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This message was sent to ggo...@itu.edu.tr November 11, 2015     Home  |   About EDRA  |   Membership  |   Knowledge Networks Subscribe  |   Archive  |   Advertise   Search Past Issues | View Web Version | Advertise   Search Past Issues View Web Version Advertise    TOP NEWS Nov. 16 deadline approaches! EDRA47 Raleigh Call for Posters & EDRA Shorts EDRA Submissions are due Monday, Nov. 16 for peer-reviewed interactive display Posters and EDRA Shorts for EDRA47Raleigh. Present your latest environment and behavior research to your peers at EDRA's highly engaged poster sessions scheduled throughout the conference. Or, participate in the 3rd annual EDRA Shorts, which is fast becoming a conference highlight and all around favorite! Submit a poster and/or EDRA Shorts proposal. Can't decide which to submit? EDRA Shorts are dynamic and succinct presentations offering conference attendees a glimpse at research, design-related work or compelling topic areas. Each "Shorts" presenter has just six minutes to visually and verbally persuade and present using a selected media or combination of media in the form of slides, video, sound, animation, etc ... Posters profile your work using an engaging visual representation to be posted during one of several poster sessions. Posters should represent in-progress or completed research studies and/or research-informed environmental design projects and inquiries. Individuals or groups presenting posters are expected to be present during their session to informally host, discuss and address questions related to their poster’s content with other conference attendees. Poster presentations are an excellent outlet for researchers as well as professionals and students and for many, offer the opportunity to preview and dialogue about emerging work as it unfolds. Read the submission requirements outlined in the Call for Proposals. Questions? Contact edra47co...@ncsu.edu.    EDRA NEWS Opportunity for EDRA student members: A chance to win EDRA47Raleigh Student Design Award EDRA The EDRA Student Design Award recognizes an EDRA student member's (or team's) environmental design work at varying scales in the areas of urban design, landscape, architecture, interior and industrial design. To be eligible for consideration of this award, you must first have a Poster accepted and being presented at the upcoming EDRA47Raleigh conference. During the conference, an EDRA-appointed jury will review participating student Posters and winners will be selected and announced during the conference's closing EDRA awards ceremony. Submissions should highlight and demonstrate how an understanding of human interaction, use and experience can inform and inspire environmental design excellence. Submissions should be design projects, completed after January 2014, emphasizing and demonstrating a strong link between research and design. The First Prize recipient receives recognition along with a $500 travel voucher, complimentary EDRA conference registration fee, and one-year EDRA student membership. The Second Prize awardee, in addition to being recognized, receives a one-year EDRA student membership. Additional information on the Student Design Awards can be found on pages 7 and 8 of the Call for Proposals. Questions? Email edra47co...@ncsu.edu.    EDRA MEMBER NEWS EDRA members recognized and awarded by the American Society of Landscape Architects at Chicago Annual Meeting EDRA EDRA Board Secretary Paula Horrigan honored as 2015 ASLA Fellow EDRA Board Secretary Paula Horrigan was one of the 37 members of the American Society of Landscape Architects elevated to the ASLA Council of Fellows for 2015. Fellowship is among the highest honors the ASLA bestows on members and recognizes the contributions of individuals to their profession and society at large based on their works, leadership and management, knowledge and service. READ MORE EDRA member Randy Hester recognized as 2015 ASLA Community Service Award Recipient The American Society of Landscape Architects recognized EDRA member Randy Hester for providing sustained, pro bono service to the ASLA community, demonstrating sound principles and values of landscape architecture. Hester has been an active member of EDRA since 2013. READ HESTER'S NOMINATION Students receive awards at ASLA 2015 Exceptional student projects completed under the leadership and guidance of three of EDRA's community-engaged design educators and researchers were recognized with ASLA 2015 Student Awards in the category of Community. Students working with Landscape Architecture Professors Daniel Winterbottom at the University of Washington, Julie Stevens at the University of Iowa, and Kofi Boone at North Carolina State University received awards for their outstanding community-engaged work in Seattle, Mitchelville, Iowa and Ghana, Africa. Stevens’ students received the Award of Excellence for their work with the Iowa Correctional Institution and the project, Women Landscapes of Justice: Redefining the Prison Environment. Winterbottom's students received the Honor Award for their Seattle Kintsugi Garden: The Meaning of Mending. Boone's students received their Honor Award for the project Ghana International Design Studio: Playtime in Africa. Congratulations to Julie Stevens, Kofi Boone and Daniel Winterbottom for their outstanding community-engaged environmental design teaching, practice and research!    