Planners Network International Conference 2013
Beyond Resilience: Actions for a Just Metropolis

June 6 – 8, 2013, New York City Metro Area Registration Open! Please visit http://justmetropolis.org/

Co-sponsored by Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility and Association of Community Design.

Cataclysmic events across North America and throughout the world such as Hurricane Sandy lay bare the ongoing crises in low-income communities: unemployment, foreclosures, homelessness, and service cutbacks. However, community-based organizations and activist networks are mobilizing, networking, and filling the gaps left by the failure of local and federal responses. This organizing continues beyond simple resilience, toward building a more just collective future. The conference includes:

• Screening of “My Brooklyn” and a discussion with the filmmaker.
• Dialogue with community groups & residents at mobile community workshops.
• A celebration of justice and action at Pratt Brooklyn’s historic Higgins Hall.
• A full day of diverse conference panels, interactive workshops, and plenaries.
• An evening performance by Rev. Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping.
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Featured speakers include:

John Davis, Burlington Associates

Mindy Fullilove, NY State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University

Rachel LaForest, Right to the City Alliance

Erminia Maricato, University of São Paolo

Peter Marcuse, Columbia University

Marla Nelson, University of New Orleans

Miguel Robles-Durán, Parsons/New School

Tony Schuman, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Aixa Torres, Smith Houses Resident Association; and dozens more!

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Planners Network is an association of professionals, activists, academics, and students involved in physical, social, economic, and environmental planning in urban and rural areas, who promote fundamental change in our political and economic systems.

Architects / Designers / Planners for Social Responsibility works for peace, environmental protection, ecological building, social justice, and the development of healthy communities. ADPSR programs aim to raise professional and public awareness of critical social and environmental issues, further responsive design and planning, and honor persons and organizations whose work exemplifies social responsibility.

Next month, March 19-24, 2013, the University of Minnesota College of Design will host a first-of-its-kind Public Interest Design Week, the headline event of which is the thirteenth international Structures for Inclusion conference. The week will attract to the College of Design an array of people and groups working at the intersection of design and service. Together, we’ll reflect on the state of the public interest design field, imagine a vision for the future, and hone the skills needed to make that vision a reality.

Framing a range of lectures, panels, film screenings, and workshops, highlight events of Public Interest Design Week include:

Shelter: connect workshop, led by filmmakers Richard Neill and Lee Schneider of the Shelter Media Project, which builds participants’ media and storytelling skills;

Public Interest Design Institute (PIDI), led by Bryan Bell of Design Corps, which employs the Harvard Case Method to showcase projects that exemplify the Social/Economic/Environmental Design (SEED) principles;

Affordable Housing Design Forum, led by Katie Swenson of Enterprise Community Partners, which will convene leaders on the frontlines of affordable housing design and community development;

Structures for Inclusion (SFI) conference, now in its 13th year, which will feature presentations and discussions about products, places, and processes designed or redesigned for the public good; and

Social/Economic/Environmental Design (SEED) Awards presentations during SFI will recognize and showcase six finalist projects from Kenya, Indonesia, Sudan, and several states within the U.S.; and

Iconothon, a design hackathon of sorts, led by Sofya Polyakov and Edward Boatman of The Noun Project, will add to the public domain symbols that are frequently needed in public interest design.

Unless noted otherwise, all events take place in Rapson Hall, home of the College of Design on the University of Minnesota’s Minneapolis campus. Address: University of Minnesota, College of Design, Rapson Hall, 89 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455.

More information, as well as a working agenda for PID Week, are online at www.publicinterestdesign.org/week. To stay up-to-date on everything related to Public Interest Design Week, follow the College of Design and PublicInterestDesign.org online. The College can be found on Twitter at @UofMDesign, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/UofMDesign. PublicInterestDesign.org is on Twitter at @PubIntDesign, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/PubIntDesign.

Conference Sessions Announced

Read more about the 2012 AAO Conference sessions.

