Water, Infrastructure, and Coastal Resilience

Richard K. Norton is a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He also holds a joint appointment as a professor in the Program in the Environment through U-M’s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and School for Environment and Sustainability. Norton teaches and conducts research in the areas of planning law, sustainable development, land use and environmental planning, and coastal area management. Most of his research has focused on the challenges of managing coastal shorelands along the Laurentian Great Lakes. He also contributes actively to public service through community-engaged research and teaching, and by serving on the planning law committee of the Michigan Association of Planning (MAP).

Jono Bentley Sturt is a lecturer in architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where he teaches at the pre-architecture, undergraduate, and graduate levels. He also is a co-founder of Section Cut in San Francisco, founder of the design studio HTCHBCK, and frequent contributor to Archolab, an award-winning architectural research collaborative. He has worked at both domestic and international architecture firms.

Steven Mankouche is a registered architect and a professor of architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Mankouche is a co-founder of ARCHOLAB (Architectural Research Collaborative) whose work focuses on two primary disciplinary concerns: the ability for people to construct their own environment, and understanding the relationship between history, technology, materials, and labor.

Kathy Veliov is a leader in practice-based design research and education, advancing environmentally responsive, technologically enabled, and climate positive built environments through speculation, prototyping, and visualization for responsive architectural material assemblies, resilient multifunctional urban infrastructures, and territorial practices for decarbonization.

María Arquero de Alarcón is an associate professor of architecture and urban and regional planning at the University of Michigan Taubman College. Her work advances urban strategies promoting cultural and environmental values in territories under conditions of scarcity.

Margaret Dewar is professor emerita of urban and regional planning and special advisor with UM’s Poverty Solutions. Her research analyzes how planners can address issues facing cities that have experienced substantial population and employment loss. She studies remaking cities following abandonment, strengthening deteriorated neighborhoods, and reducing the harm residents experience from disinvestment in their
city.