Name: [FOCUS TRACK] BUILDING THE STORIES OF PLACE
Start: 2025-05-19T15:00:00-0700
End: 2025-05-19T16:30:00-0700

Monday May 19, 2025 15:00 - 16:30 PDT

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: Eva & Marc Stern Grand Hall

Focus Tracks are 90-minute sessions. Five presenters each give an 8-minute presentation from their specific context, tailored to fit the session topic. This is followed by a moderated discussion and Q&A. Three Focus Tracks run concurrently, repeated on 19 and 20 May. This Focus Track focuses on how design choices serve as vessels for past, present, and future narratives of places, and considers how architects and designers engage with communities to ensure the authenticity of the stories being told through their work.

Moderators

Daniel Payne

Principal, AEA Consulting

Daniel's background merges architecture, design, and business; since joining AEA, Daniel has applied his skills to strategic and business planning for more than 150 clients, including:Developing financial models and business plans for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center... Read More →

Speakers

Ron Elad

Partner, Buro Happold

Ron Elad is a partner at Buro Happold with expertise in project leadership, complex geometry, computational design and fabrication.Ron leads multi-disciplinary engineering teams on projects that require cross-office collaboration where Buro Happold is the prime consultant. He also... Read More →

Regina Myer

President, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership

Regina Myer is President of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership (DBP), a not-for-profit local development corporation that serves as the primary champion for Downtown Brooklyn as a world-class business, cultural, educational, residential, and retail destination.Until 2016, Regina served... Read More →

Chris Obayda

Principal, Grimshaw

Mark Thomann

Director, WILDING X

WILDING X WHY collaborates with a global network of diverse practitioners, drawing upon the expertise of horticulturalists, historians, geologists, and meteorologists, and sparking new ideas in the company of artists, activists, and community members. Through in-depth investigations... Read More →

Michael Volk

Principal, Global Co-lead for Culture + Museums, Gensler

With more than 30 years of experience designing, leading, and executing innovative architecture and urbanism projects in the U.S. and abroad, Michael brings his passion for design and his expertise as a forward-thinking and collaborative leader to his role as a global leader of Gensler's... Read More →

Claire Weisz

Principal, WXY architecture + urban design

Claire Weisz, RA, FAIA, Hon. RAIC, is a founding partner of WXY architecture + urban design (WXY), a New York–based architecture and planning studio recognized for its community-centered work. She has led major projects including the capital expansion of Storm King Art Center, the... Read More →

Monday May 19, 2025 15:00 - 16:30 PDT
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion: Eva & Marc Stern Grand Hall

Convening sessions, Focus track

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