INDUSTRY NEWS Chicago: Support Blacks in Green's The Great Migration Garden Walk and Homesteader Heritage Studio Blacks in Green Blacks in Green, the Black Landscape Architecture Network, Prologue Schools, Inc., and the emerging Woodlawn Arts Council and West Woodlawn Historical Society honor and celebrate the wisdom, courage, and sacrifice of African Americans and their contribution to the culture and commerce of the City of Chicago. Journey with the group as they help bring the community into The Next 100 Years of the international heritage tourism destination that is Bronzeville and the Black Metropolis National Heritage Area. Help defray costs as a Community Sponsor for the "16 Great Migration Gardens of West Woodlawn" Click here to support as a community sponsor.  READ MORE America's 10 most walkable cities By Dave G. Houser A recent government study found that more than 37 million Americans rated walking as their favorite recreational pursuit. Stepping up to serve all those strollers is a group called America Walks — a national nonprofit organization that leads a coalition of advocacy groups sharing the vision for a more walkable nation. One of the functions of America Walks is assessing the walkability of U.S. cities. It scores and ranks more than 2,500 cities for walkability on a scale of 1-100.  READ MORE Miami takes aim at its plethora of parking CityLab When Andrew Frey looks around Miami he sees two main types of new development: high-rise condos downtown and single-family suburban subdivisions. Gone are the midsized, multi-family, art deco buildings found in historic areas like South Beach and Little Havana. Plenty of people still love that classic style, he says, but it's been effectively regulated out of existence by another of the city's great loves: the car.  READ MORE The city of Detroit: Divided, separate and unequal UTNE In late October, a few days after local news cameras swarmed Detroit's courthouse to hear closing arguments in the city's historic bankruptcy trial, "Commander" Dale Brown cruised through the stately Detroit neighborhood of Palmer Woods in a Hummer emblazoned with the silver, interlocking-crescent-moon logo of his private security company.  READ MORE A roof for everyone Metropolis Affordable housing is once again among the major topics of discussion for architects and designers, especially in New York City, where most residents have felt the squeeze of exorbitant rents. Designing Affordability: Quicker, Smarter, More Efficient Housing Now, on view at the Center for Architecture through January 16, delivers a wide-ranging survey of potential solutions for the world's housing woes, with a focus on 23 conceptual and built projects curated by Marc Norman, a Loeb Fellow at Harvard GSD.  READ MORE Configuring for collaboration Healthcare Design Healthcare is moving away from individual encounters with single clinicians and toward coordinated, integrated care by high-performing teams. This is particularly true in the outpatient environment and for healthcare systems pursuing patient-centered medical home models of care.  READ MORE North Shore BRT: $5 million secured for environmental, design work SILive.com Staten Island is one step closer to getting the city's first true bus rapid transit system. A total of $5 million in funding for environmental and design work has been secured for the North Shore Bus Rapid Transit project in the authority's new $29 billion, five-year capital program.  READ MORE UN officials say good urban design key to ensuring sustainable, inclusive cities UN News Centre On the occasion of World Cities Day, top United Nations officials are highlighting the key role of urban design in building sustainable, socially integrated and prosperous cities and human settlements. "Good design can help tackle climate change. It reduces the impacts of disaster. It can help make our cities safer, cleaner, and more equal and integrative. It promotes equal access to services, jobs and opportunities, and fosters contentment," Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in his message for the Day.  READ MORE Penn's architecture major builds community The Daily Pennsylvanian The undergraduate architecture program at Penn is as much about building community as it is designing structures. In the Charles Addams Fine Arts Hall, students spend four and a half hours in studio twice a week working on design projects and receiving feedback on their work. These projects are not always directly related to tangible buildings, and many of them entail taking an inspirational study and using that to create an analog of a structure.  READ MORE What urban design reveals about economic development The Wharton School Every city tells a story. More specifically, the geographical shape of an urban area is key to understanding its economic development. Is it compact and circular, making life more efficient for residents and businesses? Or is it marked by spatial sprawl, resulting in longer commutes? Mariaflavia Harari, Wharton professor of real estate, explores this notion in her forthcoming paper, "Cities in Bad Shape: Urban Geometry in India."  READ MORE Green design: New house raises tilapia, monitors water use Nature World News A university team competing in the recent Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon competition has built a house that runs on rainwater and sunshine. What, no love? Called NexusHaus, it was on display at the recent competition in Irvine, California, according to an article in Builder Online.  READ MORE Environment By Design Connect with EDRA Recent Issues | Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Advertise | Web Version  Colby Horton, Vice President of Publishing, 469-420-2601 | Download media kit Esther Cho, Content Editor, 469-420-2671 | Contribute news Environmental Design Research Association Contact Us  Learn how to add us to your safe sender list so our emails get to your inbox. 7701 Las Colinas Ridge, Ste. 800, Irving, TX 75063