[URBANTH-L] Call for Entries: Celebrating Excellent Places and How People Inhabit Them

[Angela Jancius]

EDRA/Places Awards 2008
in cooperation with Metropolis

Celebrating excellent places and how people inhabit them
Call for Entries - Deadline: February 7, 2008

Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm and the Environmental Design 
Research Association announce the eleventh annual EDRA/Places Awards for 
Place Design, Planning and Research - this year in cooperation with 
Metropolis Magazine. Unique in the ever-expanding universe of award 
programs, our concern is for good places and how people inhabit them.

We seek entries of exemplary work, inviting participation from a range of 
design and research disciplines, recognizing projects whose significance 
extends beyond any one profession or field. Projects should emphasize a link 
between research and practice, demonstrating how an understanding of human 
interaction with place can inspire design.


Awards recognize:

Design: Excellence in human environments, completed projects.
Planning: Proposals for future design, use, or management of a place.
Research: Projects investigating relationships between design, human 
behavior, culture, and experience.

New this year:
Book: Recently published books advancing the critical understanding of place 
and design of exceptional environments.

Jurors:
Dennis Frenchman, Professor of Urban Design and Planning, MIT
Leanne Rivlin, Professor, Environmental Psychology Doctoral Program, CUNY
Fritz Steiner, Dean of the School of Architecture, University of Texas at 
Austin
Susan S. Szenasy, Editor in Chief, Metropolis
Jane Weinzapfel FAIA, Principal, Leers Weinzapfel Associates Architects

For information visit
http://edra.org/
www.places-journal.org