Future Vision Day 2

Future Vision is a two day virtual symposium that brings industry professionals together to discuss topics about equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), their importance relative to the health of the industry and develop tools necessary to promote equity in the profession.

This year’s theme: ELEVATE (How do we elevate DEI in design to new heights, what will it take to get us there?) All Future Vision 2023 events are virtual, except for the in-person reception on Friday.

Pricing (after July 28)

Member Pricing (Includes NOMA PDX members)

All 4 Sessions (7 Credit Hours) - $85
(Sign up for all for all four sessions and get a $10 grub hub gift certificate)
Day 1, Session 1 (2 Credit Hours) - $30
Day 1, Session 2 (1.5 Credit Hours) - $22.50
Day 2, Session 1 (2 Credit Hours) - $30
Day 2, Session 2 (1.5 Credit Hours) - $22.50
Friday Night Reception - Free (please be sure to register HERE)

Non-Member Pricing

All 4 Sessions (7 Credit Hours) - $200
(Sign up for all for all four sessions and get a $10 grub hub gift certificate)
Day 1, Session 1 (2 Credit Hours) - $60
Day 1, Session 2 (1.5 Credit Hours) - $45
Day 2, Session 1 (2 Credit Hours) - $60
Day 2, Session 2 (1.5 Credit Hours) - $45
Friday Night Reception - $20 (please be sure to register HERE)

Register for Future Vision 2023 Here

Day Two Schedule
This is a two-day event - Go to Day One

Day 2- Reshaping the Future of Design

Session 1- 8a-10a (2 Hours)- Can we rethink the Pipeline Between Academia and Practice of Architecture?
CE Pending

Moderator: Kelly Chanopas - Architect - DEI Leader – NOMA PDX - ZGF Architects

Speakers:

Julian Owens - Architect- NOMA National Parliamentarian – Co-Founder Clemson University NOMAS - JACOBS
Ray Huff –Architect- Educator - Director Clemson Design Center in Charleston – Huff Gooden Architects
Sergio Palleroni – Architect/Urban Designer -Educator- Director PSU Center for Public Interest Design
Ana Yocum – Designer - NOMAPDX Co-Founder
Rayshad Dorsey - Designer- Co-Founder Clemson University NOMAS - Howeller+Yoon Architecture
Steven Lewis - Principal Urban Designer – NOMAC - DEI Leader - Educator – ZGF Architects
Biancha Claritt – Designer- NOMA PDX - Lease Clutcher Lewis
Nyaz Addison – Designer – NOMA PDX

Session 2- 10a-12p (1.5 Hours)- Deaf space- Rethinking Accessibility through the lenses of a Deaf Designer
1.5 AIA LU|HSW Available

Workshop style panel where the panelists will be presenting deaf space and accessibility, sharing their journey in design, and share with attendees basic sign language and resources available for architects.

Moderator: Hannah Silver - Accessibility Consultant/Educator/Designer - NOMAPDX- Holst Architecture

Speakers:

Monserrat Vasquez Fonseca - Designer – NOMAPDX - Holst Architecture
Mohamed Fakhry - Designer- ZGF Architects – NOMAPDX - AIAO CoEDI

Session 1 Participants

Nyaz Addison, NOMA

Nyaz has spent most of her time in the mainland USA in efforts to support immigrant and underserved community members. In the past ten years most of her experience is in the community mentorship of middle schoolers and high schoolers. While these experiences were largely not directly initiated via an architectural lens Nyaz has always brought skills and tools from architecture into those spaces. Through these experiences Nyaz has found passion in learning alongside others, using reflection as a tool for forward movement, and an ever-growing desire to see acts of architecture explicitly clothed in tangible and measurable empowerment of those not already in the conversation. Nyaz has facilitated at a multitude of formal programs such has ARCH High at PSU, EmpowHer, and her own thesis. She brings to the table a wealth of experience engaging community and creative solutions through relationship and process-based reflection.

Kelly Chanopas, AIA, NOMA

Kelly is an architect with over 15 years of experience primarily focused on healthcare projects. Her favorite projects are the ones with complex programs that bring together collaborative teams to find the innovative and project-appropriate design solutions. Architecture has led her to Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., Seattle, and now Portland. A former chair of CoEDI, Kelly is an advocate for representation within architecture and bringing equity and inclusion to the design process.

