Introduction to SEED Network
In collaboration with Women in Architecture Committee – Silicon Valley
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.
About the presenter
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.
Cost
$10 Non-Members
FREE for Students & AIA San Mateo County Members (Use Promo Code: FriendofAIA)