Join this Anchorage Design Week community design presentation to learn about ongoing efforts to redesign the experience of midtown Anchorage through the combined lens of urban design, landscape architecture, and ecosystem rehabilitation along the urbanized Fish Creek corridor. Local designer Tamás Deák will highlight planning and design efforts at urban and site scales developed as part of his professional practice at KPB Architects and service as board member for Friends of Fish Creek, a local non-profit organization advocating to acknowledge Fish Creek's cultural significance and restore its wild salmon habitat through daylighting (https://www.daylightfishcreek.org/).

Presented as an ongoing series of Anchorage Design Week, learn about Fish Creek and the work of designers, planners, advocates and neighbors seeking to advance improvements to both the human and riparian habitats along one of Anchorage’s most impaired stream systems. In addition to decades of experience working on design and planning projects throughout Alaska as a Principal at KPB Architects, Tamás has dedicated himself in service to the community of Anchorage by chairing numerous boards and commissions, and advocating for long-lasting improvements for residents at municipal, state, and national levels. Tamás leads design professionals and project teams as mentor and collaborator while seeking to advance responsive and responsible design solutions along and adjacent to riparian corridors and within watersheds for improved community health and habitat function.

This presentation is a collaborative program from the Anchorage Museum, the Alaska Chapter of American Society of Landscape Architects, KPB Architects, and Friends of Fish Creek.

This program invites conversation with local design activists and experts, and shares resources and ideas to be considered by communities, design professionals, and policy makers. Ask the presenter questions in this interactive, live presentation.

Free. Live on Zoom with registration via Crowdcast. Join the event live to participate in a Q&A, or access the recording after the event.

Designed Ecosystems – Stream Rehabilitation in Anchorage with special guest Tamás Deák