Biancha Claritt, NOMA

Biancha is a Project Engineer and Designer with an architecture and construction management background, producing new perspectives and approaches to her work. She thrives in challenging environments that require innovation and creativity to navigate and generate solutions. Biancha loves collaborating with diverse and high-functioning design and construction teams to deliver complex builds. As an advocate for driving change in our industry, especially regarding diversity, equity and inclusion, Biancha is an active member of NOMA (National Organization of Minority Architects of Portland and Atlanta) and the AIA. She is also a mentor to recent graduates and rising seniors of her alma mater, Kennesaw State University. In addition to empowering and providing opportunities to undervalued communities, she is also passionate about restoration and preservation work. Some of her favorite projects she’s managed were adaptative-reuse such as transforming a historic boutique into a one-of-a-kind restaurant. Exploring opportunities to become LEED certified and obtain her architectural license are some of Biancha's next big goals for her career.

Rayshad Dorsey

Rayshad Dorsey is an Architectural Designer from South Carolina. He holds a Master of Architecture with Distinction from Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he won the Araldo A. Cossutta Annual Prize for Design Excellence in 2021. Rayshad was the founder and President of Harvard GSD National Organization of Minority Architecture Students and served as a student member on the Dean’s Diversity Cabinet. Rayshad has worked for firms across the U.S., including Atelier Cory Henry in Los Angeles, WW Architecture in Boston, Patterhn-Ives in St. Louis, and currently at Howeler + Yoon Architecture in Boston. In 2022 Rayshad was an invited editor and contributor to OBL/Que no. 4, a journal on Anti-Racist Conservation Practices and Discourses. His research interest lies at the intersection of architecture, critical conservation, race, and spatial planning.

Ray Huff, FAIA

Ray Huff's professional career combined the Academy | Practice that engaged questions of architecture, culture, and the tectonic. Before establishing the international design practice Huff+Gooden Architects, Ray founded the Clemson Architecture Center in Charleston (CAC.C) in 1987, where he served as director. In 2017, he was named director of the newly established Clemson Design Center in Charleston (CDC.C). The Center includes undergraduate architecture and landscape architecture, graduate programs in architecture, resilient urban design, historic preservation, and Architecture+Community BUILD - a community-focused build program. In addition to teaching at the CAC.C/CDC.C, Ray held the distinguished Bishop Chair at Yale University's Graduate School of Architecture.

His introduction to practice under noted Florida architect Donald Singer's mentorship was instrumental in shaping Ray's understanding of architecture, building, and contextual influences. Throughout his career, he continued refining the tectonic in his work and the intersection of building and its relationship to cultural, geopolitical, and social tectonics. Awards and acknowledgments include the Clemson Architecture Alumni Achievement Award, Medal of Distinction from the American Institute of Architects, Tau Sigma Delta Award of Recognition, School of Architecture, Clemson University, several national awards from the National Council of Architecture Accrediting Boards for his academic work, including several AIA Design Awards. In 2002, he was selected as one of six "Emerging Voices" by the New York Architectural League.

Ray was elevated to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows in 2015.

R. Steven Lewis, FAIA, NOMA

Steven Lewis is an architect and a tireless advocate for social justice and diversity within the field of architecture. He is currently a principal with the firm ZGF Architects, where he leads the Los Angeles office’s urban design practice. Prior to joining ZGF, Steven was appointed by Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, to the position of Urban Design Director for the City’s Central Region, where he played a key role in shaping the vision of present and future development. Steven is the AIA 2016 Whitney M. Young, Jr. Award recipient, and was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in December of 2015. In January of 2008, he returned to Southern California to join Parsons as a Design Manager after serving four years with the U.S. General Services Administration’s Office of the Chief Architect in Washington, DC. Steven was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design for the 2006-07 academic year. He was a founding partner of the Los Angeles-based firm of RAW International in 1984, and for the next twenty years, was an essential part of the firm’s growth and success. In December of 2010, he concluded a two-year term as President of the National Organization of Minority Architects, traveling around the country advocating for architects-of-color, while cultivating the next generation of diverse architects and designers. Steven recently launched a consulting practice – “Thinking Leadership – What we Do…Who we Are” – aimed at assisting clients attain superior outcomes through his engagement. More than anything, Steven is a facilitator of partnerships and alliances between groups and individuals who seek to use architecture and design to effect positive change to our world.