New Speakers Added

		Will Doig, Salon.com "Connecting with the Zeitgeist: Let's Talk about Cities" For the first time in a long time, America is fascinated by urban life. Question is where does design fit in all the conversation? "Dream City" columnist Will Doig shares ideas from his weekly adventures in public discourse.
		Susan Chin, Design Trust for Public Space "Connecting with Social Impact: Community Change through Design Partnerships" An insider's look at the Design Trust’s push for big impact. Learn how it helped spur the creation of New York City’s first purpose-built taxi cab (hitting NYC streets in 2013!), plus its upcoming plans to strengthen urban agriculture.
		Robert Ivy, American Institute of Architects "Connecting with Our Shared Future: The Work that Lies Ahead" In this year’s closing address, former Architectural Record editor-in-chief Robert Ivy offers a personal reflection on the resonant messages from the conference and the future opportunities for collaboration for all our organizations.

View the entire line-up of 2012 Conference presenters and panelists.

New this Year: Group Registration Discounts 

As we've heard from many AAO members, there's no better way to get the full learning benefits from our annual conference than by sending a pair or team of colleagues. You're guaranteed to meet more people, enjoy spontaneous staff discussions as you take in the conference content, and take back more ideas to share with your colleagues back home.

This year, when you sign-up multiple attendees, your organization gets $50 off the second conference pass, $75 off the third pass, and $100 off the fourth pass.

Early bird registration rates have been extended to October 1. Register now before the rates go up!

Room Block at the Magnolia Hotel

Check out the conference schedule, pre-conference meetings and tours, roster of speakers, venues and hotel room block info, and more at aaonetwork.org.

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Speakers
Conference Venues and Accommodations
Pre-Conference Tour
Pre-Conference A+DEN Meeting

Energy Efficient Homes: Tight and Healthy

Earn 1 HSW/SD CEH and 1 GBCI General CE Hour 

This presentation focuses on the new energy guidelines and how to make tight houses meet the ASHRAE Health Based Standard 62.2 related to fresh air requirements.

Speakers Camilo Parra, AIA, and Polly Ledvina, PhD, LEED AP Homes, discuss different climatic regions and passive design strategies for these regions. They outline the energy guidelines that apply to new house construction in the United States and review how some of the guidelines are not region specific. They discuss problems associated with achieving the energy guidelines with a house’s mechanical system and how these problems can be overcome. Lastly, they explain the ASHRAE Standard relative to fresh air. Stephen Schreiber, FAIA, moderates.

This September 10, 2012 presentation is a part of the ongoing Housing Knowledge Community research webinar series. View the complete series archive.

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Earn 1 HSW/SD CEH

In 2005, the Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Network was founded at a conference organized by the Harvard Loeb Fellowship.  The SEED Network established a professional community specifically with a public interest mission and a common set of principles to guide ethical community engagement.  In a 2011 poll of members of the American Institute of Architects funded by the FAIA Latrobe Prize, 77% agreed that this mission were appropriate for Public Interest Design:

Every person should be able to live in a socially, economically and environmentally healthy community.

To convert this mission and principles into design-based action, a new tool was developed, the SEED Evaluator. The SEED Evaluator is a communication tool that allows designers and communities to define design projects that address critical issues. The Evaluator provides for significant involvement of the community, resulting in greater transparency and accountability, and allows tracking a project through its entirety.  There are four broad benefits of using the SEED Evaluator:

1. Process: Provides a standard process for designers and communities to assess challenges, define priorities, set goals, and create design projects to address critical social, economic, and environmental issues.
2. The Evaluator functions as an on-line communication platform that can include multiple stakeholders and diverse community members in the process. Broad and diverse participation in a project is a requirement of the SEED Evaluator for a project to be determined as in the public’s interest.
3. Transparency: Progress towards success can be tracked on-line and in real time. The results of the project are made publicly visible in achieving these goals or not.
4. Accountability: Completion of the SEED Evaluator can lead to SEED Certification, which confirms, through a third-party review, the success of a design project in achieving the goals set by the community. SEED Certification has established a trustworthy method for the public, community organizers, civic leaders, designers, and funders to confirm the public interest aspects of design projects.

This October 8, 2012 presentation is a part of the ongoing Housing Knowledge Community research webinar series. View the complete series archive.

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A New Norris House

Earn 1 HSW CEH

Details to come.

This presentation is a part of the ongoing Housing Knowledge Community research webinar series. View the complete series archive.

