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Great Places Awards - Submission Deadline

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Feb 3
2014
Great Places Awards - Submission Deadline Environmental Design Research Association Feb 3, 2014 : 12:00 am to 11:45 pm

The Great Places Awards are unique among programs that honor professional and scholarly excellence in environmental design.

Now in its 16th year, EDRA's Great Places Awards 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.

 

Click here to download the 2014 Call for Entries!

 

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.

 

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, place-based public art, environmental psychology, sociology, anthropology, geography, and the physical sciences.

 

Each year we assemble 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 exceptional submissions from four categories: place design, place planning, place research, and a book prize.

 

All submissions for the 2014 EDRA Great Places Awards must be electronically UPLOADED using the file transfer protocol below by 11:59pm ET on Monday, February 3, 2014. Entries and their supporting documents can instead be submitted on a CD/DVD and mailed to EDRA Headquarters, Attn: Great Places Awards, 1760 Old Meadow Road, Suite 500, McLean, VA 22102, as long as they are RECEIVED by the deadline. No paper or late submissions will be accepted.

 

2014 Submission Process

  • Download the Call for Entries.
  • 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.
Contact: 
Environmental Design Research Association
Address 
#500, 1760 Old Meadow Road
McLean, VA 22102
United States
Click to view background photo & credits
Project: Telus Atrium Garden
Landscape Architect / Firm: Sharp & Diamond Landscape Architecture Inc in collaboration with Cornelia Hahn Oberlander
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
Photo Credit: Brett Hitchins