CONFERENCE FORMAT
The keynote lectures will include Antoine Picon, Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and Law Alon Tal, Professor of Environmental Policy and whose talks will address the relationship between water, technology, and society.
The conference talks are divided into three thematic sessions:
Collecting – water supply and storage
Converting – water quality
Distributing – water delivery networks
Each session is further divided into two groups:
- engineers, social and natural scientists will describe their respective methodologies
- landscape architects and urban designers will present water focused case studies
A moderated panel discussion will follow each session.
Conference participants were asked to consider the following questions within their papers and discussion:
- What is the definition and position of technology relative to your discipline and approach to water issues?
- Highlight the methodological approach specific to your discipline / practice in relation to your session’s theme?
- How does technology influence the built environment and its water infrastructural systems? How does it promote design innovation that deals with water shortage or conversely, efficiency?
- How does technology modify the behavior or cultural perception of water systems and its users/stakeholders?
- In the next few decades, how do you envision the position of water technologies and infrastructure within the built/urban environment?
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OUT OF WATER CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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FRIDAY, APRIL 01, 2011
09:00 – 09:10
Dean’s Welcome
Richard Sommer, Daniels Faculty
09:10 – 09:40
Introduction to Conference
Liat Margolis and Aziza Chaouni, Daniels Faculty
09:40 – 10:40
Keynote Lecture
Water, Technology and Society: A Historical Overview
Antoine Picon, Harvard Graduate School of Design
10:40 – 11:40
Keynote Lecture
Technological Optimism as an Antidote to Water Scarcity
Alon Tal, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology
11:40 – 12:30
Discussion
Moderators: Robert Levit, Jane Wolff
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch break
Session 1 : COLLECTING / water supply and storage
13:30 – 14:00
Water-Conserving Design: A Multi-Scale Water Budget Approach for Arid Regions
James L. Wescoat, Jr., School of Architecture+Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
14:00 – 14:30
Retrofitting the West: Burbank and the Soft Path of Water
Hadley Arnold, Arid Lands Institute, Woodbury University
14:30 – 15:00
Micro-urban communities and water-made landscapes: critical refugia, technologies and coexistence in Central South Australia
Gini Lee, Queensland University of Technology
15:00 – 15:15
Break
15:15 – 15:45
Water Out of Air: Canopy Design for the Sheikh Zayed National Museum
Kai Babetzki and Matthias Schuler, Transsolar KlimaEngineering
15:45 – 16:15
Building-Integrated Solar absorption for Water Reuse & Thermal Control
Kristin Malone, Center for Architecture Science & Ecology (CASE)
16:15 – 16:45
Taragalte Ecolodge: Regenerating the Oasis Edge in the Draa Valley, Morocco
Aziza Chaouni and Liat Margolis, Daniels Faculty
16:45 – 17:30
Discussion
Moderator: Robert Wright, Daniels Faculty
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SATURDAY, APRIL 02, 2011
Session 2 : CONVERTING / water quality
9:00 – 9:30
From Innovations to Products – From Water Research to Water Technologies Management of Scarce Water Resources and Development of Water Technologies for Sustainable Water Supply with Adequate Water Quality
Eilon Adar, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Zuckerberg Institute for Water
9:30 – 10:00
An Innovative Institutional Model to Scale-up the Implementation of Low-cost, Appropriate Water Treatment Technologies in the Developing World
Camille Dow Baker, Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST)
10:00 – 10:30
Greening the Desert at All Cost, Hyper-Conversion in the Arabic Peninsula
Virginie Picon-Lefebvre, Laboratoire Infrastructure Architectue Territoire (LIAT), Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais
10:30 – 10:45
Break
10:45 – 11:15
Wastewater Treatment as Urban Park for Wadi Hanifah in Riyad, Saudi Arabia
Drew Wensley, Moriyama & Teshima and Alan Travers, Buro Happold
11:15 – 11:45
Design With Climate – Case Studies on Built Form in Egypt
Walter H. Kehm, LANDinc.
11:45 – 12:15
Xeritown: closed-loop water urbanism in Dubai, UAE
Farid Esmaeil, X-Architects
12:15 – 13:00
Discussion
Moderator: Ted Kesik, Daniels Faculty
13:00 – 14:00
Lunch break
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Session 3 : DISTRIBUTING / water delivery networks
14:00 – 14:30
Low pressure drip irrigation technology in the context of water management in West and Central Africa
Lennart Woltering, GFA Consulting Group GmbH and Dov Pasternak, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
14:30 – 15:00
The Economics of Regenerative Design: Our Water Future
Anthony M. Watanabe, Innovolve Group, Canada
15:00 – 15:30
Transforming Traditional Water Canals in the Qattara/Jimi Oasis in Al Ain, UAE
Felipe Correa, Somatic Collaborative
15:30 – 15:45
Break
15:45 – 16:15
A New Model for Integrated Agricultural Urbanism in the Jordan River Basin
Fadi Masoud, Harvard Graduate School of Design
16:15 – 16:45
Water Strategies of Eco-City Master Plans in India and Saudi Arabia
Byron Stigge, Buro Happold, New York
16:45 – 17:30
Discussion
Moderator: Alissa North, Daniels Faculty
17:30 – 18:00
Closing Comments
Aziza Chaouni, Mary Lou Lobsinger, Liat Margolis, Daniels Faculty
18:00 – 20:00
Reception, drinks and refreshments, Daniels Faculty