Seaside Institute

A Conversation with Mallory B.E. Baches

A conversation about New Urbansim with President of the Congresss for the New Urbanism, Mallory B.E. Baches.  Mallory is an urban designer with over twenty years of experience working at the intersection of urban planning and community development. She began her career with Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company [https://www.dpz.com/], leading firm in new urbanist design, development and implementation practices. In this convesation we discuss many topics including the 60th IMCL (International Making Citiies Livable) and the upcoming Congress that will be held in Cincinnati, Ohio.  This historic river city where its urban core was rebuilt harnessing its own diversity to overcome adversity. Where new entrepreneurs hone their craft in new ways and old, where the south and north convene, where pigs fly. Home to Over-the-Rhine, one of the largest, most intact urban historic districts in the country, Cincinnati is where history meets the future. This birthplace of American industry is now the logistics capital of the Midwest and the headquarters of six fortune 500 companies. Once the leading beer-producing city in the 1800s, they are now reviving that legacy with unique neighborhood breweries throughout the region. Made up of distinct neighborhoods, Cincinnati and its surrounding region is a mosaic of unique communities and places, from the city's seven hills to its river cities and beyond. From thriving Mainstrasse in Covington to a redeveloping College Hill, and industrious Camp Washington to name a few, Cincinnati is the crossroads of rivers, commerce, and culture. CNU 32 in Cincinnati will be a celebration of great places, regional diversity, and the deep history of opportunity in the Queen City of the West.  The Seaside Instiute is a supporting partner of CNU and we look forward to discovering and re-envisoniong this city with the many great minds in Urban Planning.   For more about CNU32 visit: cnu.org/cnu32.  To help support the Seaside Institute visit: seasideinstitute.org.

A Conversation with John Simmerman, Active Towns

John Simmerman, Founrder of Active Towns and Seaside Institute [https://seasideinstitute.org]'s Executive Director, Christy Milliken dive into active mobility in this episode.   John Simmerman is a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience with concentration that has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior relate to active living and especially active mobility. In 2012, he launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places. Since that time, he has been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multi-media content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities". His primary platforms are  Active Towns YouTube Channel [https://www.youtube.com/@ActiveTowns?sub_confirmation=1] and the  Active Towns Podcast: Conversations About Creating a Culture of Activity [https://activetowns.transistor.fm/].

A Conversation with Victor Dover and Joseph Kohl

In this episode Victor Dover and Joseph Kohl share a conversation with Podcast Host and Executive Director, Christy Milliken of the SEASIDE Institute™ about the origin story of Dover, Kohl, and Partners, the imaging process they use for envisioning town design, the new ubanism movement, the influence of SEASIDE® and Andrés Duany along with Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, the revitatilzation of Historic Downtown Panama City, Florida after Hurricane Michael, a CAT 5 that devestrated the area.  Victor and Joe will be recognized as the 2024 SEASIDE Prize™ recipients.   The Seaside Prize recognizes individuals and organizations who through design, have changed the way we live. Prize winners are thought innovators in concepts, quality, and character of their industry and considered leaders of Contemporary Urban Development and Education, who have made their vision a reality; and ultimately our lives better. Recipients of the "Prize" influence how towns and cities are built. They challenge our thinking about promoting diversity, walk ability, sustainability, livability and quality of life. From young to old, where we live is at the core of how we live.

A Conversation with Jeff Speck & Mike Lydon

SEASIDE Institute™ Executive Director, Christy Milliken sat down with Walkable City [https://www.amazon.com/Walkable-City-Tenth-Anniversary-Downtown/dp/1250857988/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1T3PHSIINT79R&keywords=walkable%20city&qid=1685565740&sprefix=walkable%20city%20ru%2Caps%2C548&sr=8-1] Advocate and Author, Jeff Speck [https://www.jeffspeck.com] and Street-Plans [https://street-plans.com/our-firm/people/] Founder, Mike Lydon for a conversation about the history of their career and their beginnings with DPZ CoDesign. [https://www.dpz.com] Both Mike and Jeff are members of our Board of Fellows.  In 2017 Mike Lydon won the SEASIDE Prize™ and in 2022, Jeff Speck won the SEASIDE Prize™.  They were invited to SEASIDE® via the Institute to assess our county-wide bike path plans.  Learn how New Urbanism is catching up with tactical urbansim with adaptable solutions for a more cohesive mobility implementation for community.  The conversation evolves to the more global impact that both of these experts have had in their career and how they are changing street design one community at a time.

A Conversation with Digital Graffiti Alys Beach Curator, John Colette

In this episode Seaside Institute [https://seasideinstitute.org] Director, Christy Milliken and SOWAL House [https://www.sowalhouse.com] Chief Vision Officer, Dave King have a conversation with Digital Graffiti Alys Beach [https://alysbeach.com] Curator, John Colette.  John is a professional in media/arts with a career of over 35 years spanning both industry and Academia.  He is a Professor in the Motion Media Design program at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) in Savannah, Georgia.  His experience and expertise have contributed over many years in the success of the Digital Graffiti event as he worked with his students and the team at Alys Beach in previous years.  Colette became the Curator of Digitial Graffiti Alys Beach in 2022 and has already doubled the amount of installs that take over the entire town for a weekend. Digital Graffiit attracts a global pool of artists and is a place where technology meets art and art meets archictecure.  We cover what happens behind-the-scenes to pull off an event of this magnitude, the level of skill every artist brings, and the cultural significance this brings to community. We share how the walkable design of Alys Beach allows this to become an outdoor gallery that features globally recognized artists on the backdrop of the stark white architecture of Alys Beach.