This project aims to chart a clear path for the practice of integrative blue-green infrastructure design in service of a more climate-ready and resilient Great Lakes Basin. This workshop, generously sponsored by the Council of the Great Lakes Region, aims to contribute to the protection and future resilience of the Great Lakes by promoting innovation in integrative blue-green infrastructure design. This includes innovation in skills and talent development as well as applied academic research spanning the disciplines of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and the related Sciences and Public Policy arenas. Synthesizing these diverse fields of knowledge is the daily work of design professionals in this field. Our goal is to better connect academic research to the cutting edge of the profession. Through this workshop, we aim to highlight projects that integrate multiple sustainability-related objectives in strategies in synergistic ways. Lastly, this workshop aims to identify barriers to innovation and to chart a clear path for the practice of integrative blue-green infrastructure design in service of a more climate ready and resilient Great Lakes Basin. 

Launched in 2020, the Great Lakes Higher Education Consortium was co-founded by the Council of the Great Lakes Region (CGLR), the University of Toronto and the University of Illinois System to address the most pressing socio-economic and environmental challenges facing the region by promoting regular and impactful collaborations among academics, industry and governments. In 2021, four other major universities joined the Consortium. It is currently being administered by the CGLR.
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