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Architecture for Education

The AIANY Architecture for Education Committee is the local affiliate of AIA National’s CAE. The committee provides and organizes events where architects, educators, educational administrators, and the public can meet and exchange ideas to promote better educational facilities of all kinds. We provide opportunities where the design community can meet the people who administrate the various agencies that control design and construction budgets and discuss mutual concerns and interests. Our goals include maintaining ties to other committees and affiliated organizations for events of mutual interest at both the local and national level. Our meetings are free and open to all.

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  • January 11, 2023
    Community Schools Workshop
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    We ended the year on a high note with a tremendously informative Community Schools Workshop on October 14, 2022! Thanks to Bruce Levine, Clinical Professor, Drexel University School of Education and Sean O’Donnell, K-12 Practice Leader at Perkins Eastman, and their colleagues, for sharing their ongoing research on Community Schools with us through this facilitated panel discussion. Community school partnerships with a variety of organizations (health, food access and nutrition, and social emotional learning/support) in both rural and urban contexts were discussed and we came away with many valuable insights on school design in general. 

  • Building for the Youngest New Yorkers: NYC SCA’s Pre-K/3-K Programs
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    We had our first in-person AIANY Architecture for Education Committee event in over two years at the AIA New York Center for Architecture on July 7, 2022 with Building for the Youngest New Yorkers: NYC SCA’s Pre-K/3-K Programs. What a treat to see everyone at this very lively panel discussion! Thank you again to all our speakers for sharing their experience in creating these much-needed educational facilities, and to our attendees for making the event a huge success. 
  • July 14, 2021
    Roundtable Discussion on the Brooklyn STEAM Center
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    Our July committee meeting was joined by Jared Giles, Director of Workforce Development Initiatives BNYDC and Kayon Pryce Founding Principal Brooklyn STEAM Center to discuss the Brooklyn STEAM Center located within the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

  • June 2, 2021
    Roundtable Discussion with Dr. Christopher Emdin
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    Dr. Christopher Emdin shared his forthcoming project with the Lincoln Center Collider Project, an interdisciplinary R&D lab in the performing arts. The pilot class includes ten phenomenal fellows who are “colliding” and collaborating on work which spans opera, DEI, artificial intelligence, and beyond. Dr. Christopher Emdin is in the process of designing a virtual and in-person intervention for classroom spaces in K-12 settings.

    More information on Dr. Emdin’s work here.

  • May 5, 2021
    Roundtable Discussion with Parke Rhoads of Vantage

    Parke Rhoads, Principal of Vantage Technology Consulting Group led our committee meeting discussion on the topic of  “Technology, Futurism, and the Learning Experience in 2030”

    The two articles (links below) synthesize both the broad over-arching (e.g. institution-wide) and “in-the-trenches” classroom (e.g. instructor and learner specific) perspectives for how our experience with technology during the pandemic may transform the design of the learning environment in the future. The two articles we shared in advance of our meeting and guided the discussion around the following themes:

    • The Disruption-Adaptation Model (React, Survive, Innovate): Case studies into stories from the frontlines of academic technology
    • Futurism: The themes and forces will factor into the next horizons, and how these factors may forecast the learning experience of 2030
    • Experience Design: What new tools and stakeholders are coming to the rescue, and how the professional designer could leverage these to lead the innovation

    How Can the Historic Sense of an Agora Be Captured in Virtual Learning Spaces?
    Learning Spaces Collaborative, November 2020
    https://www.pkallsc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/LSC-Zoom-Roundtables_Agora-Essay.pdf

    Hot Trends and Topics in Higher Ed Technology
    High Profile Magazine, September 2020
    https://www.high-profile.com/hot-trends-and-topics-in-higher-ed-technology/

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