Register Now at No Cost

September 6 - September 21, 2012

Occuprint in collaboration with the Center for Architecture
As part of the exhibition Beyond Zuccotti Park

CALL FOR ENTRIES: POSTERS
The Center for Architecture and Occuprint invite the public to expand the visual language and cultural expression of the conversation on public space and freedom assembly by submitting poster designs that provoke thought and dialogue. Tahrir Square, Pushkin Square, and Zuccotti Park have demonstrated the timeliness of the conversation.

Designs may consider the following questions:
What is the public and what are public spaces? How do we define and how are we defined by our public spaces? How can we design and build our public spaces to facilitate civic participation? What are the processes and mechanism of how public spaces are built and organized? How can we promote transparency in public space regulation and plurality in it use?

Participants may submit as many designs as they would like for digital display in the exhibition. Participants are also invited to take part in an open design critique hosted by Occuprint at the Center for Architecture on September 7, 2012. Occuprint will archive the designs for future viewing and use on their website. Our hope is for the posters to live on beyond the exhibit.

This open call is part of larger exhibition this September at The Center for ArchitectureundefinedBeyond Zuccotti Park a collaborative project by Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR), Center for Architecture / AIA New York Chapter, The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of the City University of New York, Pratt Programs for Sustainable Planning & Development, May Day Radio, Occuprint, and Occupy Town Square. The exhibition will investigate issues of public space and our right to assemble through publicly curated workshops, teach-ins, panels, discussions, and performances.

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Eligibility Guidelines
Any design that provokes thought and dialogue on democracy, equity, freedom of assembly, and public space.

Who Can Enter?
Open to the Public

Submission
Submit your poster design/s to the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, NY, NY 10012 by MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 5:00PM (EST).

HOW TO SUBMIT
Submission Requirements – FOR EACH POSTER DESIGN, PLEASE SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING ON A HARDCOPY DISC:

• Image file in Jpeg, Tiff or PDF format, either 300 dpi at 30 x 40” or vector file/EPS at 30 x 40”
• Completed Image Permission and Poster Credits Form (please include as a Word document on the disc) Click here to download the form. 
• SUBMIT BY MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 2012 at 5:00PM (EST).

If you have specific questions, please contact Juliana Barton, Exhibitions Coordinator, at jbarton@aiany.org or 212.358.6120.

RELATED PROGRAMMING:

Opening Reception
Thursday, September 6th, 2012, 7-9pm

Oculus Book Talk: Beyond Zuccotti Park
Monday, September 10th, 2012

Symposium
Sunday, September 16th, 11am-3pm

Mary White, Gilbert White Flood Memorial, Boulder, CO

July 17th, 6:00 pm–8:30 pm
AIA San Francisco, 130 Sutter Street, 6^th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94104 (Montgomery Street BART)

$8-10 donation, no one turned away for lack of funds

With intense sensitivity to beauty and pathos, artists conceive site works with unfettered imagination driven by playful passion.  Our mid-summer lecture is intended to evoke your imagination examining art that informs and art that remediates.  We'll see how public art can inspire adoption of sustainable practices.  In looking at where the funding for these efforts are found, we will ask how we can better integrate supportive social structures for keeping local artists working members of our everyday environments.

Kelli Pearson
Environmental Images

Kelli Pearson, consults with Economic Transformations Group on cluster-based sustainable regional economic development projects around the world, specializing in sustainable city planning and well-being tourism.  She is currently completing her MSc in Environmental Governance at the University of Freiburg, located in one of Europe’s “Greenest Cities.”  Her Thesis on the topic of “Ecological Restoration Artwork,” focuses on public artwork that restores or enhances ecosystem processes.  The underlying message is that governments, scientists and people from the community  can work together with nature and ecosystems as partners in creating flourishing natural and human environments, and that beauty and human creativity play an essential role.

Mary White
Precarious and Unpredictable Paths to the Inner Light
tornado poplar and recycled window glass, 2006

Mary Bayard White is the co-head of the Glass Department at the Crucible in West Oakland.  Mary, a Bay Area sculptor/arts educator, links art making and environmental issues, addressing issues of water resources, renewable energy, urban habitats for wild birds and affordable housing.  She believes in the power of regeneration, transformation and reuse, uses salvage materials in her work, and often works with many varieties of recycled glass, and found metal parts.  She is on the board of Women Environmental Artists Directory.

Josanna Borelli-Zavala
Metal Screen

Join us for a beautiful presentation of wonderful projects by environmental artists and imagine a few projects that could move remediation forward.

