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New Deconstruction Initiative Launches at Land Bank Creeks Property

By Claire McElwain

NANTUCKET, MA — Remain announced today a new partnership with the Nantucket Land Bank to advance a deconstruction initiative at 19 East Creek Road, creating new opportunities for material reuse and workforce training across the island’s building sector. The project was formally supported at the Land Bank Commission meeting on Tuesday, April 22. Work at…

Envision Resilience Participants Design for Vulnerable Coastlines

By Claire McElwain

Metropolis (April 23, 2025) —The climate crisis will not be solved in a silo. Designing for the what if demands an interdisciplinary approach, with landscape architects, environmental scientists, design professionals and likeminded disciplines operating in tandem while tackling one interrelated challenge after the next. Read the full story here.

Envision Resilience: Shifting Tides and Evolving Landscapes—A Multimedia Exhibition Exploring Climate Futures Through Art and Design—Opens at SPACE Gallery on April 4

By Claire McElwain

PORTLAND, Maine — Envision Resilience: Shifting Tides and Evolving Landscapes, a new multimedia exhibition bridging visual art and adaptive design, will open at SPACE Gallery on Friday, April 4 with a free community reception at 5 p.m., Envision Resilience announced today. Through student and community partnerships, Envision Resilience works to advance innovative city planning…

Envision Resilience: Designs for Living in a Changing Climate—A Multi-Month Exhibition of Innovative Student Designs—Opens at the South Portland Public Library

By Claire McElwain

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — The Envision Resilience: Designs for Living in a Changing Climate exhibition will open at the South Portland Public Library on March 21 with a free community open house at 5 p.m. that will celebrate featured student designs for how this coastal community can thrive in a changing climate. Curated by…

Design students float climate resiliency ideas for Casco Bay

By Claire McElwain

Portland, South Portland (Feb 20, 2025) — Floating communities, breakwaters and parks. New water taxi services, replanted eelgrass beds and sauna-based tourism. Reclaimed tank farms turned into ponds, marshes or parks. Covering shoreline bluffs with native plants that draw pollinators and prevent erosion. Read the full story here.

Remain spins off coastal resilience group

By Claire McElwain

The Inquirer & Mirror (Feb 17, 2025) — Envision Resilience, the annual design studio that for the last five years has brought together students and coastal communities to imagine a resilient future in the face of climate change, will spin off from its parent organization Remain into an independent organization, the two groups announced last…

Remain’s Envision Resilience Challenge Spins Off into New Organization

By Claire McElwain

NANTUCKET, Mass. (February 10, 2025) — Envision Resilience, an annual design studio that for the last five years has brought together students and coastal communities to imagine a resilient future in the face of climate change, will spin off from parent organization Remain into an independent organization, the two groups announced today. “Launching programs…