AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: Resilient Futures

{"version":"0.3.0","atoms":[],"cards":[],"markups":[["strong"],["a",["href","https:\/\/www.acsa-arch.org\/","target","_new"]],["em"]],"sections":[[1,"p",[[0,[0],1,"Conference Dates: October 6th and 7th, 2022"]]],[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the "],[0,[1],1,"Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture"],[0,[],0," (ACSA) are pleased to announce the third annual joint AIA\/ACSA Intersections Research Conference dedicated to the intersection of Education, Research and Practice. This two-day virtual conference will include dynamic presentations of current research and keynotes and sessions offering new ideas, models for practice, and challenging our profession in addressing the critical issue of climate and resilience. Intersections research conferences are intended to strengthen the intersection between academia and design practice, especially when it comes to research and innovation\u2014with this year\u0027s focus being resilience strategies."]]],[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"The conference offers four tracks focused on "],[0,[0,0],1,"RESILIENT FUTURES"],[0,[],1,":"],[0,[],0," "]]],[1,"p",[[0,[0,0],1,"E"],[0,[],1,"quitable Futures: "],[0,[],0,"A resilient future includes multiple and diverse perspectives, actively empowering under-represented populations through inclusive processes that ensure equitable outcomes for all. Contributions to this track may address strategies to promote societal, economic, environmental, and racial equity \u0026 inclusion in the built environment and public realm."]]],[1,"p",[[0,[0,0],1,"H"],[0,[],1,"ealthy Futures: "],[0,[],0,"A resilient future protects individual and community health while expanding the definition of design for health to include previously under-represented topics and issues. Contributions to this track may address efforts to redefine public health, mental health, inclusion, accessibility, and mobility to incorporate resilience."]]],[1,"p",[[0,[0,0],1,"E"],[0,[],1,"ngaged Futures: "],[0,[],0,"A resilient future demands new models of engagement and decision-making capable of identifying and responding to shared challenges as they arise. Contributions to this track may address trajectories for the design of robust community engagement strategies, public policies, and management strategies for building resilient teams, practices, financial and insurance mechanisms, codes, laws, and projects."]]],[1,"p",[[0,[0,0],1,"E"],[0,[],1,"xpanded Futures: "],[0,[],0,"A resilient future forges new forms of partnership, enlisting new technologies and collaborators beyond the confines of disciplinary endeavors. Contributions to this track may address interdisciplinary, interspecies, and\/or trans-human collaborations in the production of new resilient tools, materials, methods, workflows, and partnerships."]]],[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"The acceleration of climate change and climate migration has created an unprecedented diversity of challenges that our built environment and communities must face in the coming decades. This acceleration is matched by a growing diversity of research and design efforts to counteract these challenges\u2014both in academia and practice\u2014centered around concepts of resiliency."]]],[1,"h3",[[0,[],0,"Conference co-chairs: "]]],[3,"ul",[[[0,[0],1,"Gail Napell, AIA,"],[0,[],0," Firmwide Design Resilience Co-Leader, Senior Associate at Gensler"]],[[0,[0],1,"Stephen Mueller, "],[0,[],0,"Research Assistant Professor at Texas Tech University\u0027s College of Architecture"]]]],[1,"p",[[0,[0],1,"Keynote Speaker"],[0,[],0,":"]]],[1,"p",[[0,[0],1,"Amale Andraos"],[0,[],0,", co-founded WORKac in 2003 with Dan Wood. She is a principal of the firm and a professor and dean emerita at Columbia University where she currently serves as an advisor to the president on the University\u2019s Climate Initiatives and the Climate School. Andraos is recognized as an architecture thought leader and lectures widely. Her publications include"],[0,[2],1," The Arab City: Architecture and Representation"],[0,[],0,", a critical engagement of contemporary architecture and urbanism in the Middle East; "],[0,[2],1,"We\u2019ll Get There When We Cross That Bridge"],[0,[],0,", an overview of the firm\u2019s first fifteen years of practice, and "],[0,[2],1,"49 Cities"],[0,[],0,", a re-reading of 49 visionary urban plans through an ecological lens. Andraos is currently chair of the Aga Khan Award and president of the Phi Contemporain International Competition. She has served on the selection committee for the Walton Family Foundation\u2019s Northwest Arkansas Design Excellence program and is currently serving on the board of the Architectural League of New York, and the Advisory Council for the New Museum\u2019s incubator space, New Inc. She is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (FRAIC). Andraos was born in Beirut, Lebanon."]]],[1,"p",[]],[1,"p",[]]]}