The first one is the Watershed+ artist in residence
Rachel Duckhouse who will be talking about her work with the City of Calgary's
Watershed + program. She will be joined for the talk by
Twyla Hutchison, a Water Resources Engineer with Infrastructure Planning at the City of Calgary. Twyla is involved with river monitoring and forecasting, emergency response planning, design of erosion control and emergency mitigation as well as other development in the river valley. Together they will talk about Rachel’s work,
data representation,
collaboration between engineers and artists and complementarities of
disciplines.
Date: Thursday,
October 24
Time:
6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: Faculty of Environmental Design
Kasian Gallery, Room 2145
Professional Faculties building, University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4
For the other talk we are very pleased to welcome
Kevin Robert Perry from
Urban Rain|Design for his first public presentation in Calgary. We first came across his work in a post in P
runed.
Kevin will present his approach to
green infrastructure visioning and planning developed through experience at the City of Portland’s
Sustainable Stormwater Program. His innovative techniques to retrofit the urban fabric with sustainable stormwater management uses the landscape to not only manage stormwater, but to also create highly successful urban spaces.
RSVP to charles.blanc@calgary.ca
Date: Friday
25th October
Time:: Coffee and pastries from 7.30, talk from 8 till 8.45 AM
Location: Bow Room @ the Water Centre
625 25 Ave SE, Calgary, Alberta T2G 4K8
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