About the Summit on the Value of Design: Design & Health

At the intersection of public health and the built environment lies an extraordinary and timely opportunity. In April 2014, the AIA, AIA Foundation and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) will host an industry summit entitled: The Value of Design: Design and Health. The summit will convene diverse design, policy, and public health practitioners, government and non-government organizations, universities, and for-profit businesses to explore questions including:

• What part of public health belongs to design?

• How do we drive design into codes and standards to intentionally achieve positive health outcomes?

• How can design solutions address a wide range of health outcomes as a question of equity?

Call for Abstracts for Design and Research Projects

The American Institute of Architects (AIA), AIA Foundation, and Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) invite the submission of abstracts of ongoing or recently completed design and research projects that address the intersection of design and human health. The projects should propose solutions to specific conditions or use quantitative or qualitative methods to document the positive impact of design interventions on human health.

The submissions are for an April 2014 summit funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts entitled The Value of Design: Design and Health, initiated by the AIA’s Design and Health Leadership Group.

Abstracts are due Wednesday, February 12. Following a blind peer review by a panel of educators and practitioners, authors of accepted abstracts will be notified March 5 and invited to submit either a complete paper or a poster by April 2, 2014. The final materials will frame the Design and Health conversation and form the basis of a digital and print publication released after the meeting. A limited number of authors will also be invited to participate in the summit in person.

Authors must submit abstracts online at ACSA’s website (acsa-arch.org). Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and must be formatted for blind peer review with no identifying information in the text. Abstracts should be text only and not include images. Authors should clearly describe the design or research project, its link to health issues described below, and the outcomes documented. Reports from firm-based projects, design studio courses, community design centers, university research centers, and affiliated disciplines are encouraged.

The full call for papers can be found here.

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