$8-10 Donation | No one turned away for lack of funds

Purchase tickets at:  http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/258984
Or RSVP: lecture@adpsr-norcal.org
ADPSR: http://www.adpsr.org/

Community Built Association 2012 Conference
May 30 - June 2 - Portland, Oregon

http://communitybuilt.org/conference/portland_2012

 
I would like to invite you to the Community Built Association’s 2012 Conference: Community Building in the Urban Village. This conference seeks to expand and deepen the practice of community engagement through the lenses of art, play, nature and the built environment. The conference is intended for anyone who is interested in engaging their community in collaborative works, from experts in the field to those exploring this way of working. It’s a place to share ideas, learn from each other, and get inspired to bring community building to our own cities and neighborhoods. Come join us!

This conference will feature discussions on community-engaged architecture, landscape, and planning from amazing teachers and practitioners:

Steve Badanes is widely known for his practice and teaching of design/build. He is a founding member of the Jersey Devil design/build practice,and is currently a Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington. www.jerseydevildesignbuild.com

Mark Lakeman, is founder of Communitecture, and has been a leader in galvanizing a movement of community place-makers through his work with the City Repair Project. communitecture.net, cityrepair.org/

Mikenko Matanovic is the founder of the Pomegranate Center, which works with communities to create beautiful gathering places in a true participatory practice. www.pomegranatecenter.org

Daniel Winterbottom, distinguished Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington whose has focused on the creation healing/restorative landscapes through participatory design/build. arch.be.washington.edu

Gwynne Pugh, whose Urban Studio specializes in urban design, planning, sustainability and consultation and is responsible for facilitating the park featured in the award-winning documentary The Park that Kids Built. www.gwynnepugh.com

The conference will also feature hands-on workshops, tours of community-built sites and discussion sessions.

Contact:

Katherine Ball

Co-coordinator - CBA 2012 Conference

WE ARE:
Reflections and Projections on the Legacy of Community Design

ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY DESIGN 2012 CONFERENCE
CALL FOR PROPOSALS   I   Submit by April 27^th

In 2011 we had the opportunity to celebrate twenty years of the Community Design Collaborative in Philadelphia all while in the midst of the Occupy movement fueled by frustration and outrage with the way our country was addressing inequity and privilege.

In 2012 we are returning to Salt Lake City, Utah to address how we engage inequity in our design practices and how we can channel the energy and awareness that is present in our communities to better bridge the economic and equality gaps through Community Design.

The Association for Community Design along with local partners ASSIST Utah and The Center for Living Cities welcome you to join us this June 8-10^th in Salt Lake City. Twenty years since the last time we visited the "The Crossroads of the West" in 1992 we will gather to discuss where Community Design has been and what we have learned in the process in order to project how community-based design practices may continue to be helpful in improving our built environment and the larger dialogs that shape it.

Where has community design practice been and where is it going?

What is our role in addressing the needs of the communities we serve?

What are the critical resources and collaborations needed to sustain a community design practice?

How do we develop a professional precedence for community designers?

Choose one of the following formats for sharing or exploring your work or ideas.

Presentation

Presentations will be 10-15 minutes in length and focus on best practices, lessons learned, and/or program outcomes. Feel free to propose a small group of presenters, or we will consider how your ideas plug in with other promising submissions.

[Presentation sessions will be 90 minutes including the speakers and moderated discussion follows.]

Workshop/Exchange

Do you have an idea, skill, or practice that is best modeled rather than talked about? Maybe you have a problem or idea related to community design that you would like to get a diverse group of really smart people to help you explore? This is your opportunity.

[Participatory Workshops will be 90 minutes. A Mobile Workshop should not exceed 3 hours.]

Submission Format

In 500 words or less, please describe how you would like to share or explore an exemplary idea, project or possibility involving collaboration as it relates to community and design.

Please be sure to specify the following:

List both how and what you would like to share or explore.

Contact info and resume or short bio.

Please e.mail your submission to events@communitydesign.org with the subject: ACD 2012 Proposal.

DEADLINE:

All submissions are due by April 27th, 2012. Applicants will be notified by May 1^st. Interested participants are encouraged to submit proposals before the deadline and will be responded to on a rolling clock basis. All participants in sessions – including local panelists – are required to register for the conference.