Promoting Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Design Education
By Richard Davies on Apr 16, 2021The organizations of JADE-PHL.
I have had the privilege of being the Chair of the Center for Architecture and Design since 2017. During my first year, it was a priority for the organization to complete a strategic plan, and to make reigniting its languishing Architecture in Education program (now the “Architecture + Design Education Program”) a significant element of that plan. It was clear to me that we needed a strategic plan that clarified our values and streamlined our existing programs so that our small, yet mighty, staff could find the time,…Read Full Story
The Center for Architecture and Design Looks to Expand Design Education Curriculum to Reach More Students in PhiladelphiaThe Center for Architecture and Design (Center) is pleased to welcome Michael Spain, Associate AIA, NOMA, as the new Director of Design Education. In this role, Michael will be responsible for expanding and implementing the K-12 student design education programming throughout Philadelphia. The Center has a 40-year history of offering design education in various forms. Still, in the last three years, the…
Over the past three years, the Center for Architecture and Design has shifted its programming priorities in order to expand our K-12 educational program offerings. As part of our Strategic Plan, we asserted: We believe every student deserves access to design education. And we've been working hard to live up to our beliefs. We expanded our in-class Architecture in Education program, we offered more Saturday Family workshops on all types of design, and we strengthened our partnerships with other student-focused…
2020 has been quite a year thus far. It has shown the worst of us and the best of us. Thank you to all of you who have supported and continue to support your neighbors during this trying, yet illuminating, time in our history. We have a lot to learn and we have a lot of work to do. We are holding ourselves accountable to our organization’s recent statement and we are committed to doing better at dismantling and calling out systemic racism when we see it. If you have ideas – please reach out, we’d love to hear…
On behalf of the Board of Directors of both AIA Philadelphia and the Center for Architecture and Design, we jointly issue the following statement:WE ARE OUTRAGED! We are outraged by the blatant murder of George Floyd and so many others before him. We are outraged that countless filmed murders of black people by the police over the past several years was not enough to move our country to action and commitment to lasting change and healing. Mostly, we are outraged for the black people in our communities- our neighbors, our…
Thank you to all who joined our call last week to hear about our “Plan B” for DesignPhiladelphia 2020. In case you missed the call, here are the highlights: What We Are Planning:The Festival is still happening, October 7-18, 2020. The programming will be all virtual. If we can gather, then we will re-evaluate, but for now. It’s all virtual. Programming Deadline to Submit is June 29, 2020.Collaboration with other organizations and design festivals around the world.Focused Virtual Best in Emerging Design…
Help us continue our programming this fall and keep our doors open and accessible to everyone.Dear Friends,Over the past month, all of us have been adapting to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our lives, our work, and our homes. We have talked with hundreds of you and will continue to hear your stories and share ours because although it's perhaps cliché at this point...it is true. We will only get through this together. We certainly miss seeing all of your faces at the Center for Architecture and Design - over the…
It’s been a few months since we wrapped the 2019 DesignPhiladelphia Festival, and we are already well underway planning for this upcoming October festival. As all of our event partners and designers start brainstorming what their programming will be for this year, I felt it was important to share some important statistics about last year’s festival. In particular, how having Cherry Street Pier as our second festival hub, has created new opportunities for our festival and our local designers.Festival attendance was a record…
This year’s Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Awards honored the Bronx-based urban revitalization strategist (and MacArthur Fellow) Majora Carter and the Student Design Award winners from Leeds Beckett University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Massachusetts. Two hundred people attended the Awards Ceremony at the Center for Architecture and Design on February 11th, including the award winners and Philadelphia’s community of developers, urban planners, architects, and urbanophiles. The student winners…
This year’s On The Rise exhibition (January 23 – March 5, 2020) honors the 2019 Philadelphia Emerging Architect (PEA) winning firm Studio 6mm, founded by Brian Szymanik and David Quadrini, as well as the 2019 Young Architect Award winners Fátima Olivieri of KieranTimberlake and Drew Lavine of Re:Vision Architecture. The PEA Prize is awarded to a promising firm less than ten years old producing high-quality design and thinking within the Philadelphia region. The Young Architect prize honors architects under 40 who…
