Sustainable Dialogues III will bring individuals from the former panels to meet various Architects and Planners in the US.
Goal is to bring together the most critical voices of individuals from Asia and Latin America, who have contributed to new dialogues between catastrophic events, ecology and the role of design in reconstruction efforts with US planners & Architects contending with the local issues of Similar nature.
The 2007 Symposiums played a central role in establishing an impressive network of people from around the globe. IN this sense, disasters have provided a new Opportunity for American architects and planners to meet and converse with people from various metropolitan locales to work together in developing new alternative URBAN planning strategies.

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10:30 hrs: Registration
10:45 hrs: General Introduction

Panel 1. Disaster + Ecology
Drawing on lessons learned following the devastation caused by Tsunamis and Hurricanes in Southeast Asia and New Orleans, as well as the massive reconfiguration of urban territories in Panama following the return of the Panama Canal, what are the new limits and opportunities for re-conceptualizing urbanization as a sustainable process?

11:00 hrs
1. ANDREW CURTIS, GIS Research Laboratory, Dept. of Geography, USC (Los Angeles)
2. JOHANNES WIDODO, Director of CASA and executive editor of JSEAA (Singapore)
3. MANUEL TRUTE, Professor of Urban Planning (Panama)
4. PATAMA ROONRAKWIT, Community Architects for Shelter and Environment (CASE) (Thailand)
Moderator: TBD


12:30 hrs: Lunch

Panel 2. Reconstruction + Planning
Traditional planning has often fixated on large-scale, unchanging and ideal plans. How does the current practice of sustainable planning challenge such ideals in its attempt to implement sustainable changes?

01:30 hrs
1. ALVARO URIBE, Professor of urbanism at the University of Panama and researcher CELA (Panama)
2. MARK MILLER, President, MK Think (San Francisco)
3. JAMES DART, Principal, dArchitects (New York)
4. EDUARDO TEJEIRA DAVIS (Panama)
Moderator: KIMBERLY MEYER, Director MAK Center for Art and Architecture (Los Angeles)


03:00 hrs: Break

Panel 3. Design + Implementation
In the reconstruction of devastated areas, opportunities for massive-scale rebuilding of the built environment are often presented. What are the various ways in which sustainable design can inform not only new ways of thinking about individual buildings but their relationship to large-scale planning?

03.30 hrs
1. JEFFREY B. CAUSEY, AIA, LEED AP, Cooper Carry Architects (Atlanta)
2. MATTHEW BERMAN, Principal, workshop / apd (New York)
3. WALKER WELLS, AICP LEED AP, Global Green (Los Angeles)
4. RAISA BANFIELD, Director Projects/Participation at Center of Environmental Repercussion (Panama)
5. ALEJANDRA LILLO of GRAFT, Make it Right (Berlin/Los Angeles)
Moderator: CLIFFORD A. PEARSON, Deputy Editor, Architectural Record

5:30 hrs: Reception

All guests are welcome to stay for the 9pm performance of After the Flood. See Calender for details.