Design Charrette Registration is Open!
ReVision: The Future of Santa Fe Style // Session Four
ReStyle: The Next 25 Years of Santa Fe Style
Saturday, March 15th, 1:00 - 5:00 pm // Santa Fe Convention Center - Second Floor, Nambe Room
Since 1912, our regional architectural style has been overwhelmingly successful in accomplishing its explicit goals of promoting tourism and economic development. Up to the last few decades, this style project was meant to support Santa Fe’s future, project its growth, and create new urban forms.
However, emerging internal and external challenges over a century later present the need for transformational strategies that better satisfy promoting tourism and economic development - if indeed those still are Santa Fe’s primary goals.
If we are to reimagine the Santa Fe Style, what might be the underlying needs and values of, and visions for, the City and region that a reimagined style might serve? How might Santa Fe recover its adaptive design creativity and visions of the future to serve today’s and tomorrow’s populations and environments?
In this two-part design charrette, we will explore speculative design thinking to envision possible futures for Santa Fe's built environment and to create artifacts that inspire others to do the same.
The suggested donation for this event is $5-10. Registration is required to attend and will be capped at 40 participants. Click below to register!
This event is sponsored by the City of Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department.
City of Santa Fe Heat Island Study
While it’s hard to believe in February, we all know Santa Fe is heating up and is affecting the city and residents in challenging ways. Understanding this trend is important for professionals engaged in building, landscape, and street design, water conservation, community organizing, public health, and more.
Last year, FASF board member Allison Long helped the City of Santa Fe conduct a heat study through NOAA’s Heat Watch program. This program provided funding for heat sensing tools, training for volunteers, and analysis after the study was completed.
The study was conducted on July 28, 2024 and results were released last fall. This study will serve as a baseline moving forward to document Santa Fe’s changing environmental conditions.
View the report by CAPA Strategies here and the interactive map here.
FRIENDS OF FRIENDS
This year marks the 20th Anniversary of Santa Fe’s designation as a UNESCO Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art. Join the City’s kick off celebration on February 28th at the Convention Center. Click below to secure your spot.
The Homewise Livability Speaker Series is headed to Albuquerque! Join Heather Worthington, principal at Urban 3 and former Director of Long-Range Planning in Minneapolis, for the kick off event, “Addressing the Housing Crisis: Lessons from Minneapolis.” Click below for tickets.
ON OUR MINDS THIS MONTH
Is a backyard apartment boom the solution to our housing shortage? (Bloomberg)
What did the “New Generation of Architecture” look like in 1961? (The Architect’s Newspaper)