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Unique in the ever-expanding universe of award programs, our concern is for good places and how people inhabit them. We seek entries of exemplary work, inviting participation from a range of design and research disciplines, recognizing projects whose significance extends beyond any one profession or field. Projects should emphasize a link between research and practice, demonstrating how an understanding of human interaction with place can inspire design.

Awards recognize
Design: Excellence in human environments, completed projects.
Planning: Proposals for future design, use, or management of a place.
Research: Projects investigating relationships between design, human behavior, culture, and experience.
Book: Recently published books advancing the critical understanding of place and design of exceptional environments.

Jurors
DavidLake, Lake/Flato Architects
Elizabeth MacDonald, City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley
Rahul Mehrotra, Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lawrence Speck, Page Sutherland Page
William Sullivan, Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

For information visit
Environmental Design Research Association, www.edra.org
Places: Forum of Design for the Public Realm, www.places-journal.org

Deadline: February 9, 2009

The research centre for inclusive access to outdoor environments
In association with Landscape Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art
and the School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University.

Visit the new website at http://www.openspace.eca.ac.uk/

Professors Gary Gumpert and Susan Drucker announce the establishment of the Urban Communication Foundation.

We are pleased to announce the establishment of the Urban Communication Foundation. This foundation has been formed to promote and support research into urban communication, sponsor activities, encourage young scholars, and reward outstanding scholarship in this broadly defined area. The entity has been established in the U.S. as a 501 (c ) (3) not-for-profit corporation.

Specifically, initial activities are being designed to encourage more interest in urban communication research and acquaint external constituencies and communities with the value and relevance of communication research to their work (e.g. community leaders, architectural and design experts, community designers, relevant policy makers, social activists, etc.).

University of Toronto

Dean, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design

Established in 1827 by royal charter, the University of Toronto is the largest and most prestigious research-intensive university in Canada, located in one of the world’s great cities. The University has more than 11,000 faculty and staff, some 70,000 students enrolled across three campuses, an annual budget of $1.7 billion, including $375 million in externally funded research and $425 million in research funding in the affiliated teaching hospitals, an endowment of $1.8 billion and one of the premier research university libraries in North America.

The John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design offers rigorous programs of study with a focus on interdisciplinary training and research through its Master of Architecture, Master of Landscape Architecture, Master of Urban Design, and BA in Architectural Studies. Daniels is at the forefront of the changing fields of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design and the convergence of new media, materials, and building technologies that have led to radical change in the design fields. The Faculty has a global orientation in its teaching and research while simultaneously upholding the importance of addressing local forces. Situated in the largest city in Canada and one of the most dynamic in North America, Daniels provides access to a dynamic multi-ethnic and multicultural laboratory for the critical studies and imaginative exploration of design alternatives that are of consequence internationally. Its international profile is enhanced by the Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design. Daniels is the home of the University of Toronto Cities Centre, a multidisciplinary research centre that focuses on research in urban affairs and brings together scholars from civil engineering, geography, landscape architecture, planning, political science, social work, and urban design. For 118 years, Daniels graduates have spread across Canada and the world as innovators and leaders in the design professions with 3,605 alumni currently living in more than 50 countries. For more information, please visit the Daniels website at www.daniels.utoronto.ca.

The successful candidate will be a distinguished leader, with outstanding academic and professional achievements and a record as an exemplary administrator, preferably with experience in advancement, collaborative team building, and in relating to a range of external partners. The Dean will provide dynamic community, national and international leadership to enhance the Faculty’s endeavours, and to realize the aspirations of the University of Toronto’s academic plan.

The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.

Consideration of candidates will begin in November 2008, with the appointment of the successful candidate to take effect July 2009. Applications including a letter of introduction, curriculum vitae, and five references (who will not be contacted without the consent of the applicant) should be forwarded, in confidence, to:

Laverne Smith & Associates Inc.

1 Yonge Street, Suite 1801

Toronto, ON M5E 1W7

uotarchitecture@lavernesmith.com