EDR Education

The purpose of the Environmental Design Research (EDR) Education Network is to promote the teaching of Environmental Design Research in architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, urban design, regional planning, and historic preservation in order to increase the influence of the social sciences in helping to create environments that meet inhabitant needs.

The EDR Education Knowledge Network will:

• Generate a community for faculty teaching Environmental Design Research as well for graduate students and professionals interested in university teaching in environmental design research to help develop or create required and elective courses in this area.
• Create a forum for sharing syllabi, teaching methods and techniques, and reviewing emerging material for adoption in environmental design research courses.
• Support the development of a fieldwork component for environmental design research courses so that in the process of fulfilling class requirements students can contribute data gathering advancing research objectives beyond the confines of the classroom.
• Foster an interdisciplinary environment where the broad variety of approaches to the field of environmental design research will be welcomed in order to inform university level teaching both at the level of awareness or expertise.
• Encourage the adoption of environmental design research classes in curricula in the fields of architecture, landscape, interior, urban design, regional planning, and historic preservation.