Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility

ADPSR Supports the Occupy Movement

1. We support the right of citizens to peaceful protests and freedom of expression.
2. We support the principle of non-violent actions for social change.
3. We support the use of public space for political expressions and dialogues.
4. We stand in solidarity with communities and activist organizations around the world seeking democracy and economic, environmental and social justice.
5. We call architects, designers, landscape architects, and planners to support the Occupy Movement through individual and collective actions.

Read ADPSR's full support statement.

ADPSR 2011 International Green Schoolyards Conference

New Village Press/ADPSR and the San Francisco Green Schoolyards Alliance jointly hosted a hugely successful Engaging Our Grounds, International Green Schoolyards Conference September 16-18, 2011, at multiple sites in the SF Bay Area. The conference featured presentations by leaders of a growing worldwide movement to transform schoolgrounds into living ecological oases for learning and play. Conference director was Sharon Danks, environmental designer and author of Asphalt to Ecosystems: Design Ideas for Schoolyard Transformation.

Nominations now being accepted for the 2012 Mumford Awards

We are now accepting nominations for our 2012 Awards, to be given on March 24th in Austin, Texas, as part of the Structures for Inclusion Conference (https://designcorps.org/sfi-conference/). 

For more information visit
http://adpsr.org/home/mumford_awards

ADPSR gives three annual Lewis Mumford Awards for Peace, Environment, and Sustainble Development. The 18th annual awards ceremony was held June 2010 in conjunction with the Toward a Just Metropolis Conference in Berkeley.

Bill Burke accepted the award on behalf of Bill Mazria for Architecture 2030, Marsha Guerrero accepted for Chez Panisse Foundation and Edible Schoolyards, and Ari Wohlfeiler accepted for Critical Resistance. The awards were designed by artist Christina Bertea.

More info about the 2010 Mumford awardees.

NorCal ADPSR Event:  

European Passive House, Part II:  Drilling into the Details on Passive House Low Energy Building Standards 

February 21, 2011 6:00pm-8:30pm
AIA San Francisco

On the path to Zero Net Energy, the robust building envelope standards, offered by European Passive House, are increasingly coming to the fore. Central to this discussion is cost-effective, high R-Value, non-thermal bridging technologies that would be attractive to the wider production home market.

Find out more as passive house leaders share their ideas on how we can achieve this energy standard.

Read more:  http://adpsr.org/home/norcal

Toward a Just Metropolis

ADPSR in partnership with Planners Network, The Association for Community Design, and the Center for the Living City produced Toward a Just Metropolis, a 2010 conference dedicated to a just future for all human settlements.

More than 450 planners, architects, designers, urban activists, educators, journalists, policymakers, academics, students, and concerned citizens from diverse backgrounds across North America attended. All shared a passion for social, economic, and environmental justice, and were committed to exchanging their experiences and visions for robust civic engagement, innovative planning, and inclusive community building.
The four-day event was held at various sites throught the SF Bay Area and hosted by the Department of City and Regional Planning and the College of Environmental Design (CED) at the University of California, Berkeley.