Julian Owens, AIA, NOMA

Julian Owens focused on community-designed and built projects while studying at Clemson. The goal was to learn how to positively influence the lives of others through design. There is a community within every project, and he has committed himself to the advancement of those underserved. At Clemson University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Architecture and Masters Degree in Architecture, Julian Owens founded the university’s chapter of National Organization of Minority Architects and has since been heavily involved in NOMA on the national level. He currently serves as the Parliamentarian on the National Executive Board. His passion for community impact continues to grow through his involvement in NOMA. He has also been recognized nationally for his work and contributions to the field as a 2022 AIA Associates Award recipient.

Julian now holds a position as a Project Architect at Jacobs. In his 5+ years of experience, he has designed and developed buildings of various project types, to include single-family residential, small and large commercial, mixed-use multifamily, and higher education facilities. As an architect licensed in his birthplace, Washington, D.C., Julian aims to find ways to work on his craft every day, and looks forward to future opportunities to make a positive impact in his community through design

Sergio Palleroni

Sergio Palleroni, is a Professor and Director of the Center for Public Interest Design at Portland State University( www.centerforpublicinterestdesign.org). Previously a professor at the University of Washington and Texas (Austin), he is internationally recognized for his multidisciplinary research and fieldwork with academic institutions worldwide with socially and economically marginalized communities. He has worked on housing, sustainable architecture and community design in the developing world since the 1980's both for not-for-profit agencies and governmental and international agencies such as UNESCO, World Bank. Much of this recent research is published in his National AIA report, and book Wisdom from the Field: Public Interest Practices in Action (2017). The research was funded by the AIA’s Latrobe Prize, awarded biannually.

Ana Yocum, NOMA

Ana Yocum is currently based in Portland, Oregon.

After completing her Bachelors of Architecture at Portland State University, School of Architecture in 2020, she co-founded the local professional chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), and now serves as a Board Member and Social Media Manager for NOMA|PDX. She now has acquired experience in architecture and construction and she is excited to learn more about other sectors of the industry like interior and landscape design before returning to the studio environment for her Master's degree.

As a craftsman of wood, leather, wire, she's not afraid of material exploration. Ana is a reciprocity based problem solver, a climber, a dancer and she is all the things she doesn't even know yet herself.

Session 2 Participants

Mohamed Fakhry, Associate AIA, NOMA

Mohamed is a deaf designer currently working at ZGF and with 3+ years of experience working on projects of various scales and types, ranging from healthcare, civic, mixed-use, and community build. His passion lies in pushing for more accessibility in architecture, and helping youth find inspiration within the AEC industry. As a Hatfield and Gavalas Kolankos Scholar, he has been eager to push and advocate for DEI efforts in both Oregon and South Carolina.

As current chair of AIA Oregon CoEDI and co-chair of AIA Portland Emerging Professionals Committee, he has aimed to keep pushing the barriers beyond what young emerging professionals, and particularly, what emerging designers with a disability can do and contribute when it comes to advancing DEI in design, and further opening the doors of possibilities within the architecture profession.

As a visual thinker and lip reader, he is always eager to bring accessibility and inclusion into the conversation anytime he is in the room, regardless of what it will takes. Because, when it comes to designing new spaces, no one should be left out, no matter who they are, and that is something he strongly believes in and keep on advocating through his voice, and the multitude of projects he has been part of as a designer, mentor, and facilitator.

Throughout his involvement with the AFO and NOMA, he has been able to help and expose youth to the many ways design can profoundly impact our built environment and further show them how buildings can shape our world in ways that bring us close to each other.

He understands that bridges are the gaps to our communities and he aims to build and harness more of them throughout his design career still young.

Hannah Silver, NOMA

With a background in architecture and urban planning, Hannah Silver brings a broad understanding of health, equity, and sustainable design best practices to her engaging community outreach and workshop facilitation. Hannah is committed to centering the experiences of spatially marginalized people, highlighting intersectional needs, and emphasizing practical strategies for making joyful, inclusive design happen.

Monserrat Vasquez Fonseca, NOMA

Monse Fonseca is a Deaf Mexican woman with two years of experience as a designer at Holst Architecture. Monse is passionate about equity, diversity, inclusion, and sustainability, and incorporated all of these concepts in her thesis work as a Master of Architecture student at Portland State University. Using the principles of biomimicry and biophilia, she took inspiration from a monarch caterpillar for the design of a Living Education Center within a new K-8 school.

Monse seeks to design in ways that enrich people’s lives, creating spaces that bring harmony to form, contextualization, and materiality. In her free time, Monse enjoys hiking, cooking, baking, and dancing.