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This is IAPS' homepage What's new?
   

NEW!!! Help us build a database of 'study and training opportunities in the field of People-Environment Studies'

   
The 2nd Annual IAPS Photographic Exhibit
In response to the reception given to our first IAPS photographic exhibit (Alexandria 2006), Gary Gumpert, David Uzzell and Ombretta Romice are organizing the second such event. The photographic exhibition will take place during the IAPS 20th conference.

Theme
: "Communication and the City". You can interpret Communication and the City broadly and imaginatively...
read more

Entry
: 4 pictures per participant, submission: 8th May 2008
..read more

 
Transfer of IAPS to a French Association

IAPS became registered as an unincorporated association with the Charity Commission for England and Wales in 2003. The Board of Trustees of IAPS has now de-registered the association as a UK-based charity and transfered all assets to the French equivalent after a ballot vote of the IAPS members


 
IAPS launches a new Network!
   
IAPS works to facilitate communication on the relationships between people and their physical environment

You can find a detailed list of future (and past) conferences at the Congresses, Events page

 

 



 

You will find detailed information and addresses for the following conferences:

Open Public Urban Spaces (OPUS2008), a major international architecture, landscape architecture and urban design conference. Stavangen, Norway/ 26-29 June 2008.

2008 IAPS Conference: "URBAN DIVERSITIES, BIOSPHERE AND WELL-BEING" ROME, ITALY, 28/07/08-01/08/08. Visit the website: http://www.iaps2008.com

First call for "Doctoral Studies on Housing" Joint Symposium organized by HERA-C and HREC. 20-22 May 2008. Deadline abstracts: 20 Febr 08.

The World Universities Forum, 2008 Davos, Switzerland, 31 Jan-2 febr 2008.

International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence (ICADI). February 21-23, 2008
Hilton - St. Petersburg, FL

ICADI 2008 Universal Design Preconference Intensive:
The 21st Century Community

Wednesday, February 20, 2008
8:00am - 5:00pm Cost $100

International Conference on Aging, Disability and Independence which will be held February 20-23, 2008 in St. Petersburg, Florida.


 

IAPS 19
Download now: Reflections on the Congress (pdf, 225 KB). By Aleya Abdel-Hadi


 
IAPS works to integrate research, education, policy and practice
Latest job opportunities, as posted by IAPS members, are described in detail in the News page. Find here news on new resources made available by IAPS members.


 



We just started compiling a collection of links to job-engines around the world. Please submit more!

 
Research Fellow in Urban Development and Design, University of Stavangen (NO). Closing date: 01/05/08.
View the page News to find out more.

 
Research Fellow, University of Surrey. “Assessing the potential risk of, and possible responses to, zoonotic diseases on the development of recreational land use of British forests and wild-lands”. Closing date: 30/04/08.
View the page News to find out more.

 
Southern Andes Conservation Program Director. Santiago, Chile. View the page News to find out more.
 
Associate Professor, Urban & Environmental Planning. The Griffith School of Environment. Closing date: 18/04/08. View the page News to find out more.
 
ONE-YEAR VISITING ASSISTANT/ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR. Florida State University. Closing date: 30/04/08. View the page News to find out more.
 
Faculty Position: Human Behavior and Design - Cornell University. View the page News to find out more.
 
Associate Research Fellow - Sustainable Lifestyles (Ref J48N1182): University of Exeter, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources. View the page News to find out more.


 

Visit the new searchable database resource on the OPENspace website, by the OPENspace research centre at the Edinburgh College of Art (UK). Posted by Professor Catharine Ward Thompson, Director


     
IAPS works to stimulate research and innovation to improve human well-being and the physical environment
IAPS encourages and promotes innovative research in several fields, and disseminates it through its numerous publications. View the page Bulletin and publications to find out more.
       
IAPS Bulletinn n. 32. It is now available online!!

Editor: Dr Ricardo Garcia Mira
People-Environment Research Unit
Social Psychology Laboratory
Department of Psychology
Faculty of Educational Sciences
University of Corunna
Campus de Elvina,
15071 A Coruna, Spain

Remember to download also n 30 (Special issue: '25 years on' if you don't have it yet!).

       
 

Designing for Designers: Lessons Learned from Schools of Architecture

Jack l. nasar The Ohio State University, Wolfgang F.E. Preiser University of Cincinnati, Thomas Fisher University of Minnesota

Download order form here and read more about the book!

       
 

Urban Sustainability
Through Environmental Design
Approaches to Time, People and Place Responsive Urban Spaces


Edited by:
Kevin Thwaites, University of Sheffield, UK
Sergio Porta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy,
Ombretta Romice, University of Strathclyde, UK and
Mark Greaves, Glasgow City Council

What can architects, landscape architects and urban
designers do to make urban open spaces, streets and
squares, more responsive, lively and safe? ....

Download order form here and read more about the book!

       
 

Rotraut Walden

Architectural Psychology:
School, University and Office Buildings
of the Future


With an introduction by Prof. Dr. W. F. E. Preiser, Cincinnati, Ohio

Download here the order form (and read more about the book!)

 

       
 

Robert Gifford's 4th, revised and completed edition of "Environmental Psychology".
Optima Books

For further information or an inspection copy
(please provide the course name and number)
call (509) 732-1250, or
email hermit@plix.com
Download here the book brochure and table of contents

       
  Ashraf M. Salama and Nicholas Wilkinson (editors) (2007). Design Studio Pedagogy: Horizons for the Future.
The Urban International Press, Gateshead,
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom.
ISBN # 1-872811-09-04

Read more downloading this PDF File
       
  New Book: Morval, J. (2007). La psychologie Environnementale. Montréal: Les Preses Universitaires de Montréal, 115p.
       

Ashraf Salama (Professor of Architecture at Quatar University)
Chief Editor, Archnet-IJAR, is happy to announce the launch of: Archnet- International Journal of Architectural research, an Electronic Academic Peer Reviewed Journal (Architecture, Planning and Environmental Studies), published 3 times per year.
Download here an outline of the Journal in PDF, and contact Ashraf for more details on how to contribute to the Journal!
View the page Bulletin and publications to find out more.

   
IAPS Digital Library
Visit the updated IAPS digital library at
http://iaps.scix.net for information about papers from past IAPS conferences

   
Donations to IAPS
IAPS is a charity and operates on a voluntary basis to produce the Bulletin, conferences and information to our members. If you would like to make a welcome donation to the running of IAPS, or would like more information, please contact our treasurer Birgitta Gattersleben at b.gattersleben@surrey.ac.uk

 
 
   
       
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