smARTpowerSM engages a diverse range of American visual artists to work with communities around the world to create community-based projects. The artists will collaborate with local artists and young people in China, Ecuador, Egypt, Ghana, India, Kosovo, Lebanon, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Turkey and Venezuela. Focusing on direct community engagement that encourages dialogue, experimentation and creativity, this program is designed to stimulate discourse around local or global social issues including the environment, education, health, girls and women’s issues and freedom of expression.
The inaugural program—designed and funded by ECA and administered by the Bronx Museum of the Arts—will kick off in Spring/Summer 2011. The call for applications is now open. Applications are available online until February 28, 2011.
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Intelligent Cities Initiative
The National Building Museum announced the launch of its Intelligent Cities initiative. Over the next 12 months, the project will explore how data and information technology are changing cities. Information surrounds us - data on how much energy we use in the home, projected traffic congestion, and census reports. But how do we make sense of all this information? How do we make connections between the way we travel and our health or the growth of cities and economic output? The Intelligent Cities attempts to make these connections visible and more importantly USEFUL. Starting with the November 1 issue of TIME magazine (on newsstands today), NBM will have a full page ad mashing up data about the home and asking the public to respond to a series of questions that will be geo-coded by zip code. These ads will continue each month through April, 2011. As part of this initiative, NBM will host a public forum in June 2011, a publication next fall and ultimately all of the work will culminate in an exhibition opening in 2013. NBM released their first polling question, asking how one chooses where to live. And then compare your responses to fellow citizens. Next month will feature the next infographic and polling question about how kids travel to school. Visit the Intelligent Cities web page, for essays, videos, and related links. TIME magazine has created their own Intelligent Cities channel on their website featuring links to our site and an initial article by Bruce Katz, Director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings.
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NSF Workshop – Collaborative Practice: When Engineering Design Meets Architecture
Penn Design, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pa
November 4 - 5, 2010
The Architecture Program at Penn DESIGN in collaboration with The Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and the Department of Architectural Engineering at Penn State University will host the NSF Workshop – Collaborative Practice: When Engineering Design Meets Architecture.
The event, co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), will be held in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania on November 4th and 5th, 2010. The workshop is dedicated to the cultivation of a common research language amongst architects and engineer with the goal of overcoming many of the historic barriers that have hindered effective collaboration between the disciplines. Throughout the two day event, successful interdisciplinary teams of researchers will communicate their strategies for obtaining NSF support for research in design. A select number of professional and industry partners will discuss building related advances that have resulted from research in both fields, while NSF personnel will clarify the organization’s goals, procedures and evaluation criteria. We are interested in devising new and effective strategies for increasing the range of collaborative opportunities available to architects and engineers.
To this end, the organizers seek participation from academic colleagues primarily from universities with strong programs in both engineering and architecture. Interdisciplinary research teams working across institutional boundaries who have or who are planning to participate in funded research are encouraged to apply for a sponsored workshop registration. Interested parties are asked to submit a one page project description of their collaborative research whether past, present or in the planning stages, clearly identifying all team members. Participants who are selected are not expected to make a presentation, but should they wish to can by communicating their interest within the project description. Teams of researchers who submit by September 1 will be assured consideration. Sponsored participants will be contacted by September 20, 2010. Please address all responses and enquiries to Franca Trubiano at trubiano@design.upenn.edu.
William Braham, Penn Design
Tim Simpson, Penn State
Franca Trubiano, Penn Design
Dan Willis, Penn State
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GSA/NEA Call for Proposals
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GSA/NEA Call for Proposals
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UIA: Architectural education research
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ACSA Feedback Request
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