ACD Announcements - October 2007

Announcements for October 1, 2007

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ACD Announcements

Don't be a wallflower: join an ACD Committee today!

ACD runs on the time and energy of volunteer members and leaders. By contributing your efforts to one or more ACD projects, you can make us a more sustainable organization. Please review the committee descriptions below, and email jess@micd.org if you are interested in joining one:
  • Conference: help plan tours, lectures, panels, venues, and other events for ACD's upcoming conferences.
  • Communications: help to publish ACD's website and e-newsletter. This committee is also responsible for coordinating community design focused articles and issue themes in other publications like Progressive Planning and Shelterforce.
  • Membership: help expand the organization's reach by strategizing about how to reach new membership audiences and plan for engaging existing members in the organization's work.
  • Academic/Education: help develop resources for teachers, instructors, and university-based design centers. Develop plans for engaging students and recognizing significant faculty and student community design projects.
  • Gulf Coast: help to identify how the resources of a national organization like ACD can be put to use in the hurricane-affected Gulf Coast.

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Jobs

Environmental Works Community Design Center

Environmental Works, founded in 1970, is a non-profit community design center serving low income populations in the Puget Sound Region. Projects emphasizing sustainability include housing, child care centers, community clinics, facilities for special populations and shelters.

We are seeking talented, detail oriented, self-motivated individuals with 1-8 years architectural experience to join our team. We are committed to creating humane and respectful architecture in a supportive working environment. CAD proficiency is required. Commitment to sustainability is preferred. Compensation and benefits are competitive.

Please send resumes to Jan Gleason at the address below or jgleason@eworks.org.

Environmental WORKS
402 15th Avenue East
Seattle WA 98112
206.329.8300
www.eworks.org


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Conferences

Are You Going to Greenbuild? November 7-9, 2007 in Chicago

And would you like to get together with fellow ACD-ers? ACD member Melissa Threatt is looking to arrange a gathering for those attending Greenbuild 2007 in Chicago next month; you can send email to melissa.threatt@gmail.com and let her know when you'll be in town. For information about registering for Greenbuild, visit www.greenbuildexpo.org/Register/.


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Canadian Institute of Planners and Planners Network Conferences in July 2008

ACD members and others are encouraged to submit proposals for community design papers for the upcoming Canadian Institute of Planners (CIP) 2008 Conference. The conference will be held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada from July 13 - 16, 2008. The CIP conference will be immediately followed by the Planners Network Conference (PN2008) also to be held in Winnipeg.

One goal is to lay some groundwork for a summer institute in community design. A second goal is to establish a community design interest group within the Canadian Institute of Planners. A third goal is to build some capacity for a community design team in Manitoba, similar to the Minnesota Design Team. Additional goals are listed in the Call for Proposals.

For the Call for Proposals for CIP see the attachment and the following website: http://www.cip-icu.ca/English/conference/2008callforproposals.htm. Proposals are due November 1, 2007.

For further information about the Planners Network conference, continue to monitor the following website: http://www.plannersnetwork.org/conferences/index.html

We look forward to your interest! ACD members should feel free to forward this information to others they think may be interested.


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EAAE/ARCC Conference: 25-28 June 2008 in Copenhagen, Denmark

The European Association for Architectural Education and the Architectural Research Centers Consortium extend an invitation to all architectural researchers whose research has focused on the importance of the relationship between the digital and analogue worlds. The paper review for this conference will be conducted in two stages. The first stage of the review will involve a blind peer review of the brief abstract. Successful review at this stage will result in an invitation to submit a full paper for peer review. Deadline for the initial 500-word (maximum) abstract is December 3, 2007. Results of the first stage selection process will be conveyed to all submitters by January 11, 2008. For complete submission and conference information, download the conference invitation here.


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Tidbits

Call for Papers - Special Journal Issue on Hurricane Response Announced

At the request of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), ACSA is supporting the publication of a special issue of the journal Cityscape devoted to university-based rebuilding efforts in the Gulf region after the 2005 hurricanes. ACSA members who are or were involved in rebuilding efforts in the Gulf are especially encouraged to submit their work for publication, according to the guidelines of the call for papers.

Cityscape seeks submission of articles documenting work by university-based architecture, landscape architecture, or planning programs to aid in the Gulf-region?s disaster recovery process. Specifically, articles are sought documenting built or substantially completed projects, including homes, parks, and other community development projects. Articles will be published in the July 2008 issue. The issue will be edited by Kathleen Dorgan, AIA, of Dorgan Architects; Michael Monti, PhD, executive director of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture; and Kinnard Wright of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
See https://www.acsa-arch.org/faculty/cityscapes.aspx for complete submission information; the deadline is November 15, 2007. Contact Kathleen Dorgan at dorgan@kdorgan.net or Michael Monti at mmonti@acsa-arch.org with questions about issue content.


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Autodesk and ACSA Integrated Practice Project

Autodesk and ACSA have partnered to develop an Integrated Studio project. The project will document the efforts at ACSA member schools in which emerging design and project delivery methods are being taught in studio. The project will illustrate how building information modeling (BIM) technologies can be used as a platform for collaboration among participants in design, engineering and construction. The Integrated Studio will encourage collaborative work in the studio among disciplines and will seek to teach students to produce a comprehensive architectural project using building information modeling tools such as Revit Architecture, and other design tools such as Autodesk 3ds Max for visualization. The project will feature the efforts at selected member schools in a multimedia video (subject to change for Phase II). The video will include interviews with the students and faculty and will feature images and drawings from the studio work. The goal will be to exemplify the use of BIM across the disciplines to enable students from areas of architecture, design and civil engineering to collaborate on a project in preparation for professional practice. Submissions Deadline: October 15, 2007. Send proposals to Eric Ellis, ACSA Project Manager at eellis@acsa-arch.org.


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Article from Affordable Housing Finance on Community Input

This month, Affordable Housing Finance includes an article on the influence of community input on the design of affordable housing. To read the article, "Break Out of the Box," visit www.housingfinance.com/ahf/articles/2007/sept/BREAK0907.htm.


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