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Let it Rain, Let it Rain, Let it Rain……

Friday, May 29 | 11:40am - 12:30pm
Location: Fuji Rooms 1-2

Speaker: Paul Byron Crane, A.S.L.A. B.L.A., M.A., Landscape Architect, City of Everett 

Description:

One of three Green Stormwater Infrastructure city programs focusing on the reduction stormwater being wasted flowing into a combined sewer system, the raingarden program became more than the sum of its parts. This path of many waypoints wove engineering, art, hands on education born from design charrettes to a built completion, the result of wholeistic collaboration. It is the path of introduction, collaboration between the city team and citizens involved being taught site analysis, hydrology on site at their homes then co-designing in the Charrette workshops and learning construction management in the completion of their raingardens, that is the essence of this presentation. Two design Charrettes were held in May with a total of 26 residents working with the programs Landscape Architect, Civil Engineers, Master Gardeners, Snohomish Conservation District, Washington State Extension Service. The final waypoint will be the mentoring by the new Everett Raingarden denizens for the next year’s program.

Learning Objectives:
  • Wholeistic design principals and the wholeistic collaborative process.
  • How to lead citizens in a wholeistic collaborative design build project.
  • Raingarden engineering concepts and design principals.
  • The public process verses private practice.
Speaker Bio: Paul Byron Crane, A.S.L.A. B.L.A., M.A., Landscape Architect with The City of Everett

Paul leads the City’s Rain Garden Program. Paul weaves Whole Systems Design, community engagement and sustainable infrastructure to complex ecological projects. Paul also teaches Sustainable Design and Low Impact Development via Sustainable Seattle, bringing sustainable design constructs from fact-finding trips as far afield as Japan, England and Sweden.