Adriana Chavez on Resilient Regions, Cities & Communities in Latin America
On 22-February, Adriana Chavez shared Towards Resilient Regions, Cities & Communities in Latin America in the third installment of the 2022 Spring Urbanism Lecture Series, co-hosted by the City Design & Development Program (CDD), SMArchS Urbanism Program, and Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT.
Adriana Chavez is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Adriana is the co-founder of ORU, Office for Urban Resilience, a design think tank that focuses on urban design and landscape infrastructure. She has been a consultant for the Interamerican Development Bank (IDB) at the Urban Development and Housing (HUD) within the Emergent and Sustainable Cities Program in Mexico. She has also worked as an urban resilience advisor for Mexico City’s Resilience Office and collaborated closely with the CDMX Chief Resilience Officer Arnoldo Matus, participating on the creation of Mexico City’s Resilience Strategy, leading urban planning and mobility initiatives.
Adriana’s practice, Oficina de Resiliencia Urbana (ORU), specializes in the development of resilient urban landscapes and infrastructures. Their work is a response to the climate crisis and the unprecedented impact of humanity on the earth’s resources. Adriana makes her position clear, “The climate we experience in the future depends on the decisions we make today…this requires transformational change”. Examining the disproportionate future impact of climate change on Latin America, Adriana calls for an urgent urban paradigm shift.
By Joris Komen, Norman B. (1938) and Muriel Leventhal Fellow, Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism.
