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The Committee on Design (COD) was founded to promote design excellence among members of the AIA, the broader design community, and the public at large, both nationally and internationally.

2024 COD Conferences

Arkansas

April 3-7 | 21c Hotel | Bentonville and Eureka Springs - Registration is sold out.

Brazil

Thu, Oct 17 - Sat, Oct 26, 2024
Sao Paulo > Brasilia > Rio de Janerio.  Registration will open in late April.

2024 Sponsorships

Download the prospectus for Arkansas and Brazil opportunities.


2023 COD Conferences

Last year, COD held two domestic design conferences investigating The Authenticity of Place.  The first conference was held in New Orleans, LA.  View the short video of the venue tours and download the conference program book. The second conference was held in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, September 21-24, 2023. Download the Minneapolis guidebook and view the conference video

CONFERENCE: "PRACTICE, CRAFT, MATERIALS, AND MAKING"

  • 1.  CONFERENCE: "PRACTICE, CRAFT, MATERIALS, AND MAKING"

    Posted 10-07-2016 10:59 AM

    This is a call for Papers, Presentations, and Workshops: 2017 Conference of the Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Forum, at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts

    Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Forum (ACSF), an international academic-practitioner network, announces their 9th annual symposium "Practice, Craft, Materials, and Making” to be held May14-18, 2017, at the renowned Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle, Maine.

    ACSF is inviting an expanded range of proposal types in order to illuminate, and experiment with, ideas on the spiritual dimensions of practice, craft, materials, and making of architecture and landscape architecture. Proposals from individuals new to ACSF, including practitioners, graduate students, and those who have attended in the past but not presented, are especially welcomed and encouraged.

    Poet Annie Finch, comparative religion scholar Lindsay Jones, potter Daniel Johnston, and architectural scholar Bradford Grant will provide four keynotes.

    Haystack’s spectacular campus on Deer Isle is a five-hour drive from Boston. It is easily reached from Bangor International Airport (1 hour, 20 minutes) and Portland (3 hours).

    We invite proposals for pre-organized sessions, project presentations, traditional papers, and workshops. Proposals are due Tuesday, January 17, 2017.

    For full details, please consult the ACS9 website: http://www.acsforum.org/symposium2017/

    Should you have any questions, please feel free to address them to the conference co-chairs Ben Jacks, Rebecca Krinke, and Mikesch Muecke at: acs9deerisle@gmail.com
    http://www.acsforum.org/symposium2017/

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    Michael Crosbie FAIA
    Editor-in-Chief
    Faith & Form
    Essex CT
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