12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
About the event
November is Vancouver’s rainiest month (as you may have noticed). Rain is part of our identity; it makes Vancouver green, and provides us with one of the world’s largest sources of pure water, at low cost. But it also impedes outdoor public life. It’s not the gloom, so much as it’s the drip, drip, drip.
Are there ways to improve the quality of public life during our wet season? Better rain screens over sidewalks? How might we shelter larger public spaces, making them more usable on overcast and wet days but still warm and inviting in the sun?
Then there’s Vancouver’s landscape. This past summer, the city began its Rain City Strategy. The goal is to build environmental resilience and improve water quality in the face of climate change. Rainwater management is the centre of its sustainable Green Infrastructure Implementation plan, but it only addresses the rain that hits the ground.
Might we also adjust some of our landscape preferences? Fewer trimmed hedges and acres of expensively trimmed grass? More beautiful, drought-tolerant native plants?
To learn how Vancouver could re-design itself to create more sheltered public space and foster urban vitality all year round, we welcome landscape architect Jeff Cutler of Space2place along with Eleanor Arkin and Haley Roeser of frida&frank. As always, feel free to bring your lunch!
Location: Room 7000 - SFU Harbour Centre
49.284512, -123.111602
Room 7000 - SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
Canada