The FIRST INTERSTATE BANK BUILDING A BETTER BEND 2023 LECTURE SERIES
Celebrating 50 years of Oregon's Land use laws
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Part 2: what will bend be like for our kids over the next 25 years?
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featured speakers:
Saumya Kini is an Associate Urban Designer at Walker Macy Landscape Architects in Portland. As a leader in the firm’s planning and urban design practice, she believes in the value of strong design thinking to support local and regional planning work. Her urban design work in Bend includes involvement in recent phases of Northwest Crossing, the Core Area Plan, Southeast Area Plan, and Stevens Road Tract Concept Plan, through which she has learned much about the unique landscape and communities of Bend and Central Oregon. Beyond her home state, Saumya’s experiences with a diversity of cultures, places, and people around the world have taught her to approach problem-solving with sensitivity and openness in projects with high public interest. She is passionate about strengthening community resilience and advancing environmental and social justice through collaborative planning, visioning, and design. Born and raised in Oregon, she spent much of her childhood puttering about outdoors and developing a deep love and respect for the elegant designs that occur naturally in the landscape. Saumya holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Oregon and a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from Portland State University.
Blaine Merker is an entrepreneur, strategist and designer working at the forefront of street and city design for two decades. He cofounded Park(ing) Day in 2005 and led Rebar, an art and design studio based in San Francisco that shaped the practice of tactical urbanism and hands-on community engagement. In 2014 he started the U.S. offices of Gehl, an urban design consultancy based in Copenhagen which, over its 40-year history, has helped to transform New York City’s Times Square and hundreds of cities globally into thriving, people-first spaces. As a partner and managing director at Gehl he oversees the company’s work in the Americas. His writing on social mixing and open-source, participatory design is published in Next City and in the book Insurgent Public Space. He studied landscape architecture at UC Berkley and graduated from Reed College. He is originally from Bend, Oregon.
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PART 3: BEYOND THE BEYOND: PREPARING FOR A WILD FUTURE
FALL 2023 | DATE & LOCATION TBD
SPEAKERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON!
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How will our lives and our city be changed by a warming climate, population growth, less water and hotter summers? And how can we effectively plan to keep and maintain our region’s beauty and quality of life? Being resilient and seeking out opportunities is what made our state great 50 years ago, and what we strive to be now and far into the future. Learn what you can do to help ensure generations to come can continue to enjoy our city’s beauty.
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