Attention ASLA Utah Members!

ALSA Utah has been encouraged to participate in the Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) 2020 Great Places Awards. These awards run annually in collaboration with Project for Public Spaces (PPS). This year will be the 22nd edition of this program.

These awards recognize national and international excellence in place&people-centered design, planning, and research. Award winners are celebrated and announced at the EDRA51 Conference in Tempe, AZ (April 4-7, 2020). Attendance to the awards ceremony is not mandatory, though encouraged. Winning projects are displayed during the conference with large scale posters/banners and through the EDRA website and social media.

There are four award categories: Place Design, Place Planning, Place Research, and Book Award.

I hope you will consider distributing this information. Last years' conference in NY was a great success and 800 attendees from 35 countries visited the conference. This year's EDRA conference will be held at the ASU Campus in Tempe.

We will be announcing 2020 Great Places Awards Jurors soon. All information required for submission is available at: https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.edra.org/resource/resmgr/docs/2020_great_places/2020_brochure_10_27_2019.pdf

Here is a link to past winners in the four award categories: https://www.edra.org/page/GreatPlacesRecipient

See below an excerpt from the https://www.edra.org/page/greatplaces website for the focus of the Awards: https://www.edra.org/page/greatplaces

The Great Places Awards are unique among programs that honor professional and scholarly excellence in environmental design. They seek to recognize work that combines expertise in design, research, and practice, and contributes to the creation of dynamic, humane places that engage our attention and imagination.

Award-winning projects reflect an interdisciplinary approach that is enduring, human-centered, sustainable, and concerned with the experiential relationship between people and their environment (built and natural) over time.

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--an 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.

EDRA welcomes submissions from the full breadth of environmental design and related research fields, including architecture, landscape architecture, planning, urban design, interior design, lighting design, graphic design, place-based public art, environmental psychology, sociology, anthropology, geography, and the physical sciences.