Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility

Winners announced for the 2012 Mumford Awards

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2012 Lewis Mumford Awards, to be given on March 24th in Austin, Texas.  The winners are:

Peace:  The Nobelity Project
Environment:  The Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems
Development:  Project Row House

For more information visit
http://adpsr.org/home/mumford_awards

ADPSR gives three annual Lewis Mumford Awards for Peace, Environment, and Sustainble Development. The 19th annual awards ceremony will be held March 24th in Austin, Texas, in conjunction with the Structures For Inclusion Conference (https://designcorps.org/sfi-conference/)

We extend a hearty congratulations and thanks for the great work of these terrific organizations.

ADPSR Supports the Occupy Movement

1. We support the right of citizens to peaceful protests and freedom of expression.
2. We support the principle of non-violent actions for social change.
3. We support the use of public space for political expressions and dialogues.
4. We stand in solidarity with communities and activist organizations around the world seeking democracy and economic, environmental and social justice.
5. We call architects, designers, landscape architects, and planners to support the Occupy Movement through individual and collective actions.

Read ADPSR's full support statement.

ADPSR 2011 International Green Schoolyards Conference

New Village Press/ADPSR and the San Francisco Green Schoolyards Alliance jointly hosted a hugely successful Engaging Our Grounds, International Green Schoolyards Conference September 16-18, 2011, at multiple sites in the SF Bay Area. The conference featured presentations by leaders of a growing worldwide movement to transform schoolgrounds into living ecological oases for learning and play. Conference director was Sharon Danks, environmental designer and author of Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation.

NorCal ADPSR Event:
Service-Learning in Design and Planning: Educating at the Boundaries

May 22, 6:00 pm–8:30 pm
AIA San Francisco,

Tom Angotti, Michael Rios and Jodi Rios will discuss how urban planning and architecture educators can challenge traditional community-university relationships by modeling meaningful and reciprocal partnerships. Released this winter, Service-Learning in Design and Planning is a ground-breaking collection of fifteen case studies by design educators who critically explore the current practice of community-engaged learning in architecture, landscape design, and urban planning, and radically revising the standard protocol for university-initiated design/build projects in the community.

Read more:  http://adpsr.org/home/norcal

Toward a Just Metropolis

ADPSR in partnership with Planners Network, The Association for Community Design, and the Center for the Living City produced Toward a Just Metropolis, a 2010 conference dedicated to a just future for all human settlements.

More than 450 planners, architects, designers, urban activists, educators, journalists, policymakers, academics, students, and concerned citizens from diverse backgrounds across North America attended. All shared a passion for social, economic, and environmental justice, and were committed to exchanging their experiences and visions for robust civic engagement, innovative planning, and inclusive community building.
The four-day event was held at various sites throught the SF Bay Area and hosted by the Department of City and Regional Planning and the College of Environmental Design (CED) at the University of California, Berkeley.