ReVisioning History Series Overview
Thursday, May 28, 2020
@ 4 PM
free and open to the public
AIA members earn 1HSW learning unit for attending
this virtual event was hosted through zoom®
This introductory session provides an overview of the ReVisioning History series, showcasing leading voices in Santa Fe’s design and planning community. Presentations and the moderated panel discussion specifically address how informed, participatory approaches to planning, development, preservation and sustainability hold the keys to designing a better future for all.
Design for Good // Robert Innis
How do we advocate for design value, critical thinking, and innovation? How can design be more inclusive, collaborative and interdisciplinary, in order to benefit the greater good?
ReVisioning Planning // Carlos Gemora
How do we begin to develop an inclusive, long-term vision for our city that anticipates the massive technological, economic, demographic and cultural changes that are likely to occur in the next 30 years and beyond?
ReVisioning Preservation // Shawn Evans
Whose history and culture are we preserving, and whose are we excluding or erasing? How have, and how should preservation standards and design guidelines adapt to new insights and voices, to technological and demographic changes?
ReVisioning Development // Solange Serquis
How do we develop effective, equitable and sustainable models of development that satisfy the needs of housing, community and commerce? What are the opportunities for creative and varied approaches to development?
ReVisioning Sustainability // Jonah Stanford
How do we immediately begin delivering on our carbon neutrality goals? How do sustainability goals for building energy use, water and carbon emissions align with equitable development, social and economic resilience, and adaptation to a changing climate?
ABOUT THIS SESSION'S PANELISTS
Robert Innis
Partner, Rinse Design
Co-Founder, Design Corps
Widely known for his charismatic and impassioned views on design as a strategic force and agent for social change, Robert Innis applies 25 years of experience to his design and communications practice. Throughout his career, Robert has worked with national and international brands, MasterCard International, Samsung, Hewlett Packard, Beringer Vineyards, Edy’s/Dreyer’s Ice Cream, and has turned his local and regional focus on supporting leadership and collaboration among small businesses, and tackling social impact and systemic community challenges.
Carlos Gemora
Senior Land Use Planner,
City of Santa Fe
Carlos Gemora is an urban planner working to facilitate creative changes in the built environment. He currently works for the City of Santa Fe as a Senior Land Use Planner, where he advocates for long-range planning efforts. He is focused on big, invisible systems and transformative change, specifically in the areas of affordable housing, long-term infrastructure costs, and the effects of land use on sustainability, equity, and local businesses. Carlos studied regional, community-based, facilitative planning practices at Cornell University and the Evergreen State College and has previously worked in New York and Washington State. He volunteers his time with educational non-profits like Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Telluride Association.
In 2000, Jonah Standford founded NEEDBASED Inc., an award-winning and nationally recognized firm focused on sustainable housing design. As a member of the first generation of Passivhaus Consultants trained in North America, Jonah has an advanced knowledge of building systems with over a decade of successful Passive House certified net-zero projects. Prefabricated building components developed by the firm are currently being used in multi-family, cluster, and remote projects throughout the US and Canada. The work has won national awards for sustainability and design and is consistently featured in print for advancing the field of resilient architecture. Jonah continues to serve as Principal at NEEDBASED, and as chief technical officer to B.Public, a Benefit Corporation providing prefabricated building components to the public, builders, and architects, with the intention of promoting socially equitable housing.
Solange Serquis
Principal, Serquis and Associates Partner, Trailhead Development
Solange Serquis is a Registered Landscape Architect in both Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Buenos Aires, Argentina. In her work as a landscape architect and developer, she focuses on respecting, reclaiming, and creating a habitat using a natural palette of materials. Solange’s mission is to create more connective spaces that bring people together to learn, enjoy, observe, and heal. A rich interplay between indoor and outdoor spaces is a consistent theme throughout her work. Solange studied at the University of Buenos Aires, where she completed a program of architecture, agricultural science and landscape architecture with a final thesis “Healing Gardens”.
Shawn Evans, AIA
Principal, AOS Architects
Shawn Evans is the principal-in-charge of the Santa Fe office of AOS Architects, a 27-person architecture, planning, and preservation firm. He has led planning and preservation projects for the pueblos of Cochiti, Ohkay Owingeh, Santo Domingo, and Zuni, as well as Eastern State Penitentiary, Los Poblanos Historic Inn, and the Palace of the Governors. He is currently overseeing the Siler Yard housing project in Santa Fe, among other projects. A graduate of Texas A&M University and the University of Pennsylvania, he has taught architectural design and preservation philosophy at Temple, Penn, and UNM. He is a past fellow of the James Marston Fitch Foundation and has spoken at many regional and national preservation, place-making, and museum conferences. His work was featured in the 2018 Venice Biennale in an exhibit entitled, “A Future Oriented Preservation.”