Forum of design for the Design for the Public Realm, andrelated activities, fosters discussion in multiple voices, with strongimagery and language that is clear and accessible, crossing generalinterests, professions and scholarly disciplines.

Goals and Obectives:

1. To foster debate aboutenvironmental design from the discussion of buildings, landscapes andart projects as singular, visual objects to the consequences they havein the environments that surround our lives.

2.To offer a forum that is equally accessible to designers, scholars,public officials and citizens - "to everybody who creates places,manages places, studies society and place and, most importantly,experiences places.

3. To explore the multiplemeanings of place, and the multiple ways that ideas about place are putin service in a pluralistic society and diverse world. To cultivatedialogue among differing constructs for understanding, operating in anddirecting change in the built and natural environment.

4.To focus attention on the often neglected public realm. To ask howdesign can be a catalyst for creating neighborhoods, parks, streets,workplaces, infrastructure and other facilities and spaces that sustainour civic and social lives.

5. To change the waycitizens, professionals and scholars construct their sense ofresponsibility to the environment. To examine how approaches toresearch, design and caring for places can support the well-being ofindividuals, our communities, our society and culture.

6. To inform and expand definitions of place and public space.