Hope Hui Rising

Dr. Rising is the founder of Adaptive Water Urbanism Initiative, an integrate program of research, education, outreach, and design. The program aims to use hands-on education and action research to facilitate community-initiated adaptation to the adverse impacts of extreme terrestrial and space weather events through participatory planning and design games. The program has helped many communities develop consensus-based frameworks for a more adaptive future. Dr. Rising received two Best Paper Awards from the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) and the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture (CELA) and two research awards from EDRA and the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP). She is an Arts and Humanities Fellow with the Division of Research and a Fellow of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center. Dr. Rising is the Principal Investigator for the Innovation [X] project entitled Prototyping Blue-Green Infrastructure as Complex Adaptive Systems for Space Habitats. She co-leads the university’s Space Governance Working Group and co-chairs CELA’s People-Environment Relationships Track. Dr. Rising has been a licensed landscape architect since 2004 and has received more than a dozen professional design awards. Dr. Rising brings design leadership and project management experience with the world’s largest architecture, engineering, and landscape architecture practices to her classes, including Urban Design Studios, Principles of Urban Design, Practice Diversity, and Digital Media.

Place Attachment, Spatial Cognition, Environmental Adaptation, Community Resilience, Adaptive Water Systems, Environmental Migration, Environmental Psychology, Green Infrastructure, Space Habitat Design, Closed-Loop Life Support Systems, Water, Food, and Energy Nexus, and Space Governance.