Envision Resilience announces Lewiston and Auburn, Maine, as partner cities and university teams for the 2026 ENVISION RESILIENCE CHALLENGE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2026 BOSTON—Envision Resilience announced today the participating cities and university teams selected for the 2026 Envision Resilience Challenge, an interdisciplinary design and research initiative that models the cross-sector and intergenerational collaboration needed to address community-level climate challenges. Beginning in September 2026 and continuing through spring 2027, graduate and undergraduate students […]
Envision Resilience Announces Second Year of National Design Studio Grants
Envision Resilience Announces Second Year of National Design Studio Grants Funding available to graduate and undergraduate architecture, planning and landscape architecture studio courses focused on adaptive climate design BOSTON—Building on the success of the inaugural National Design Studio Grants, Envision Resilience announced today a second year of funding available to schools running design studios focused […]
Envision Resilience Makes National Design Studio Awards to Eight University Teams Exploring Climate Adaptation through Architecture, Planning and Design and Community Partnerships
Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025 BOSTON – Envision Resilience has awarded funding to eight universities to support design studios that will explore adaptive solutions to climate change in rural, urban and mid-size communities, the organization announced today. Universities that will receive the inaugural Envision Resilience National Design Studio Grant are Mississippi State University, University of Arizona, […]
Envision Resilience Announces National Design Studio Grants to Support Graduate and Undergraduate Research in Community-Centric, Adaptive Climate Design
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEWednesday, Sept. 10, 2025 BOSTON—Building on its work to advance innovative planning and design in the face of climate change, Envision Resilience announced today a new national grant program that will award funding to university-affiliated design studios to support curricula centered on adaptive design solutions to the challenges of a warming planet in […]
Envision Resilience Launches 2025 Midcoast Maine Challenge with Local Design and Art Partnerships
BATH, Maine (June 25, 2025)—Envision Resilience will bring its place-based, multi-university design studio to Bath and Harpswell, Maine, this fall, pairing university students with community leaders to develop creative ideas for communities facing rising sea levels and challenges related to housing, stormwater management and coastal infrastructure, habitats and ecology. Participants in the 2025 Envision Resilience […]
Envision Resilience: Designs for Living in a Changing Climate
A Multi-Month Exhibition of Adaptive Proposals for Portland and South Portland—Opens at the Portland Public Library with a Feb. 7 Opening Reception PORTLAND, Maine — The Envision Resilience: Designs for Living in a Changing Climate exhibition is open now at the Portland Public Library’s Community Gallery through March 15. A free community open house will […]
Eight University Partners Selected for Fourth Envision Resilience Challenge: The 2024 Design Studio and Community Engagement Initiative will Explore Portland and South Portland, Maine
PORTLAND, Maine May 8, 2024 — The Envision Resilience Challenge, a multi-university design studio and community engagement initiative developed by Remain, announced today it is headed to Maine with eight universities set to participate. Portland, South Portland and the Casco Bay Islands have been selected as study sites for the 2024 fall design studio, which […]
Designs for Living with Rising Seas—A Multi-Month Exhibition of Adaptive Proposals for the South Coast’s Future—Opens at the New Bedford Art Museum with Jan. 26 Opening Reception
Friday, Jan. 5, 2024 Envision Resilience: Designs for Living with Rising Seas—A Multi-Month Exhibition of Adaptive Proposals for the South Coast’s Future—Opens at the New Bedford Art Museum with a Jan. 26 Opening Reception NEW BEDFORD, MASS.—Designs and renderings developed by university students for how the communities of New Bedford and Fairhaven could adapt to […]
Six University Partners Selected for 2023 Envision Resilience New Bedford and Fairhaven Challenge that Calls on Students to Reimagine Buzzards Bay in the Face of Rising Seas
Tuesday May 16, 2023 NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—Six university partners—including two from the University of Massachusetts system—have been selected for the third iteration of the Envision Resilience Challenge taking place in New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts, this fall as students develop innovative solutions for coastal communities to adapt to sea level rise. The 2023 Envision Resilience […]
Envision Resilience Challenge Launches Year Three of Design Studio and Community Engagement Program in New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts
Thursday, February 9, 2023 New Bedford, Mass.—The Envision Resilience Challenge, a semester-long design studio connecting interdisciplinary university teams with coastal communities to inspire adaptive and creative solutions to the challenges of sea level rise and climate change, will take place in New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts in the fall of 2023. Enlisting student teams of […]
