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Children acting out the shapes of structures as part of the Boston Children’s museum ‘Camp on the Channel', a collaboration between the Boston Society of Architects and Adaptive Environments.
This collaboration between Adaptive Environments, the Boston Society of Architects' Learning by Design in Massachusetts program, and several community organizations will engage young people in two Boston neighborhoods to learn about applying universal design principles in Boston's first new neighborhood in 150 years, the South Boston Waterfront.
The one-hour documentary about Sam Mockbee's work at The Rural Studio will be used as a catalyst to bring together university architecture programs and students, local and state housing agencies, and their local community groups concerned with housing, to encourage them to consider Rural-Studio types of programs within their own communities.
The goal of this project is to instigate public discussion of the urban and rural design of coastal communities in the Gulf of Maine ecosystem. The project uses the visual impact of "Build-Out Analysis" to raise the large-scale issues of density in a public forum by presenting models depicting the maximum permissible build-out of existing zoning regulations.
Through a series of lectures and roundtables made into a set of videotapes, the collaborating organizations - Davis Downtown Business Association, City of Davis, and Davis Community Television - seek to bring the abstract and remote topics of "historic preservation" and "historic resources" down to the level of practical instructions and actions for residents of Davis, California.
Downtown Ohio will co-sponsor two design workshops, one in a small town downtown district and the other in an urban neighborhood commercial district. These forums will provide an opportunity to bring design professionals from diverse backgrounds to the doorstep of the host community, armed with experience and ready to tackle design challenges by providing all participants with the necessary design principles and technical tools, as well as suggestions on specific design-related issues.
ECHO will develop an Adirondack Heritage educational program for use in grades four through six, to help children develop an awareness of the relationship between the built and the unique natural environment of the Adirondack Park.
This project will develop, fabricate, and implement testing and evaluation of five prototype kits for use in both formal and informal education settings in the Washington, DC, metro area. The teaching kit, Inside Outdoor Sculpture, will use outdoor sculpture as a catalyst for hands-on exploration of science, history, and art, integrating public monuments with the built environment.
This project will develop a six-week-long architectural curriculum for after-school programs that focuses a week each on integrating architecture with the study of math, science, history, writing, technology, and art. A local artist will lead students through the design process for a sculpture at the school. The goal is a curriculum that can be implemented through any of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers established across America through a U.S. Department of Education initiative.
The grant will help fund scholars investigating the sacramental records, congregational history, and the history of the "negro pews" in 19th century New York churches. The research will culminate in a sourcebook that will provide the basis for interpreting the Slave Gallery space at St. Augustine's Church, an African American Episcopal Church.
This project trains inner-city youth in sustainable community development and design, community building, and professional readiness. The grant will support development of a model year-round curriculum for the EcoDesign Corps. The year-round EcoDesign Corps will be designed to provide four years of continuous training for high school students working up to a Senior Fellowship, which will include an internship placement with a professional architect, urban planner, or community organizer.
This grant supports a Web-based digital exhibition to document the wide range of initiatives undertaken over the years by Architecture and Design faculty demonstrating the integration of the University's teaching, research, and service missions, as well as reinforcing goals of the architectural education outlined in the Boyer Report.
The Design Institute intends to address the current need for better-designed housing in Vermont's urban and rural communities. Workshops will give participants the opportunity to work on "prototypes" submitted by local municipalities or non-profits. The conference will involve citizens, civic leaders, architects, local state planners, housing specialists, land conservationists, and students.
The grant will help fund outreach activities for the next segment in WQED's Pittsburgh History Series, a local television documentary examining the Oakland section of the city. Curriculum based on the documentary will be placed on WQED's Web site as an initiative of the WQED Learning Center and will be offered to teachers in western Pennsylvania. WQED will work with the Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its design professionals to help plan content for the classroom video modules and the Web site to enhance the elements of design shown in the documentary.
This project will produce community education resources for grades five through twelve. The overall education kit will raise the community's IQ regarding downtown revitalization and urban sprawl, and the need for historic preservation as a major aspect of sustainable planning.
CNA Insurance Companies and Victor O. Schinnerer & Company, Inc., sponsored the 2001 grants program. The CNA and Schinnerer professional liability insurance programs are commended by The American Institute of Architects and sponsored by the AIA Trust.
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