Rapid Decarbonization: Power + Place

Filmed live at AIA Seattle’s 2022 Practicing Equity & Advocacy in Rapid Decarbonization summit, keynote presenter Bryan Lee Jr., Founder/Director of Colloqate Design, explores the privilege and power structures that have defined injustice in the built environment from America’s inception. Citing historical examples, Bryan looks at the design justice movement and how the theory of practice continually advocates for the dismantling of power ecosystems that use architecture and design to create injustice throughout the built environment. Bryan poignantly examines these issues through the lens of environmental justice.

Presenter:
Bryan Lee Jr., Founder/Director, Colloqate Design | Architect and Design Justice Advocate

Rapid Decarbonization: Advocating to Eliminate Embodied Carbon

Filmed live at AIA Seattle’s 2022 Practicing Equity & Advocacy in Rapid Decarbonization summit, this session explores significant research, opportunities, and strategies for reducing atmospheric carbon and impacts on the health and well-being of our ecosystems at-large. Presenters examine small resource-based economies, sustainable forestry initiatives and practices, and data and policy interventions that examine the responsibility of the industry and government, advocate for systems-change, and support the elimination of embodied carbon from the built environment.

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Moderator: Alex Ianchenko Assoc. AIA | Researcher/Designer, The Miller Hull Partnership

Rapid Decarbonization: Equitable Life-Cycles in Healthy Materials Sourcing

We must take a whole life cycle approach to healthy material sourcing that considers the spectrum of upstream and downstream impacts of decarbonization and supports equitable outcomes for communities.

Filmed live at AIA Seattle’s 2022 Practicing Equity & Advocacy in Rapid Decarbonization summit, this session investigates healthy building strategies, labor and supply chain implications, materials toxicity and chemical concerns that affect the lived experiences of users. Presenters also explore historical and current community design practices that either inhibit or lead to healthier buildings.

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Moderated by Mark Vossler | President, Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility

Rapid Decarbonization: The Value of Responsible Building

High costs can be viewed as a significant barrier to decarbonization strategies. But across project scales, we must build responsibly based on what can be afforded and consider how the investments we make now can have the most equitable long-term impacts.

Filmed live at AIA Seattle’s 2022 Practicing Equity & Advocacy in Rapid Decarbonization summit, this session explores research on affordable housing strategies, examples of all-electric systems implementation in low-income communities, decision-making processes to encourage owner/developer buy-in, and our collaborative responsibilities to our communities and environmental stewardship.

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Moderator: Rico Quirindongo AIA | Acting Director, City of Seattle Office of Planning and Community Development