AIA STL JEDI

04/23/2024

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04/11/2024

JOIN US TODAY! Learn from Speaker Quinlan Messenger of JUST Design, Inc.

As a design justice and equity steward, Quinlin Messenger’s leadership and creative identity are rooted in his African American, Native American, and Jewish heritage. He channels and honors these legacies through design justice, an awareness and healing modality that is at the core of his practice, engaging communities and projects with a sensitivity and focus towards healthy living, social and environmental empowerment, and legacy cultivation. With over 15 years of experience working with underserved communities, Messenger believes design is a tool for social and environmental transformation and that systems can and should be just for all. Understanding the historical, current, and future contexts of projects is integral to Messenger’s process and approach, integrating co-creative and eco-centered practices to address the deepest challenges our communities and ecosystems face.

Credit: 1.00 AIA continuing education credit available.
Cost: Free and open to the public!
REGISTER HERE: https://www.aia-stlouis.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1825072

Sponsored by the AIA St. Louis Scholarship Fund

04/11/2024

03/20/2024

Calling all professionals and students! Ready to unleash your creativity while discussing important Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) topics? Join us for a unique social and sketching event where you can express your ideas through iteration and dialogue!

Wednesday, March 27th from 5-7pm at the MillerKnoll Lifestyle Studio @ 3303 Locust Street.
Register here: https://www.aia-stlouis.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1833500

Here's what to expect: Choose an EDI topic from our provided prompts. Sketch your ideas and solutions related to the chosen topic. Engage in lively discussions as we share our sketches and thoughts with each other. Remember to bring your own notebook or sketchpad to capture your creativity! This is an opportunity to network, learn, and contribute to meaningful conversations in a relaxed setting.

02/28/2024

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10/30/2023

This panel discussion will create an opportunity for designers to engage the emerging idea of all gender restroom design, acknowledging the importance of inclusive restrooms and the involved considerations of the specific design process. Our purpose is to provide an educational and social experience including dedicated networking time before the main presentation. This hybrid event will be a participatory one featuring a panel of specifically experienced speakers from diverse positions of the particular design process. The event will begin with presentations of relevant precedent projects followed by prompted and open discussion components. Food and beverages will be provided!

Date/Time: Thursday, November 2; 5-7 PM
Location: The Resource Center @ AIA St. Louis, and virtually on Zoom
AIA credits: 1.5 HSW
Speakers:
Anna Vogel (moderator)
Amanda Truemper (panelist)
Greg Turner (panelist)
Abby Buchmann (panelist)
Sponsors: Bobrick, Engraphix
Event is free to attend.

Link for registration and to learn more abut the panelists: https://www.aia-stlouis.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1720084&group=

10/19/2023

This panel discussion will create an opportunity for designers to engage the emerging idea of all gender restroom design, acknowledging the importance of inclusive restrooms and the involved considerations of the specific design process. Our purpose is to provide an educational and social experience including dedicated networking time before the main presentation. This hybrid event will be a participatory one featuring a panel of specifically experienced speakers from diverse positions of the particular design process. The event will begin with presentations of relevant precedent projects followed by prompted and open discussion components. Food and beverages will be provided!

Date/Time: Thursday, November 2; 5-7 PM
Location: The Resource Center @ AIA St. Louis, and virtually on Zoom
AIA credits: 1.5 HSW
Speakers:
Anna Vogel (moderator)
Amanda Truemper (panelist)
Greg Turner (panelist)
Sponsors: Bobrick, Engraphix
Event is free to attend.

Register here: https://www.aia-stlouis.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1720084&group=

10/18/2023

“The One-Story Campus”

Together in Diversity and Design will continue with a workshop with David Gissen, author of The Architecture of Disability: Buildings, Cities, and Landscapes Beyond Access and Professor of Architecture and Urban History at Parsons School of Design. The workshop will be held Tuesday, Oct, 24, 2-5 p.m. in Vol Walker Hall.

This workshop offers participants a speculative design exercise, informed by critical architectural concepts of disability and human impairment. Rather than explore ways to make existing buildings and building types more “accessible,” participants will reimagine the physical forms of buildings in more comprehensive ways. They will reimagine a series of multistory historic and modernist buildings on the Fayetteville campus in a one-story form.

