2023 FIRST ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM

INNOVATIVE URBANISM symposium

The Spokane University District Development Association (UDDA) and AIA Spokane are pleased to announce a partnership exploring the many facets of urban development. The partnership's First Annual Innovative Urbanism Symposium (IUS) will focus on innovations in housing.

Housing is a pressing problem facing the entire country. According to the National Association of Realtors, active listings for homes nationwide are down 22% with inventories in December of 2022 at the lowest level ever recorded.

Since 2008, growth in the nationwide housing inventory has seen a steady decline which has created an estimated housing gap of 5.5 million to 6.8 million housing units in the US (there were 1.6 million new construction housing starts in 2021). In this first Symposium, we will discuss how we can address the growing gap in a thoughtful, innovative, and equitable manner.

The program will feature regional experts in the economics of housing, the ecology of housing, community-informed housing design, and innovations in ownership and affordability.

IUS KEYNOTE SPEAKER SERGIO PALLERONI

Professor Sergio Palleroni is a faculty member and director of the Center for Public Interest Design in the School of Architecture at Portland State University and co-founder of PSU’s Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative. He also serves as a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions and is a founding faculty member of the federally-funded Green Building Research Lab at Portland State University. His research and fieldwork for the last two decades have been in the methods of integrating sustainable practices to improve the lives of underserved communities worldwide. He founded the BASIC Initiative, a service-learning fieldwork program. Today, the BASIC Initiative continues to serve the poor in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the U.S.

November 8-9

NOV 08
wednesday

5:00Pm-7:00pm

2023

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
SERGIO PALLERONI

5:00PM – 7:00PM
RECEPTION AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1.5 LU/HSW/APA (pending)

Steamplant Rooftop

Learn how the Center for Public Interest Design (CPID) is collaborating with a diverse set of stakeholders to address the housing crisis as well as how to re-imagine the role of architects, communities, and even our government. CPID seeks deeper solutions that address not only housing needs but also the systemic problems that are at the root of the housing crisis.

NOV 09
thursday

9:00am-3:00pm

  • 9:00AM – 10:30AM

    Spokane Central Library, Event Space A/B

    How can communities encourage the development of more affordable housing that meets market requirements, sparks innovations in design, fills the holes around the “missing middle” (workforce housing), and addresses the growing homelessness crisis?

Speakers

1.5 LU/HSW/APA (pending)

KEVIN KELLOGG, GORMAN AND COMPANY, — PLACEMAKING AND SUSTAINABILITY

BEN MARITZ, GREAT EXPECTATIONS — MICRO-UNIT HOUSING

CRUZE THOMPSON, RURAL RESOURCES COMMUNITY ACTION — RURAL HOUSING

10:30AM BREAK

  • 11:30AM – 1:00PM

    Spokane Central Library, Event Space A/B

    What does it mean to approach design from a trauma-informed lens? Come learn how three housing and homelessness shelter developers in the region are working to build housing and community that responds to issues around racism, generational abuse, and trauma and how the resulting projects help residents to heal, feel heard, and to come home.

Speakers

1.5 LU/HSW/APA (pending)

KURT CREAGER, BRIDGE HOUSING — DESIGN JUSTICE-INFORMED HOUSING

SHARON STADELMAN AND DENA CARR, CATHOLIC CHARITIES EASTERN WASHINGTON —
HOUSING SHELTER DESIGN

  • 1:30PM – 3:00PM

    Spokane Central Library, Event Space A/B

    Come hear three innovative approaches to housing development and design that work to build culturally responsive projects that also change our economic systems to be more inclusive, diverse, an democratic.

Speakers

1.5 LU/HSW/APA (pending)

JEFF ‘JD’ DADE, AYA

GRACE KIM AND MIKE MARIANO, SCHEMATA WORKSHOP — URBAN COHOUSING DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

JESS ZIMBABWE, ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS – NONPROFIT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

REGISTRATION

$150 REGISTRATION FEE
$40 STUDENT RATE

Scholarships available upon request. Please email info@spokaneudistrict.org for more information.

Registration

$150 REGISTRATION FEE
$40 STUDENT RATE

Scholarships available upon request. Please email info@spokaneudistrict.org for more information.

If you need accessibility assistance during the event, please email us to set that up. We are happy to accommodate.

SPONSORS

If your company is interested in helping to sponsor this great event please email AIA Spokane