A year-long collaborative design challenge bringing together local residents, public officials and local, national and international experts to develop innovative community-based solutions that will strengthen our region’s resilience to sea level rise, severe storms, flooding and earthquakes.
Meet the projects
These projects hope to inspire, catalyze action, and push us along the path to a more resilient future.
It’s no secret — climate change is real, and the threats to the Bay Area must be addressed. Sea level rise affects all of us — not just our communities who have lived by our shoreline for decades and are most vulnerable — but also our roads and airports that support each of our nine counties and 101 municipalities, the major companies that serve as the backbone of our economy, and services like water treatment and more.
There’s no time to wait — it’s time to come together and begin imagining a new future for all of us.
BLOG: Dispatches from the Challenge
Reflections on the Collaborative Design Phase, the Resilient Bay Summit, and what’s next.
Claire Bonham-Carter (Aecom), and Chris Guillard, Alexandra Zahn and Nico Wright (CMG Landscape Architecture) attended Higher Ground’s Earth Day celebration and shared local sea level rise and groundwater maps.
Students at Laurel Dell are getting ready for the San Rafael Flood Fair at Pickleweed Park on Saturday March 24th.
Students from East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy led the Field Operations Team on a tour and tested materials for their upcoming community workshop.
A Research Advisor blog contribution on examples of urban renewal in New York and San Francisco.
Ten Design opportunity sites were selected to move forward in the Collaborative Design Phase. Design Teams, communities, and local stakeholders will work together to create resilient design solutions for our rising bay.
Get ready, Bay Area! Tomorrow, we’ll be announcing where teams will be working with Bay Area communities in the Collaborative Design Phase. Here’s an update on Resilient by Design and Bay Area Challenge progress so far.
Last Tuesday, members of Resilient by Design staff and Design Teams headed to Richmond to attend the final student presentations from Kennedy High School students involved in Y-PLAN’s Resilient by Design Youth Challenge. An initiative of UC Berkeley’s Center for Cities + Schools (C+CS), Y-PLAN engages youth with experts and local stakeholders to co-design innovative and implementable solutions.
As we transition from the Collaborative Research Phase to the Collaborative Design Phase, we thought we’d take this moment to reflect back on Challenge progress since the Challenge Launch in May.
At the San Francisco Estuary Partnership (SFEP), we collaborate with partners from all levels of government, non-profits, scientists, and increasingly community advocates. This work is guided by the Estuary Blueprint--the overall plan for protecting, conserving, and restoring water quality and habitats.
An interview with Angela Tovar of The POINT in Hunts Point, Bronx, NYC. The Hunts Point Lifelines proposal outlines four “Lifelines” that demonstrate a working waterfront that could be replicated in maritime industrial areas across the region.
Growing up in Houston, I got used to watching the waters rise. I remember the bayou less than 1000 feet from my house flooding over its banks multiple times...
Click here to watch the SFEI Briefing to the Design Team Cohort at the Exploratorium during the Collaborative Research Phase's first week of research tours.
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Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge was modeled on New York's Rebuild by Design, a successful program pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation in partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Learn more at www.rebuildbydesign.org/.