India Basin: If the Big Five of Bayview Could See It Now, Part 2

March 10, 2024
Like their trailblazing predecessors, a new cadre of leaders won't rest until racial equality and economic justice deliver decent housing, education, job opportunities, and a healthy environment for this community.

Terre Verde: Creating Resilient Cities

October 14, 2022
Earth Island Journal editor, Maureen Nandini Mitra talks with Alison Sant about the many pathways towards reinventing our cities to be regenerative and equitable.

The Atlantic Festival

September 21, 2022
Alison Sant participated in the panel, "The Possibility of a Sustainable Future: Combatting Climate Change" with Suzanne Lee (Biofabricate) and Seth Goldman (PLNT Burger), moderated by Atlantic Staff Writer Robinson Meyer. The conversation acknowledged that the stakes couldn’t be higher. Finding solutions to climate change so that people and nature can thrive together is the opportunity and challenge of the moment. The Atlantic assembled policymakers, climate innovators, scientists, and business leaders to address today’s most urgent climate challenges and solutions to build a more resilient future.

Smithsonian Earth Optimism X Folklife Festival

June 26, 2022
Livelihoods and Landscapes, a Panel discussion

ThreeSixtyCity Podcast Featuring Alison Sant

Feburary 23, 2022
Host Greg Lindsay interviews Alison Sant about her book From the Ground Up.

From the Ground Up

2022
Named one of the best books of 2022 by the American Society of Landscape Architects and Planetizen

Living with Water Tours

May - April 2018
As members of the Bionic Team for the Bay Area Resilient by Design Challenge, the Studio worked with community- based advocacy groups, including Canal Alliance, Canal Welcome Center, and Resilient Shore, to create the Living with Water tours. This series of public walking, biking, and kayaking tours brought public awareness to the effects of sea level rise on a frontline community where segregation has concentrated its majority Latinx residents, many of whom live below the poverty line, in one of the lowest-lying areas of the San Francisco Bay. These events brought the public into conversation with scientists, designers, planners, government officials, businesses, and advocacy groups who are working to make the San Francisco Bay Area resilient to the climatic challenges ahead. The tours were offered free of charge to the general public, with meals provided. The Bionic Team earned the National ASLA Award of Excellence: Communications Award in 2019.

Field Lab

October 2016
As Designers-In-Residence at the Exploratorium, the Studio for Urban Projects created a Field Lab along the San Francisco waterfront to examine the effects of sea-level rise in the San Francisco Bay. Over the course of a month, the Field Lab was a venue for public discussions, hands-on workshops, a research library, and film screenings.