Healthy Communities | Special Session
2021 AIA/ACSA Intersections Research Conference: COMMUNITIES
This session highlights partnerships between practice and academia in consortia transforming how we think about healthy buildings and communities. Community-based projects and engagement are highlighted through those partnerships between practice and academia in context of community improvement through better health outcomes. Leaders and health experts from multiple firms present projects and illustrate how research has influenced outcomes.
Learning objectives
- Understand how partnerships between practice and academia can lead to improved healthy buildings and communities.
- Examine successful projects by healthy design experts, highlighting improved building performance.
- Learn how to work with community partners to incorporate specific results for their built projects.
- Discuss the best practices in healthy and successful community-based projects.
This course is part of a series
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Instructors
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Heather Burpee
Research Associate Professor | University of Washington Integrated Design Lab (IDL)
Heather Burpee, Research Associate Professor at the University of Washington Integrated Design Lab... -
Kristen Dotson
Sustainability Services Director | Miller Hull Partnership
Kristen Dotson is Miller Hull Partnership’s Sustainability Services Director. Kristen takes her... -
Myer Harrell
AIA, LEED AP BD+CPrincipal and Director of Sustainability | Weber Thompson
Myer Harrell is a Principal and the Director of Sustainability at Weber Thompson. He believes in... -
Chris Meek
Associate Professor of Architecture / Director of the Center for Integrated Design, College of Built Environments | University of Washington
Christopher Meek is Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington and... -
Vikram Sami
AIA, BEMP, LEED APDirector of Building Performance | Olson Kundig
Vikram Sami is Olson Kundig’s Director of Building Performance, has been working on high... -
Anne Schopf
FAIADesign Partner | Mahlum Architects
Working across all studios in the firm in her role as Design Partner, Anne continually challenges... -
Pia Westen
AIA, LEED AP BD+CAssociate | SHKS
Pia Westen is an Associate at SHKS. She graduated from the University of Kansas with a Master of...