How can designers respond to global changes in culture, technology and the environment? One of our solutions is to radically refigure the rural-urban relationship, as we’ve done in our masterplan for Tenmile River.
How can designers respond to global changes in culture, technology and the environment? One of our solutions is to radically refigure the rural-urban relationship, as we’ve done in our masterplan for Tenmile River.

The Alaska Design Forum features SITU in their multi-city lecture series, titled Polar Shift

August 26th 2019

Each year, the Alaska Design Forum (ADF) organizes a series of programs that promotes and broadens discussion of design and the built environment in cities throughout Alaska. This year’s series theme is titled “Polar Shift,” and aims to explore how massive global changes of our time—across human culture, technological development and our biosphere—are shifting paradigms. How should designers and architects respond to shifts in landscape, institutional thinking, climate and economics? And can they enact their own shifts in our notions of what is possible, prudent or necessary?

Founding Partner Brad Samuels will delve into SITU’s practice model and explore how our interdisciplinary approach intersects with significant changes affecting our physical environment, as well as the architecture industry itself.

Event details:
Alaska Design Forum, Polar Shift

Anchorage
Monday, September 9, 2019 at Anchorage Museum at 7:00 pm

Fairbanks
Tuesday, September 10, 2019 at Blue Loon at 6:00 pm

Juneau
Wednesday, September 11, 2019 at 360 North at 6:00 pm

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