Celebrate professional and scholarly excellence in environmental design at the 2013 EDRA Awards Banquet, when we present the 15th Annual Great Places Awards for Place Design, Place Research, Place Planning and Book on June 1, 2013, at the Omni Providence Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island.
Hear first hand from the best and brightest minds in architecture, landscape architecture, planning and interior design as we honor Great Places that exemplify the concern for human factors in the design of the built environments, and a commitment to promoting the links between design research and practice. The coveted Great Places Award is the pinnacle of achievement in built environments.
Tickets for the awards banquet are $90. Please note: One ticket to this event is included for registered attendees of EDRA44Providence, the annual conference of the Environmental Design Research Association.
Now in its 15th year, EDRA's Great Places Awards seek to premiate work that combines expertise in design, research, and practice and that contributes to the creation of dynamic, humane places that engage our attention and imagination. Award-winning projects reflect an interdisciplinary approach that is enduring, sustainable, and concerned with human factors in the design of the built environment.
We invite participation from a range of design and research disciplines — particularly projects whose significance extends beyond any one profession or field. All submissions should show how research and/or public participation is linked to or part of environmental design practice, and vice versa. Submissions should also demonstrate how an understanding of the experience of place may be used to generate insightful design.
We welcome submissions from the full breadth of environmental design and related research activities, including architecture, landscape architecture, planning, urban design, interior design, lighting design, graphic design, environmental psychology, sociology, anthropology, geography, and the physical sciences.
New this year: Entrants had the opportunity to submit projects for consideration in the Healthy + Healing Places Exhibition, May 29 - June 1, 2013, in conjunction with EDRA’s 2013 conference, EDRA44Providence.
We have assembled a jury with diverse backgrounds in design, research and practice. The jury evaluates how each project, no matter what the discipline, addresses the human experience of well-designed places. Special attention is paid to the transferability of research on this topic into design and planning practice. The jury will select winners from four categories: place design, place planning, place research, and a book prize. This year we will convene a separate jury to consider projects for the Healthy + Healing Places Exhibition.
The submission deadline for the 2013 program has past. Please check back here in October for the 2014 Call for Entries.
2013 Submission Process
- Download the Call for Entries document found here.
- Click here to process the payment for your submission(s).
- Upload your submission (entry form, written statement and supporting documents) using the secure file transfer service below, or mail a CD/DVD with all the materials to: EDRA Great Places Awards, 1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500, McLean, VA 22102.
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2013 Great Places Awards Jury