2025 Regional and Urban Design Committee Symposium
Explore how cities can transform disruption into opportunity at the 2025 RUDC Symposium—two fast-paced days of visionary talks, immersive tours, and Dallas-focused discussions on designing more resilient, adaptive urban futures.
Urban morphosis: Reimagining cities through adaptation
Cities are reinventing themselves in real time. Post-pandemic work patterns, generative AI economies, accelerating climate disaster impact events, and a nationwide affordability crisis are disrupting and, at the same time, opening new pathways to a more resilient urban future. The 2025 RUDC Symposium asks: What design, policy, and financial innovations can turn today's volatility and challenges in cities into a durable and sustainable urban form for the future?
Hosted by the AIA Regional and Urban Design Knowledge Community (RUDC), the symposium features fast-paced talks and dialogue with architects, urban designers, planners, technologists, community advocates, investors, and others. Speakers will deliver 10 to 12-minute presentations that address one of the four focused themes outlined below, each framed by open questions that reflect the pressing challenges of 2025.
Event program
The 2025 RUDC Symposium is a packed, fast-paced two-day event. Day 1 is a series of speakers addressing our 2025 theme. Day 2 builds on the discussions from Day 1 with a series of morning tours for attendees to select based on their interests, followed by an afternoon of speakers focused on Dallas-specific urban design challenges and solutions.
Learning units: Earn up to 15.5 LUs & 6.5 HSWs
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