Ace McArleton
Username
Ace McArleton
Proposer First Name
Ace
Proposer Email
ace@newframeworks.com
Proposer Last Name
McArleton
Proposer Company/Organization
New Frameworks
Proposer Phone
(802) 917-4059
Proposer Job Title
Co-Founder, General Manager
Boston 2023 Areas of Focus
Proposed Session Description
Join principals of New Frameworks and Builders for Climate Action for a critical look at our practices that have endeavored to embed justice and belonging alongside the highest goals for building health, efficiency, and carbon storage in projects - for the purpose of workshopping how our industry can scale carbon storage and justice, rapidly, to address climate justice. From organizational structure to project development to design details, we will provide an honest look at our development so as to ask and answer the question with our colleagues - what can we learn from our mistakes and successes, our limitations and opportunities? How do we scale this work to meet the demands of climate crisis and human justice, quickly and creatively?
Diversity and Inclusiveness
We will be addressing how social justice is embedded with climate focus in our work and how it must be as we scale the work - using tangible examples.
Learning Objectives
Participants will discover and appraise the development of both organizations to
identify the ways in which theoretical goals can be translated into improved, scalable practice.
Participants will evaluate the manner in which both organizations incorporated
their values into building projects and products and can make associations
with their own practices.
Participants will identify strategies used by the presenters that have resonance
and applicability to their own practices, and how lessons learned can be useful to the industry.
Participants will engage in discussion about the ways in which such goals and ideals
can be further embedded in their own practices and scaled into our industry as a whole.
Has this session been presented before?
No
Additional Comments
Submitted a similar session to ILFI (International Living Futures Institute) conference. Excited to do a NESEA-style community think tank on how to scale and expand practices of both justice and carbon-storing climate solutions.
Session Format
Collaborative problem-solving session
Presentation followed by facilitated discussion or breakout groups
Session Format Details
In this session, the presenters will provide case studies and examples of their work as it relates to the values of climate healing and human justice. They will then facilitate a moderated discussion, with targeted questions for participants to provoke dialogue about how these themes apply to their own practice and how we can scale these solutions rapidly in our industry.
Two 20-minute presentations followed by open discussion and brainstorming with the goal of actionable ideas for our industry resulting.
Recommended Length
90-minute session
Strongest Content Connection - Boston 2023
Anything else you'd like to tell us about your session proposal?
Thank you for the opportunity and for all the work of the conference planners!
Reviewer 1
Smith, Greg
Reviewer 2
Stuart, Stephen
Curator
Stuart, Stephen
Proposal #
195
Session #
505
Committee Decision
Accepted
Presenters
Full Description
Recently, the need to think about the built environment as an important site for carbon storage has become evident. Those who have been making carbon storing buildings for decades have an equally strong commitment to social justice and access, relationship to place, reduced toxicity, beauty, design for disassembly, and all of the Living Building Challenge petals could provide useful lessons learned and opportunities for helping the industry slingshot forward to solutions that foreground these aims. We are hopeful that having critical conversations with our peers about the pros and cons of how we have combined these values into real world projects with all of these goals, and the challenges and successes we've experienced along the way, can be fodder for all of us to create the desperately needed next iterations of such projects at scale.