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The WIA (Women in Architecture) is a subcommittee of the AIA Silicon Valley. Founded in 2015, the committee’s focus is on expanding equity, equality, and diversity in the profession of architecture. The WIA offers programs which empower and support women as they establish their professional identities, develop their career paths, and find their leadership direction. Gender serves as a gateway topic to addressing experiences of diversity - allowing a flexible and expansive focus on topics. These are addressed through our events as the committee members and event guests navigate their intersectional identities and the challenges of living and working in a complex socio-historic context, a dynamic economic and technological region, and a turbulent political climate.

Interested in learning more about our upcoming plans and stay up to date with WIA activities? Join us virtually
every third Wednesday of the month at noon.

Zoom Meeting Link : https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81103086362?pwd=MUN2L29tYkRnS09NeVRvM1pGS0Zidz09
Meeting ID: 811 0308 6362
Passcode: 431783

Check out events listed below to learn more about advocacy! Both members and non-members are welcome.

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Intersections : Introduction to SEED Network

  • ZOOM Meeting Please register on the AIA Website for Login Information (map)

The Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Network was founded in 2005 as a professional community specifically with a public interest mission and a common set of principles and mission. SEED provides Public Interest Design with a professional standard of ethical practice through a clear and step-by-step process to guide ethical community engagement based on case studies of best practices. In a 2011 poll of members of the American Institute of Architects funded by the FAIA Latrobe Prize, 77% agreed that the SEED mission is appropriate for Public Interest Design: Every person should be able to live in a socially, economically and environmentally healthy community.

Learning Objectives

  • Gain a better understanding of public interest design and how it is re-shaping the design professions.

  • See examples of how to maximize a project’s positive impact on a community.

  • Learn about tools to move beyond LEED to measure the social, economic, and environmental impact on communities.

  • Discuss lessons on leveraging other partners and assets to address project challenges.

Cost
$10 for non-members |  Free for AIA Silicon Valley members (be sure to sign in first)
If you are in the position to make a $10 donation, your support will be appreciated.

Bryan Bell is an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture, NC State University. In 1991 he founded the nonprofit organization Design Corps with the mission “to provide the benefits of design for the 98 percent without architects.” His current work includes research on the field of public interest design and the SEED Network which Bell cofounded. He has co-published five books in this field, has organized thirty-three Public Interest Design Institute and eighteen Structures for Inclusion international conferences. His work has been supported by the Latrobe Prize of the Fellows of the AIA and he has received thirty grants including nin from the National Endowment for the Arts. He was awarded a National AIA Award and was a National Design Award finalist. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale and at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. Bell holds degrees from Princeton and Yale Universities and was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Source:: https://aiasiliconvalley.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1552253&group=
Earlier Event: April 28
Intersections : A Pathway for Equity In Design
Later Event: October 27
Intersections : Enabling the Circular Economy through Sustainable Architecture