NYC: Urban Design Innovation within Air Quality and Urban Heat Island Effect
Solving city challenges and Pitch Finale of Copenhagen Open Innovation Call
11/10/2019
Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/10/2019
5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Location
AIA New York, Center for Architecture
Categories
Across the world cities are trying to tackle the increasing health impacts from air pollution an urban heat island effect.
Every year, New York City experiences an average of 450 heat-related emergency department visits, 150 heat-related hospital admissions, and 13 heatstroke deaths. The City also averages about 115 excess deaths from natural causes exacerbated by extreme heat annually.
From an urban design perspective much can be done to mitigate and to adapt to climate change related health impacts – not least in terms of developing solutions that are co-beneficial and aesthetic at the same time.
During the summer of 2019, the City of New York teamed up with Access Cities, a global alliance for sustainable urban development, to organize an Open Innovation Call on Air Quality and Urban Heat Island Effect as a call to action.
Contestants were requested to propose solutions for a specific neighborhood in NYC with some of the highest rates of heat-related illness and mortality and known air quality vulnerability issues.
This Archtober-affiliated event will highlight and celebrate the winner of the Open Innovation Call together with other innovative initiatives in New York, and internationally, which are tackling these challenges.
Join us for an enlightening evening featuring curated expert discussions and exhibitions.
Program
5.30 pm Registration & Refreshments
6.00pm Welcome
Klaus Lehn Christensen, Director, Danish Cleantech Hub
6.10pm Opening keynote – State of international research on urban Air Quality and Urban Heat Island Effect
Jeffrey Raven, FAIA, LEED BD+C
RAVEN A+U – Architecture + Urban Design LLC
Director – Graduate Urban Design, New York Institute of Technology (NYIT-Manhattan)
6.20pm NYC specific initiatives
Findings from ULI study: A Vision for a Greener, Healthier, Cooler Gowanus: Strategies to Mitigate Urban Heat Island Effect
Jeffrey Raven, FAIA, LEED BD+C / RAVEN A+U – Architecture + Urban Design LLC /
Director – Graduate Urban Design, New York Institute of Technology (NYIT-Manhattan)
6.50pm Access Cities Open Innovation Call Track 2 Winner, Gaia Technologies LLP, presentation of NYC site-specific proposal
Paul Mankiewitz, CEO, Gaia Technologies LLP
7.15pm Curated panel discussion (Format: Responding to the two presentations)
Andrew Rudd, Urban Environment Officer, UN Habitat
Fernando Ortiz, Sustainable Designer & Climate Preparedness and Resiliency Organizer, The Point
Dr. Christian Braneon, NASA Goddard, Columbia Institute / CTO, Hummingbird
Kizzy Charles-Guzman, Deputy Director, NYC Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resilience
Moderator: Janice Barnes, Managing Partner, Climate Adaptation Partners
7.45pm Call to action
Eddie Bautista, Executive Director, NYC Environmental Justice Alliance (tbc)
7.55 pm Exhibition by Access Cities Open Innovation Call Finalists & Reception
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