Brought to you by The Common Ground Mentorship Committee, a collaboration between the AIA WHV Chapter and AIA WHV Architectural Foundation, Inc.
Presenter: Naomi Hersson-Ringskog, founder of Dept of Small Interventions (DoSI)
Date:
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Time:
6:30 pm — 8:30 pm
Cost:
Free, registration required ($5.00 donation)
Credits:
1.0 LU
EVENT SCHEDULE
6:30 PM 5 minutes Welcome
6:35 PM 5 minutes Introductions
6:40 PM 50 minutes The Power of Incremental Change Presentation
7:30 PM 10 minutes Q & A
7:40 PM 5 minutes Orientation to the Common Ground Mentorship Program
7:45 PM 40 minutes Speed Networking
8:25 PM 5 minutes Closing Comments
SPEAKERS
Naomi Hersson-Ringskog, Founder, Dept of Small Interventions (DoSI)
Jieun Yang, Founder, Habitat Workshop
Brandt Knapp, co-founder, BRANDT : HAFERD
PRESENTERS
Ciro Cuono, PE, Cuono Engineering
Christina Kissel, Assoc. AIA, Project Manager, RJSA
Matthew Tether, AIA, Tether Architecture
The Power of Incremental Change
It is easy to forget the power that each of us holds. It is, after all, this power united with the consistency of everyday small steps and like-minded individuals that create meaningful change in our communities.
Join us for a dynamic presentation from Naomi Hersson-Ringskog founder of Dept of Small Interventions (DoSI), along with her collaborators Jieun Yang founder of Habitat Workshop, and Brandt Knapp co-founder of Knapp:Hafred, as they present ‘Reimagine Lake Street Corridor’ a project located in Newburgh, NY.
The presentation will highlight how grassroots efforts can make a difference in the community, explain the value of being civically engaged, and how these projects can help foster a professional network for future work and/or collaboration.
Orientation to The Common Ground Mentorship Program
Learn more about the volunteer mentorship program, Common Ground, created to support the local AEC community and allied industries by providing a forum to lean, give back, and share knowledge. The goal is to do this through the use of our collective creativity to help our local communities.
We have designed this volunteer mentorship program with a framework to guide each group of Mentors and Mentees. The framework will enable participants to tailor their communication, interaction, and achievements based on the pair’s determined goals. A key component of this is a flexible schedule allowing those with limited time the ability to participate. Mentees will have the opportunity to lead the agreed-upon creative collaboration as well as seek advice and listen to guidance from their Mentor. Mentors will listen, advise, provide constructive feedback, and participate in the agreed-upon creative collaboration.
Speed Networking
Wrap up the evening by connecting with other like-minded professionals in our Virtual Speed Networking event. Participants will be placed in breakout rooms to causally get to know one another.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Naomi Hersson-Ringskog
is the founder of Dept of Small Interventions (DoSI), a Newburgh based non-profit, where she leads place-based projects to amplify cultural assets, galvanize collaborations, and build social infrastructure. DoSI uses an organic participatory approach that integrates arts, culture, and history into community development and planning goals. DoSI projects are simple, resourceful, and creative solutions that can ultimately lead to increased capacity and meaningful change.
Jieun Yang
is the founder of Habitat Workshop, an architecture and urban design practice promoting design as a framework for positive changes in communities. They combine research and practice to continuously refine ways of knowing, asking, learning and making through cross-disciplinary collaborations and experiments. Their work explores the extraordinary potential in the ordinary and embraces constraints as the foundation for a creative solution. They create spaces, objects, and interactions that activate human connections, build resiliency and reveal the intrinsic value of a place.
Brandt Knapp,
co-founder of BRANDT : HAFERD, is a Harlem-based architecture and design studio. Their body of work includes academic research and a range of built projects from the domestic to the workplace to the urban. Performance and Play, Abstract vs. Built Form, Nature and Territory, and the Individual vs. Collective are some of the interests explored in the practice. The studio has been exploring how interests in public space can operate at multiple scales through experimental projects since 2012.