Environmental Design Research Association
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The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) is an international, interdisciplinary organization founded in 1968 by design professionals, social scientists, students, educators, and facility managers. The purpose of edra is the advancement and dissemination of environmental design
Environmental design
Environmental design is the process of addressing surrounding environmental parameters when devising plans, programs, policies, buildings, or products...

 research, thereby improving understanding of the interrelationships between people, their built and natural surroundings, and helping to create environments responsive to human needs. Along with IAPS, MERA, PaPER, and EBRA, EDRA is one of the major international associations that focuses on the field of Environmental Design Research.

EDRA Conferences

EDRA holds an annual conference in different locations around the United States and around the world. The first annual conference was held at Chapel Hill, North Carolina on June 8–10, 1969. Most conferences are held in the United States where the EDRA membership is concentrated, but over the last 40 years, four have been held in Canada (EDRA18/1976 in Vancouver, EDRA 18/1987 in Ottawa, EDRA 28/1993 in Montreal, and EDRA 36/2005 in Vancouver), two have been held in Mexico (EDRA 22/1991 in Oaxtapec and EDRA 39/2008 in Veracruz), and one was held in Scotland (EDRA 32/2001 in Edinburgh). EDRA will be celebrating its 40th anniversary in Kansas City, Missouri May 27–31, 2009.

Proceedings are published as part of each conference. These include full-length refereed and invited papers, symposia, workshops, and posters.

Honors and awards

  • Great Places Award (sponsored by the Journal Places, Metropolis and EDRA): An increasingly prestigious award given since 1998 for outstanding design projects in the categories of planning, design, research, and books. Past winners have included Bryant Park
    Bryant Park
    Bryant Park is a 9.603 acre privately managed public park located in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and between 40th and 42nd Streets in Midtown Manhattan...

     in New York City, the Heidelberg Project
    Heidelberg Project
    The Heidelberg Project is an outdoor art project in Detroit, Michigan. It was created in 1986 by artist Tyree Guyton and his grandfather Sam Mackey as an outdoor art environment in the McDougall-Hunt neighborhood on the city's east side, just north of the city's historically African-American Black...

     in Detroit, and Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
    Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
    Landschaftspark is a public park located in Duisburg Nord, Germany.It was designed in 1991 by Latz + Partner , with the intention that it work to heal and understand the industrial past, rather than trying to reject it...

     in Germany.
  • EDRA Career Award: An annual award honoring a career and significant contributions in environmental design research, teaching or practice. Past award winners include Robert Gifford
    Robert Gifford
    Robert Gifford is professor of Psychology and Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria . His main research interests are environmental psychology, social psychology, and personality psychology. He has worked on nonverbal behavior and on climate change behavior barriers...

    , Leanne Rivlin
    Leanne Rivlin
    Leanne Rivlin is an originator of the Environmental Psychology Doctoral Program at the CUNY Graduate Center in the late 1960s.-Education:*Ph.D., M.A. Teachers College, Columbia University *B.A. Brooklyn College, Psychology & English...

    , and Amos Rapoport
    Amos Rapoport
    Amos Rapoport is the author of the book House, Form & Culture - which talks about how culture, human behavior, and the environment affect house form....

    .
  • EDRA Achievement Award: An annual award recognizing an outstanding contribution to the field of environment-behavior design and research. Past winners include William H. Whyte
    William H. Whyte
    William Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte was an American urbanist, organizational analyst, journalist and people-watcher.Whyte was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1917 and died in New York City in 1999. An early graduate of St. Andrew's School in Middletown, Delaware, he graduated from Princeton...

     for the Street Life Project and Roger Hart
    Roger Hart
    Roger A. Hart is a Professor in the Environmental Psychology Ph.D. Program of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the co-director of the Children’s Environments Research Group.-Biography:...

    , Children's Environmental Research Group.
  • EDRA Service Award: An annual award recognizing service to EDRA above and beyond the call of duty.
  • EDRA Student Paper Award: Awarded for an outstanding full-length paper by a student.
  • EDRA Student Design Award
  • Nature & Ecology Network Sponsored Student Paper Award

Networks

There are 19 interest area networks:
  • Children, Youth and Environments
  • Cities & Globalization
  • Interior Design
  • Cyberspace & Digital Environments
  • Communication & Environment
  • Cultural Aspects of Design
  • International Housing Research
  • Active Living
  • Work Environments
  • POE/Programming
  • Participation
  • Historic Preservation
  • Residential Environments
  • Nature & Ecology
  • Building Process Alliance
  • Environment & Gerontology
  • Health
  • Movement in Designed Environments
  • International Connections


Each active network has web page at the parent site: www.edra.org. All networks hold a network lunch meeting during the annual conference and several organize and sponsor Pre-conference Intensives or sessions during the conference.

See also

  • American Institute of Architects
    American Institute of Architects
    The American Institute of Architects is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the AIA offers education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach to support the architecture profession and improve its public image...

     AIA
  • American Planning Association
    American Planning Association
    The American Planning Association is a professional organization representing the field of city and regional planning in the United States. The APA was formed in 1978 when two separate professional planning organizations, the American Institute of Planners and the American Society of Planning...

     APA
  • American Psychological Association
    American Psychological Association
    The American Psychological Association is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States. It is the world's largest association of psychologists with around 154,000 members including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. The APA...

     APA
  • American Society of Interior Designers
    American Society of Interior Designers
    The American Society of Interior Designers is the oldest and largest professional association for interior designers. Through education, knowledge sharing, advocacy, community building and outreach, the Society strives to advance the interior design profession and, in the process, to demonstrate...

     ASID
  • International Association of People-Environment Studies
    International Association of People-Environment Studies
    The International Association of People-Environment Studies , has been promoting the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between planning and social scientists for 35 years – above all between spatial planning, architecture, psychology, and sociology...

     IAPS
  • Children Youth and Environments Journal
    Children Youth and Environments Journal
    Children, Youth and Environments is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research articles, in-depth analyses, cutting-edge field reports, and critical book reviews on research, policy, and practice concerning inclusive and sustainable environments for children and youth worldwide.From...

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