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EDRA to partner with Coulter Nonprofit Management: a new partnership to elevate EDRA's organizational efforts |
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The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA), the leading organization in environmental design research, is pleased to announce its new and exciting partnership with Coulter Nonprofit Management. The McLean-based Coulter Nonprofit Management (a division of The Coulter Companies) will position the organization to streamline its business and strategic operations. Leading this venture, Kate O’Donnell will serve as EDRA’s Executive Director and will work closely with the organization’s ten-member Board of Directors to promote, elevate and extend EDRA’s vision and commitment to its members.
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EDRA42Chicago submission deadline is one month away |
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The submission deadline for EDRA42Chicago is exactly one month away! The call for papers has been extended slightly since it was distributed at EDRA41 in DC. Please download an updated call here. And please note that we are going to hold tight to the October 1 deadline for parallel session submissions.
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By Roger K. Lewis
In: The Washington Post
Saturday, June 19, 2010
"Georgetown's Social Safeway is a Monument to Changing Supermarket Structure"
"The recently rebuilt "Social Safeway" on Wisconsin Avenue NW, at the northern edge of Georgetown [in Washington, DC], is not just another remodeled supermarket. It represents a positive evolution in thinking about merchandising strategy and about being a good citizen through pedestrian-friendly architecture and urban design.
This new supermarket follows a completely different set of rules than its predecessor. Safeway and other supermarket chains traditionally have adhered dogmatically to rules about selection of sites for stores and, in particular, rules about how such sites should be developed. And one of the primary rules was: Cars rule"
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Activist architecture and transformative design in NY, Mumbai, Bangalore and the Mississippi Delta |
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In: Places - The Design Observer Group
Preparing Ground: An Interview with Anuradha Mathur + Dilip da Cunha
"Anuradha Mathur and Dilip da Cunha are principals of the design firm Mathur/da Cunha, based in Philadelphia and Bangalore. Trained in architecture and landscape architecture, at the Center for Environmental Planning and Technnology in Ahmedabad and the University of Pennsylvania, Mathur is associate chair of landscape architecture at the Penn School of Design. Trained in architecture and planning, at Bangalore University, the School of Planning and Architecture at New Delhi, Berkeley and MIT, da Cunha is on the faculty of the Parsons School of Design and the Penn School of Design.
In more than a decade of interdisciplinary practice, as designers, teachers and writers, Mathur and da Cunha have focused on the cultural and ecological issues of contested landscapes. In projects, exhibitions and books, they have sought answers to seemingly simple but difficult and indeed fundamental questions — what is a river? where is the city? Their answers often take the form of intricate and original visualizations — what they term "photoworks" and "photowalks," sectional drawings and collages that at once construct and peel away the many layers of complex landscapes."
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