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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 10:43:20 -0700
To: Treetown@majordomo.flora.com
From: Mary Bedard <mlbedard@ucdavis.edu>
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Here is another forwarded message regarding an award program (read $$$),
which might include urban forestry projects.
Please let me know if my forwarding this type of information is
inappropriate to this list.
It's sunny and in the 70's in California's Central Valley, and my
pecan-in-a-tub is turning ruby red!
Cheers,
Mary
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>From: PlacePratt@aol.com
>Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 17:31:54 -0400 (EDT)
>Subject: Place Design/Research Awards
>
>Dear Colleague,
>
>Following is information on a new awards program being sponsored by the
>design journal Places and the Environmental Design Research Association. This
>message explains the eligibility criteria and how to enter. There is an
>application form at the end of the message. If you would like us to send you
>our brochure, which includes the same information, please let us know by
>return email.
>
>----------------------------------------
>
>Awards for Place Design and Place Research
>
>Call for Entries
>
>The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) and the journal Places
>announce an award program that will recognize the best in environmental
>design research and practice today and highlight the relationship between
>place-based research and design.
>
>There are two award categories. Place Research awards recognize projects that
>investigate the relationship between physical form and human behavior or
>experience. Place Design awards recognize completed projects that demonstrate
>excellence as human environments. Up to three projects in each category will
>be selected for recognition.
>
>Anybody can submit a nomination. We encourage nominations from designers,
>scholars, researchers, public officials and citizens; and especially from
>fields like architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, planning,
>interior design, lighting design, graphic design, environmental psychology,
>sociology, anthropology and geography. There is no limit to the location of
>research or design projects. Projects must have been completed within the
>last five years. Projects that have already been published can be nominated.
>
>Winners will be announced and awards will be presented at EDRA's March, 1998,
>conference in St. Louis. Winning entries will be published in the summer,
>1998, issue of Places.
>
>JURY
>
>Gary Hack, Dean, School of Design, University of Pennsylvania; Lawrence
>Halprin, landscape architect; Donlyn Lyndon, FAIA, Editor of Places and
>Chair, Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley; Clare
>Cooper Marcus, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of California,
>Berkeley; Samina Quraeshi, Shephard Quraeshi, Cambridge, Ma.
>
>SCHEDULE
>
>All entries must be received in the EDRA offices by November 14, 1997.
>
>SPONSORS
>
>EDRA is a national organization of design professionals, social scientists
>and scholars. Its conferences and publications explore the relationship
>between people and their physical surroundings, suggesting how environmental
>design can be more responsive to human needs.
>
>Places, a Forum of Environmental Design, is an internationally-circulated
>journal that covers architecture, landscape architecture, city design and
>environmental art. It is sponsored by Pratt Institute and the College of
>Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley.
>
>This program is supported by funding from The Graham Foundation.
>
>PLACE RESEARCH
>
>Criteria
>
>Place research awards recognize projects that study the design, use or
>management of places; pay special attention to the relationship between
>physical form and human activity or experience; and seek to inform design
>practice. All types of research can be nominated, including studies that
>provide background for specific designs or plans, evaluate recent projects,
>or document the form and use of established places.
>
>Projects should enrich our understanding of how people interact with places
>from a behavioral, social or cultural perspective, how people experience
>places, or processes through which places are designed, occupied and managed.
>
>Projects should consider traditional public places like streets, parks and
>squares; quasi-public places, like campuses, religious or commercial
>facilities; or private places that have a social nature or purpose, such as
>offices or special housing facilities. They should address a question of
>social importance or explore how designs can be configured to serve a broader
>constituency.
>
>Research methods and findings should be carefully documented and clearly
>communicated. Projects should be grounded in the context of recent literature
>and practice, be repeatable and be able to be validated by peer review.
>Projects can revisit previous research, confirming, extending or challenging
>earlier findings. They should have broad applicability, informing design
>practice or teaching or setting the stage for further research.
>
>Submission Requirements
>
>With each nomination, include a statement that is no more than two pages and
>500 words long, covering the following questions:
>
>(1) Describe the site involved, the client for the study (if any), the
>research question and methodology, and the findings.
>(2) How does this project address our understanding of human interaction with
>or experience of places?
>(3) What issues and places of social importance does this research consider?
>(4) How are the findings transferable to the design of places, the teaching
>of design, or the framing of further research?
>
>PLACE DESIGN
>
>Criteria
>
>Nominations can consist of individual structures, spaces or elements, or of
>multiple structures, spaces or elements that work together as a unit. They
>can involve the design of something new or the reuse of existing resources.