One-story buildings have obvious benefits from the perspective of differently abled users, but they are also less physically intensive to build and maintain. Architecture students are often encouraged to design more vertically intensive structures that incorporate innovative ideas about structural engineering, the complexities of sectional spaces, and formal aesthetics of uplift and ascension. By contrast, workshop participants will consider an alternative range of structural, spatial and formal innovations that bring the physical intensity of architecture down a notch or two.

Open to all Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design students. If you are interested in participating, please send an email to Gabriel Diaz Montemayor at [email protected] to add your name to the list of participants and to calculate model making materials.

Together in Diversity and Design:
This is a program at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design focused on learning and discussion of issues and opportunities in diversity, equity, and inclusion as these relate to the disciplines of the design of the built environment.

09/25/2023

Sue Harken-Houser, NCIDQ, LEED AP, CDT is an Applied Research Consultant at Steelcase with expertise in design thinking and a user centered approach to workplace strategy. With over 20 years in the industry, Sue specializes in an integrated approach using quantitative and qualitative data synthesis to create environments that support innovation, agile, and digital transformation. She uses her expertise to lead executive facilitation of corporate vision, user observation and interactive workshops with major corporations. Her client industry experience includes professional services, pharmaceutical, consumer product, non-profit, biotech, consulting, financial, healthcare, and educational institutions.

Currently based in Denver, Sue is a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner, a certified Interior Designer (NCIDQ), a LEED Accredited Professional and holds a CDT (CSI) accreditation. She holds a degree in Interior Design from Iowa State University and has served as an adjunct faculty member and advisory board member for the interior design program at Maryville University in Saint Louis.

LINK TO REGISTER AND LEARN MORE ABOUT THE EVENT: https://www.aia-stlouis.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1720084&group=

SEPTEMBER 28 5:30 PM RECEPTION, 6-8PM
VIRTUAL ON ZOOM + IN-PERSON
ASL INTERPRETER FOR IN-PERSON & AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION FOR VIRTUAL
LOCATION: T-REX CENTER 911 WASHINGTON AVE, 5TH FLOOR, ST. LOUIS, MO 63101
FREE FOR AIA/IIDA/NOMA STL MEMBERS, $10 FOR NON-MEMBERS
AIA CREDITS: 2 LU/HSW
IDCEC CREDITS: TBD

The American Institute of Architects St. Louis Chapter, National Organization of Minority Architects, IIDA Gateway Chapter, Steelcase, Negwer Materials, Inc., Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, Color Art

09/22/2023

Jennifer Carpenter is a founding principal of Verona Carpenter Architects in New York. Together with partner Irina Verona she leads a firm that designs for humanity and resilience, focusing on inclusion. She lectures widely on the topic of design and neurodiversity, most recently at the 2023 World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen where she presented a peer-reviewed paper on neurodiversity and social sustainability.

Jennifer serves as a New York City Mentor for Minority and Women Owned Business, selected for this role by the NYC Department of Small Business. She is a LEED Accredited Professional, is active in the Social Sciences and Architecture Committee of the NYC AIA, and served for six years on the Board of Directors for the Quad Preparatory School, a school for neurodivergent learners. Jennifer lives in Manhattan with her family, including her autistic adult son.

LINK TO REGISTER AND LEARN MORE ABOUT THE EVENT: https://www.aia-stlouis.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1720084&group=

SEPTEMBER 28 5:30 PM RECEPTION, 6-8PM
VIRTUAL ON ZOOM + IN-PERSON
ASL INTERPRETER FOR IN-PERSON & AUDIO TRANSCRIPTION FOR VIRTUAL
LOCATION: T-REX CENTER 911 WASHINGTON AVE, 5TH FLOOR, ST. LOUIS, MO 63101
FREE FOR AIA/IIDA/NOMA STL MEMBERS, $10 FOR NON-MEMBERS
AIA CREDITS: 2 LU/HSW
IDCEC CREDITS: TBD

The American Institute of Architects St. Louis Chapter, National Organization of Minority Architects, IIDA Gateway Chapter, Steelcase, Washington University in St. Louis, Negwer Materials, Inc., Color Art