Green Energy Series #20: Resiliency through Placemaking

Solar Oregon is presenting a Green Energy series – free talks for those interested in learning more about the technologies and design of zero energy buildings. Solar Oregon is a non-profit educational organization leading the way to a clean energy future. These one-hour seminars will explore solar, energy storage, and energy-efficient equipment and design. Envisioned as a follow-up to Solar Oregon’s popular Go Zero home tours, these online talks will encourage a deeper dive into the technology and allow for Q+A discussion contrasting options to aid in decision making.

All webinars will be recorded and included on Solar Oregon’s YouTube channel.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN9no-FxCRHnICdU-tbb8Eg/featured

Topic:
Join us to be inspired by resiliency projects that any city can use. The Solar Kiosk Strategy provides inspiration for models that activate the space between buildings in the public realm, with advances in equitable placemaking that is visible, tangible and accessible.
Cities need creative strategies that advance goals for climate action, emergency response, social uplift, and economic recovery. Discover an intersectional strategy that uses solar power, community engagement, urban design and sustainable economic development to add resilience. Join us to learn how a solar kiosk strategy can create a network of small-scale resiliency hubs using placemaking to support emergency response during hazard events. We’ll also demonstrate how this framework is as an intersectional strategy connecting small and large scale investments through urban design and campus and neighborhood scaled master planning to optimize resilience.
Presenters include environmental designers and planners, Heather Flint Chatto from Forage Design & Planning, and Charles Kelley from Green Urban Design, will describe how a small idea blossomed into an intersectional approach to address social and economic stability in communities challenged by climate change. This presentation offers templates to advance resiliency in any city. Its value is in activating public spaces between buildings through placemaking and energy innovation that is visible, tangible and accessible to your community to enhance resilience through low cost incremental public and private investments.

Speaker Bios:
EATHER FLINT CHATTO, LEED AP
Forage Design + Planning, LLC
Heather Flint Chatto is the founder of the Kiosk Project, Owner of Forage Design and Executive Director of the Architectural Heritage Center. She brings more than 25 years of project management, urban planning and design expertise to the team. Inspired by the kiosks seen around the world, she has planned a series of streetscape structures that can create dynamic places, add to the mix of urban support services and create an innovative model that can work for diverse communities to add resilience in emergencies as well as in everyday applications.
Heather is a two time Woman of Vision Award Winner from the Daily Journal of Commerce.

CHARLES KELLEY, LEED BD+C, AIA,
Green Urban Design LLC.
Charles Kelley is a senior architect and urban designer with more than 36 years of experience. He brings an interdisciplinary design approach to master planning that integrates community aspirations, natural resources, and financial assets. This design attitude crystallizes consensus for communities who desire projects that connect high performance buildings and open space across a campus or district. As ZGF Architects’ EcoDistrict and urban design initiative lead in the US and international markets, he applied the firm’s research and experience through his design and facilitation skills. Through Green Urban Design LLC., Charles brings the value of urban design to leverage multiple objectives across mobility, watershed, power, energy, water, land use, and open space systems that create vital and enduring low carbon community-oriented projects.

This event is free and open to everyone.

Register here.