>
>Places must be recognizable as distinct within a larger fabric of
>relationships. The scale could be large or small, ranging from a local street
>to a civic boulevard, a community park to a regional greenway, a single room
>to a cluster of buildings and spaces, a monument to a family of streetscape
>elements.
>
>Projects should help improve its setting by advancing a larger plan,
>repairing an unsatisfactory relationship or adding something that a previous
>design failed to provide. They should address a question of social
>importance, involve a place that is meaningful to a community or advances a
>societal goal, or explore how design can be configured to serve a broader
>constituency. They should address the interaction of people and the built
>environment.
>
>Projects must have been completed within the last five years, with preference
>for those completed long enough to assess how well they function for
>inhabitants and/or users.
>
>Submission Requirements
>
>With each nomination, include a statement that is no more than two pages and
>500 words long, covering the following questions:
>
>(1) Describe the places and its surroundings, the client, the scope of work
>and the design process.
>(2) How does this project contribute to the ongoing design or transformation
>of a larger place? How does it encourage multiple kinds of investment over
>time?
>(3) What issues and places of social importance does this project consider?
>(4) What evidence is there that this project is important or special to its
>inhabitants or users?
>(5) What aspects of, or lessons from, this project are transferable or
>applicable to other projects?
>(6) What research background was useful in designing this place? What
>research questions would be pertinent in evaluating it? What research could
>be done that would help make a future project of this sort even more
>successful?
>
>SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL ENTRIES
>
>1. Submissions must be received in the EDRA offices by November 14, 1997.
>Please send to:
>Janet Singer
>Environmental Design Research Association
>1616 E. 19th St.
>P.O. Box 7146
>Edmond, OK 73083-7146
>405-330-4863
>2. Each submission must be accompanied by an official entry form.
>Reproductions of the form are acceptable.
>3. Submissions must be accompanied by a two-page (maximum 500 words) project
>statement, described above.
>4. Entrants are encouraged to submit any additional materials (documents,
>drawings, slides, letters of support) they feel necessary to explain the
>project fully. Supplemental material must be placed in a standard binder (10
>x 13 inches) no more than one-inch thick.
>5. Documents and written material must be submitted in English.
>6. Submissions must be accompanied by a registration fee. The fee for each
>nomination is $80; the fee for nominations from EDRA members or Places
>subscribers is $50. Checks must be payable to EDRA.
>7. Entrants who want their materials returned must enclose an express
>delivery airbill with account number or pre-payment indicated. EDRA cannot
>accept liability for original drawings or the return of any materials
>submitted.
>8. Judging will take place in December, 1997, and winners will be notified in
>early January.
>9. To maintain anonymity in judging, no names of entrants or collaborating
>parties may appear on any part of the submission except the entry form.
>Elsewhere, credits must be concealed by tape or other simple means. Do not
>conceal the identity or location of projects.
>10. Drawings, photographs and other materials submitted for winning projects
>will be used for unrestricted publicity. Each entrant must clear all
>drawings, photographs and slides included in submission for future re-use and
>reproduction by EDRA/Places. Entrants are responsible for any royalties or
>copyright fees.
>11. Public announcement of the award will be made at a special event during
>EDRA's 1997 annual meeting in St. Louis, March 4-8, 1998. Winning entries
>will be published in the summer, 1998, issue of Places.
>12. Places is granted first opportunity to publish winning submissions in
>English-language periodical form.
>13. Nominators of winning entries agree to make available further information
>and graphic material as requested by Places.
>
>Please address any further questions regarding entries to:
>
>Todd W. Bressi, Executive Editor
>Places, A Forum of Environmental Design
>110 Higgins Hall
>Pratt Institute School of Architecture
>20 Willoughby Avenue
>Brooklyn, New York 11205
>718-399-6090
><placepratt@aol.com>
>
> Deadline: November 14, 1997
>
>Mail Entries to:
>Janet Singer
>Environmental Design Research Association
>1616 E. 19th St.
>P.O. Box 7146
>Edmond, OK 73083-7146
>405-330-4863
>
> OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM
>Entry for Place Research Award
>___ $80
>___ $50 member/Places subscriber
>
>Entry for Place Design Award
>___ $80
>___ $50 EDRA member/Places subscriber
>
>
>Subscription to Places
>___ $30 (one year, three issues)
>
>Membership in EDRA
>___ $100
>
>
>Total enclosed: $__________
>Please make checks payable to EDRA.
>
>Signature of Nominator
>Name
>Organization/firm/school
>Address
>City State Zip
>Telephone
>Fax
>Email
>[ ] Places subscriber
>[ ] EDRA member
>
Mary Bedard
Landscape Architecture Program
152 Walker Hall
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8585
Phone: (916)752-4119