Kristina Hill – Floating options: Creative adaptation in cities
Thursday 20 July 2017, 6:00 – 7.30pm
The Piano, 156 Armagh Street
Doors, bar and coat check open from 5:00pm
Kristina Hill is Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Environmental Planning and Urban Design at Berkeley.
Her current research focus is urban resilience in the changing global environment, particularly around climate change, sea level rise, and development to enhance a city’s ability to recover from disaster events.
Hill will discuss her recent work in the San Francisco Bay Area – a region that, like Christchurch, is challenged by a rising water table in a seismic zone.
She’ll share strategies for addressing these issues and describe recent engineering experiments used in geologic hazard areas in California.
How could Christchurch adapt to the challenges and opportunities presented by climate change? What new designs and responses might work for the red zone?
Watch a 25 minute YouTube video to learn more about Hill’s research.
Hybrid Edges: A Typology of Coastal Adaptation Strategies, June 2014(External link)
https://engage.regeneratechristchurch.nz/christchurch-conversations