Conversations About Landscape: Artistic Practice Toward Urban Resilience

What happens when two artists team up with two scientists to engage the public with the slow-moving disaster of climate change?

Composer Byron Au Yong and architect/designer Sara Dean spent a year embedded with environmental engineer Mark Stacey and environmental policy expert Mark Lubell. The researchers are part of a project called RISER (Resilient Infrastructure as Seas Rise), which studies sea level rise in the Bay Area, using computer models and other methods to predict future flooding, impacts on transportation systems, effects of coastal infrastructure, and the complexities of regional decision-making.

Join a lively conversation about climate resilience, and the artists’ responses to it, including group performance and iconographic design.