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EDRA55 Mobile Sessions
EDRA55 Portland invites you to learn first hand how Portland, OR exemplifies the conference theme, 'Human-Centric Environments'. This year EDRA55 Portland | Human-Centric Environments is excited to include Mobile Sessions in the conference program. These sessions will provide attendees with a place-based experience and include an overview of important urban interventions and community engagement projects in and around the City of Portland, and showcase projects by local groups working to advance human-centric environments in all its forms.
Registration for mobile sessions is open. You may register here. To edit an existing registration, please sign into your account on www.edra.org. When logged in as the member, navigate to the manage profile page and select "Event Registrations." Click on the pencil icon to edit the registration. Modify the ticket option as necessary and proceed to check out.
MOBILE SESSION 1: Sustaining Infill (4 HRS)
June 22, 2024 - 2:00-6:00pm
Session Hosts
Mark Fretz, Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Oregon, Portland, OR Interim Co-Director, Institute for Health in the Built Environment
Justin Fowler, Director, Portland Architecture Program, Department of Architecture, University of Oregon, Portland, OR
Abstract
Portland is a city rich with infill opportunities and experiments across a range of scales to support the health and social life of its communities. This session will tour three recent mixed-use infill projects in Downtown and Northeast Portland that foreground sustainable performance and innovative material use: the PAE Living Building (ZGF Architects), Albina Yard (LEVER Architecture), and Mississippi Workshop (Waechter Architecture). Here, participants will explore what it means to design and operate the world’s first developer-driven Living Building, and to experience first-hand the tectonic, environmental, and spatial affordances of cross-laminated timber construction and the “forest to frame” processes that support this work. The tour will begin Downtown and will end in the Northeast, with transportation via the MAX Yellow Line. Additional projects will be highlighted along the way, including a recent co-housing project by Beebe Skidmore Architects. At the conclusion of the tour, there will be an opportunity for a social gathering over coffee in the courtyard of the Mississippi building.
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MOBILE SESSION 2: SUSTAINABLE URBANISM IN PORTLAND (4 HRS)
June 22, 2024 - 2:00-6:00pm
Session Host
Nico Larco, AIA, Professor of Urban Architecture, University of Oregon, Portland, OR Director, Urbanism Next Co-Director Sustainable Cities Initiative
Abstract
Portland has been a laboratory for sustainable urban design and has a wealth of examples addressing active transportation, transit oriented design, stormwater management, ecological development, equitable design, and health-focused design. This walking tour will take participants from the South Waterfront project, through the Park Blocks and city center, and up to the Pearl District, discussing notable, sustainability-oriented design approaches throughout. This session will also introduce participants to the Sustainable Urban Design Framework developed by Prof. Larco. This framework organizes sustainability related outcomes in relation to different scales of urban design interventions and can be used as a design tool, an evaluation tool, or as a tool to assist with stakeholder engagement. This framework is the focus of the Sustainable Urban Design Handbook, recently published by Routledge.
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MOBILE SESSION 3: Understanding Place. Native American Student and Community Center (4 HRS)
June 22, 2024 - 2:00-6:00pm
Session Host
Lynn Paxson, Professor of Architecture, Iowa State University
Abstract
This Mobile Session will tour the Native American Student and Community Center (NASCC) at Portland State University. NASCC's mission is to provide a location where Indigenous students connect to other students, faculty, staff, and community members in an inclusive and supportive environment. The Center welcomes the greater Indigenous Community to PSU's campus, provide opportunities for shared learning and understanding. The Portland area is home to one of the largest urban Indigenous American populations in the nation, 40,000 strong. NASCC, which recently celebrated its 20th Anniversary, is in large part due to the efforts of PSU Indigenous students who proposed, lobbied, fought, and fundraised for this site to support Indigenous students and the surrounding Indigenous communities. A repurposed traffic triangle located just north of the I-405 entrance, the site’s design transformed a “found space” into an important community hub. Participants will be able to see and experience the range of interior spaces, exterior gathering spaces, and a garden of Indigenous plants. The Mobile Session will include design professionals, artists, managers, former Indigenous students, and current Indigenous students who created this visionary project and continue to maintain its vibrancy.
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MOBILE SESSION 4: Exploring Trauma-Informed Design at Parrott Creek (4 HRS)
June 22, 2024 - 2:00-6:00pm
Session Hosts
Ameyalli Mañon-Ferguson, Cultural Ecology Program Manager, Parrott Creek Child & Family Services
Elisandra Garcia, Director of Engagement / Project Designer, Eldorado
Abstract
Parrott Creek, an 80-acre natural site, is an alternative to incarceration for adjudicated youth in Oregon - one that seeks to create a trauma-informed environment and help break unhealthy cycles. It is also home to the Cultural Ecology Program, an Indigenous land stewardship project, the overriding goal of which is to engage with and center Indigenous leadership, values, and partnerships to restore and steward the natural area for community and cultural use. Engaging the youth in their residential program and the wider community, this project works to address trauma held at the individual, community, and environmental levels. This mobile session will span across the disciplines of landscape architecture, architecture, and ecology to explore trauma-informed design as a methodology for communities and sites in need and expand one’s understanding of restorative justice.
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MOBILE SESSION 5: Understanding Portland’s response to housing deprivation through a tour of exemplary PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING (PSH) (4 HRS)
June 22, 2024 - 2:00-6:00pm
Session Hosts
Christina Bollo, Asst. Prof. of Architecture (Housing Specialization), University of Oregon
Kimberly Rollings, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
Abstract
This mobile walking tour will provide an overview of Portland’s plan to end housing deprivation and visit four exemplary Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) projects in Portland’s Pearl District and Old Town. PSH delivers affordable long-term housing with integrated support services to people who have experienced chronic housing deprivation and has been associated with improved health outcomes, lower emergency service and healthcare use, and increased perceived levels of freedom, autonomy, choice, and control among residents. The number of PSH dwellings in the United States has nearly doubled between 2007 and 2020 and these efforts have demonstrated remarkable success. For example, 99% of the 532 tenants who moved into Portland PSH in 2020 still resided in stable housing one year later. In addition to supportive housing and funding policies, successful PSH requires research and collaboration across design, housing, social service, and healthcare sectors with attention to human-centered and health-promoting design. Session hosts have active and published research on PSH and wellbeing and will share their knowledge between building visits.
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