A year-long collaborative design challenge bringing together local residents, public officials and local, national and international experts to developinnovative community-based solutions that will strengthen our region’s resilience to sea level rise, severe storms, flooding and earthquakes.
Meet the projectsThese projects hope to inspire, catalyze action, and push us along the path to a more resilient future. Elevate San Rafael (Bionic) Unlock Alameda Creek (Public Sediment) The Peoples Plan (P+SET) South Bay Sponge (Field Operations Team) Estuary Commons (ABC) The Grand Bayway (Common Ground) Connect and Collect (Hassell+) ouR-Home (Home Team) Islais Hyper-Creek (BIG+ONE+Sherwood)
/iframe" data-provider-name="YouTube">It’s no secret — climate change is real, and the threats to the Bay Area must be addressed. Sea level rise affects all of us — not just our communities who have lived by our shoreline for decades and are most vulnerable — but also our roads and airports that support each of our nine counties and 101 municipalities, the major companies that serve as the backbone of our economy, and services like water treatment and more.There’s no time to wait — it’s time to come together and begin imagining a new future for all of us.
BLOG: Dispatches from the Challenge
Dispatches from the Challenge
Moving the Bay Area Challenge Forward

Reflections on the Collaborative Design Phase, the Resilient Bay Summit, and what’s next.

Read More Y-PLAN Youth Challenge Regional Summit Report Out

Report out on Regional Summit on April 25th.

Read More All Bay Collective's Nico Wright at the Higher Ground Earth Day Celebration at Brookfield Elementary

Claire Bonham-Carter (Aecom), and Chris Guillard, Alexandra Zahn and Nico Wright (CMG Landscape Architecture) attended Higher Ground’s Earth Day celebration and shared local sea level rise and groundwater maps.

Read More Y-PLAN San Rafael Students Get Ready for Flood Fair | BionicTeam

Students at Laurel Dell are getting ready for the San Rafael Flood Fair at Pickleweed Park on Saturday March 24th.

Read More The Field Operations Team Visits East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy

Students from East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy led the Field Operations Team on a tour and tested materials for their upcoming community workshop.

Read More The Theater of the Urban Waterfront: Where the City Opens

A Research Advisor blog contribution on examples of urban renewal in New York and San Francisco.

Read More Meet the Selected Design Opportunity Sites

Ten Design opportunity sites were selected to move forward in the Collaborative Design Phase. Design Teams, communities, and local stakeholders will work together to create resilient design solutions for our rising bay.

Read More Get ready Bay Area for tomorrow's site announcement!

Get ready, Bay Area! Tomorrow, we’ll be announcing where teams will be working with Bay Area communities in the Collaborative Design Phase. Here’s an update on Resilient by Design and Bay Area Challenge progress so far.

Read More Y-PLAN Kennedy High Student Presentations

Last Tuesday, members of Resilient by Design staff and Design Teams headed to Richmond to attend the final student presentations from Kennedy High School students involved in Y-PLAN’s Resilient by Design Youth Challenge. An initiative of UC Berkeley’s Center for Cities + Schools (C+CS), Y-PLAN engages youth with experts and local stakeholders to co-design innovative and implementable solutions.

Read More Reflecting on the Collaborative Research Phase

As we transition from the Collaborative Research Phase to the Collaborative Design Phase, we thought we’d take this moment to reflect back on Challenge progress since the Challenge Launch in May.

Read More Using Nature-Based Solutions, Community Engagement, and Technology to Foster Climate Resiliency

At the San Francisco Estuary Partnership (SFEP), we collaborate with partners from all levels of government, non-profits, scientists, and increasingly community advocates. This work is guided by the Estuary Blueprint--the overall plan for protecting, conserving, and restoring water quality and habitats.

Read More Advancing Community Resilience in Hunts Point, During and Post-Rebuild by Design

An interview with Angela Tovar of The POINT in Hunts Point, Bronx, NYC. The Hunts Point Lifelines proposal outlines four “Lifelines” that demonstrate a working waterfront that could be replicated in maritime industrial areas across the region.

Read More Growing up in Houston

Growing up in Houston, I got used to watching the waters rise. I remember the bayou less than 1000 feet from my house flooding over its banks multiple times...

Read More Video: SFEI Science Briefing

Click here to watch the SFEI Briefing to the Design Team Cohort at the Exploratorium during the Collaborative Research Phase's first week of research tours.

Read More Winning Teams Revealed

10 teams were selected. Click here to learn more about them.

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Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge was modeled on New York's Rebuild by Design, a successful program pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation in partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Learn more at www.rebuildbydesign.org/.