On Friday, April 16, at 12pm PST, CCA Architecture and Autodesk Technology Centers will co-present a panel discussion, “The Future of Learning: Industry and Academia Convergence,” to launch the new Academic Alliance.

How do the voices of children, youth, and community members shape our neighborhoods?

Join us and participate in a discussion with a panel of community engagement practitioners to delve into San Francisco Planning’s approach to engagement, detail how we’ve adapted our engagement during Stay at Home Order, and share our successes engaging with children and youth in partnership with Y-PLAN.

CCA Architectural students will share projects from the fall semester Buoyant Ecologies: Urban Ecotones at Islais Creek Studio and suggest scalable approaches to piloting a community demonstration project in Bayview Hunters Point with Malcom X Academy 4th grade students.

Fourth grade scholars from Malcolm X Academy will be in dialogue with students from the CCA Architectural Ecologies Lab discussing the challenges, opportunities and hopes for their friends and families in the Bayview neighborhood surrounding Islais Creek.

Alongside growing interest in floating communities as a model for resilient development, there is an aggravating threat to the existing floating communities that historically inhabit coastal zones. This talk, the second in the Buoyant Futures series of conversations hosted by the Architectural Ecologies Lab, will present the history and current challenges facing houseboat communities of San Francisco Bay, examining their constitutive role in formation of urban commons along the waterfront. This will be a precursory presentation for the Upper Division Interdisciplinary Studio (UDIST) course offered at CCA in the fall of 2018.

Around the world, political instability, environmental threats, and housing challenges are leading many to turn to the ocean as a new frontier for building communities. This panel discussion, the first in the Buoyant Futures series of conversations hosted by the Architectural Ecologies Lab, will explore ways of living on water, motivations of desire and need, and the ecological potentials and implications of floating architecture.