Have a passion for architecture, urban planning, and design? Join our crew of volunteers to inspire the next generation of thoughtful designers! Over the past two years, the Center has worked to increase design educational programming for K-12 students in Philadelphia. Our activities took place in public school classrooms, as part of summer camps at Philly rec centers, at the Center for Architecture and Design, and in partnership with other child-focused groups from around the city. Since 2018, we’ve engaged approximately…
The Center for Architecture and Design has been approved for an Art Works grant to support an exhibition celebrating the Women’s Suffrage Centennial. This project will celebrate and interpret the Women’s Suffrage from a multidisciplinary design cohort of Philadelphia women designers in collaboration with Philadelphia’s young women and future design talent. Overall, the National Endowment for the Arts has approved 1,187 grants totaling $27.3 million in the first round of fiscal year 2020 funding to support arts projects…
MIS Capital Returns as Presenting SponsorPhiladelphia, PA, January 24, 2020 – The Center for Architecture and Design (Center) will host a talk by Peabody Award-winning broadcaster, Majora Carter, as the recipient of the 2020 Edmund N. Bacon Urban Design Award. Most known for her work as a real estate developer and urban revitalization strategy consultant, she is responsible for the creation and successful implementation of numerous economic developments, green-infrastructure projects and policies, and job training and…
We are excited to announce that we have launched a pilot for DesignPhilly News to share the stories about our local design community all year long, not just during the Festival. Thanks to our initial underwriting supporter, Thomas Jefferson University, we will bring you fresh news items every week. We are hopeful that using this platform we can continue to highlight the awesomeness and depth of our local design community and that we can connect to one another to expand our collective audiences and advocate for great design…
Millésimé a Design Showroom in Old City, is hosting an event to benefit the local animal shelter – PAWS. Designs, books and pets come together for a very special event. Millésimé and Ligne Roset will host the Philadelphia launch of Mr. Waffles Loves Design, the new book by design writer Lisa S. Roberts. During the event, PAWS, the Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society, will be onsite at the Millésimé design store with adoptable cats and dogs.Lisa will be signing copies of her book and all profits from the sales…
O’Donnell & Naccarato is a creative consulting structural engineering firm operating nationally to support the entire building lifecycle. O&N leverages 38 years of experience in the design of new buildings, renovations, retrofits, expansions, and restorations of all types and levels of complexity. O&N has over 50 Engineers registered across 49 states plus the District of Columbia. Annually, the firm is responsible for the design of 850 projects on average with construction values in excess of $2 billion. O’Donnell &…
In March 1970 after several months of meetings, a “launching party” was held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art to introduce to the public what would become COLLAB. In November 2019, COLLAB invites you to celebrate five decades of supporting design at the Museum.COLLAB 50 | Saturday, November 16th | Dinner Dance 7pm – 11pm | Philadelphia Museum of Art | Info: philamuseum.org/collabA friends group of the Museum, COLLAB supports the collection of Modern and Contemporary Design byhosting international luminaries through the…
Looking to be inspired by more great arts-focused content this fall? Check out the B. PHL Innovation Festival. B. PHL is a new, city-wide innovation festival designed to build the city’s reputation as the most innovative city on the East Coast. On Oct. 15-17, locations around Philadelphia will host more than 200 interactive workshops, sessions, exhibits, and events highlighting innovation in a range of fields. B. PHL will give attendees face-to-face access to the visionaries shaping the future of Philadelphia over three…
Attendees Focused on Reducing Waste and Innovating Existing On-board Delivery Services to Minimize Amtrak’s Environmental footprint. PHILADELPHIA – On Thursday evening, Amtrak welcomed 20 DesignPhiladelphia industrial and product designers and students onboard trains at William H. Gray III 30th Street Station in an effort to source potential sustainable delivery solutions at its “Food Delivery Design with Amtrak- Get Carried Away” design charrette. DesignPhiladelphia is a 10-day festival produced by the Center for…
Iconic tile provider Nemo Tile + Stone has recently opened up shop in Philadelphia’s Old City District, welcoming architects, interior designers, and design enthusiasts alike to specify the brand’s extensive selection of surfacing materials. We chatted with Nemo Tile + Stone’s Design Director, Katie Michael-Battaglia to learn a bit more about what the brand has geared up for the showroom. What made you select the Old City District location?“The Old City District is being transformed into a design destination, with…