ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (EDRA)

The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) and the design journal Places has an award program that recognizes excellence in environmental design research and practice today.

The EDRA/Places Awards are unique in the ever-expanding universe of award programs. Their primary concern is for good places and how people inhabit them. They invite participation from a range of design and research disciplines, recognizing projects whose significance extends beyond any one profession or field. And they emphasize a link between research and practice, demonstrating how a careful understanding of human interaction with place can inspire design.

Entries are invited from designers, researchers, citizens and public officials. We encourage submissions from a wide range of fields, including architecture, landscape architecture, planning, urban design, public art, interior design, lighting design, graphic design, environmental psychology, sociology, anthropology, geography and related fields.

Awards are given in three categories:

1. Place research awards recognize exemplary projects that investigate the relationship between physical form, design, and human behavior or experience.
2. Place design awards recognize completed projects that demonstrate excellence as human environments.
3. Place planning awards recognize proposals for the future design, use or management of a place.

This could be a good program for Farmers market groups that are looking for funds to assist them in designing and building a marketplace.

Next Round of Funding
Proposals are currently being sought. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2003.

For more information, contact:
Janet Singer, Executive Director
Environmental Design Research Association
1800 Canyon Park Circle, Building 4, Suite 403
Edmond, OK 73013
Phone: (405) 330-4863
Fax: (405)330-4150
Email: ed-@telepath.com
Web: home.telepath.com/~edra/home.html

Todd W. Bressi, Editor at Large
Places, A Forum of Environmental Design
201B Higgins Hall
Pratt Institute School of Architecture
200 Willoughby Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Phone: (718) 399-4313
E-mail: edrap-@aol.com
Web: www.places-journal.org