Five years after Hurricane Sandy, top-down flood resilience remains elusive for Red Hook, Brooklyn. This workshop looks at a new bottom up approach which combines social and technical methods to achieve community based resilience design.

Please join us for a workshop and demonstration using advanced drone mapping technology and learn how communities can digitally map their own resilience. The drone demonstration will be lead by Professor Alex Washburn of Stevens Institute of Technology who is working with youth in Red Hook. In addition, Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), OLIN, and ARUP will discuss the resilience strategies developed for the award-winning NYCHA Red Hook Houses, the largest public housing development in Brooklyn.

The goal of this workshop to demonstrate a globally scalable, locally replicable method for communities to develop, test and ultimately advance their own flood resilience adaptation strategies. The first step is to engage members of a community to generate a point cloud of PHODAR data along with social surveys to create a realistic, virtual three-dimensional Digital City Model (DCM) of their neighborhood and its drainage infrastructure. Next, a hydrology model is applied to the DCM in order to identify drainage problem areas under a variety of weather and social scenarios. This information will be used by the community to identify the most pressing risks and hypothesize locally actionable solutions as adaptation designs.

Expert Panelists include:

Prof. Alex Washburn, Stevens Institute of Technology

Maria Aiolova, Co-Founder, Terreform ONE

Vincent Lee, Associate Principal | Infrastructure ARUP

Joel May, Program Manager, Disaster Durable Solutions | BASF Performance Materials

Devin Ratliff, AIA Director, Kohn Pedersen Fox

Vincent Lee, Associate Principal | Infrastructure ARUP

Karl Krause, Senior Landscape Architect, OLIN