WMIG 2010 - general notes
Jared Silliker
NBBJ with their many Halloween decorations!
Much of meeting focused on how we might integrate WMIG with Living
Future. This also provided good debate about our format and schedule.
Our current thinking:
Wednesday before Living Future (May 5): Jury meets and then hosts
project team interviews. This would be an optional event for Living
Future attendees and open to all local folks.
Thu or Fri during Living Future (May 6 or 7): If accepted, the jury
would curate a session to highlight themes and trends they found in
jurying WMIG submittals. Winners would not necessarily be announced.
Short-listed team members could be invited to speak, answer questions,
etc.
Late May or June: Full WMIG social event with winners recognized.
This arrangement would theoretically help our jury recruitment, as
national figures could also attend the popular LF conference. We'd
also give WMIG extra exposure while also retaining our own event
separate from LF.
I will post the session abstract that we submitted to LF ... just know
that it's super basic (last-minute effort to officially be in the
mix). Margaret, Janet and I are meeting with Cascadia to further
discuss this plan, so we'll know more at our next meeting.
We also talked about the regional component of WMIG, an important and
distinguishing feature. One action item—Carl will lead a compilation
of regional chapter contacts. We hope to connect with these folks and
explore ways to promote WMIG. We also hope that these conversations
will yield ideas for how to best provide fair and feasible virtual
elements to WMIG.
Another action item—we need a one-pager to summarize WMIG. Any takers?
Last year's guidelines (recently posted) has some good starter
material.
Please chime in with color commentary from last week or with follow-up
ideas, questions, etc.
-Jared
Jared Silliker
noted above. It's all very open-ended, but hopefully you get the
gist...
Jared Silliker
A quick update as we dig into a busy month of January. Margaret and I
will collect lots of great work from the criteria committee and
assemble a first draft of the Call for Entries. We'll be looking for a
few reviewers in the coming weeks, with a goal to deliver final text
to AIA by January 13 (final release is slated for Jan 25).
We'll have full meetings on January 8 and 22—again at NBBJ at 8 a.m.
And a few more key notes and highlights:
1. Lots of great criteria revisions! I'm confident that we'll be much
more clear to submitters in 2010. We also added two categories
(community and inspiration).
2. Pushing the envelope. We now have two mandatory criteria (energy
use intensity and integrated design process description)
3. Keeping it fresh. We will encourage slidecast (video) submittals as
an optional/supplemental element. We'll also facilitate video
conference calls for short-listed project teams that can not travel to
Seattle. Finally, we hope video record as much as possible on May 5
(pending a final budget review). We'll need help from the legacy sub-
committee to fine tune how exactly we'll use this content moving
forward.
4. Leveraging Living Future. Our jury interviews will take place on
the arrival day for Living Future. The Bertha Knight Landes room will
provide ample room for many conference and general public attendees.
We also hope the LF connection will aid our jury recruitment. Lastly,
the short-listed projects will be on display for Living Future
attendees, who will vote for a "people's choice" award.
5. Score a vibrant jury. We have a solid list and have started to
prioritize. Please continue to post your suggestions and we'll post
updates on invites and confirmations.
6. Celebrate. In addition to the legacy discussions, we also need a
group to start planning the awards reception. Tentative dates
discussed are June 1-3 (the week before AIA National in Miami). Please
chime in if you're interested ... and let's plan a sub-committee
meeting at our full meeting on Friday.
One final reminder ... please chime in on logo ideas (see separate
thread). We need to submit our thoughts to AIA this week.
THANKS,
Jared