Hi all,
I’m involved with an advisory cttee that is helping to organize an exhibit
on active living and health/built environment issues at the local Center
for Architecture here in NYC.
The June 2013 exhibit will showcase best practices and will provide a great
visual way for people to learn more about the connection between health and
the built environment. There’s an open call for projects/case studies to be
highlighted in the exhibition right now, so please do submit any good
examples you know of – particularly ones that would be visually compelling.
And feel free to forward this on to others. I think it’s important for
there to be a wide diversity of community and project types from across the
country. The hope is that this exhibit would also be able to ‘travel’ to
other communities outside of NYC, as well, so as soon as I know more about
opportunities for that, I’ll share info.
Thanks! Here’s the info and the link at which folks can submit
projects/example. Kate
http://aiany.aiany.org/index.php?section=FitNation
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This June the Center for Architecture will open FitNation, an exhibition on
active design in the United States. The exhibition continues the discussion
started by initiatives like New York City’s Active Design
Guidelines<http://www.nyc.gov/html/ddc/html/design/active_design.shtml&g…ml>,
and the Fit City conference, now in its 8th
year<http://cfa.aiany.org/index.php?section=calendar&evtid=5241>d=5241>.
FitNation will present active design—defined as environmental design that
encourages stair climbing, walking, bicycling, transit use, active
recreation, and healthful eating—at a range of scales. It will show how
designers and architects in partnership with city and national governments
encourage increased physical activity and greater attention to health
through the built environment.
The exhibition will present years of research and professional dialogue to
the public. Renderings, photographs, drawings, animations, and objects will
demonstrate the many ways that design can encourage physical activity to
combat obesity and chronic health problems. We are looking for the best
examples of completed project that demonstrate active design, both in New
York City and the greater United States, for inclusion in the show.
Please let us know if you have a project that incorporates the following in
a focused, innovative manner:
• Stair climbing
• Walking
• Bicycling
• Transit use or other active methods of moving through an urban area
• Active recreation, exercise, sports
• Healthful eating and drinking
• Active adaptive reuse of an existing project, space, or architectural
feature
• Retrofits that encourage more active use of an existing project
Please follow these submission procedures if you would like to have your
projects considered for the exhibition:
• A PDF with up to five images and a brief description or bullets of key
features as they relate to the themes above
• File size no larger than 5 MB
• Email submission to Juliana Barton, Exhibitions Coordinator(
jbarton@aiany.org<jbarton@aiany.org?subject=FitNation%20Open%20Call%20Submission>)
by February 22nd at 5 PM EST
Any questions, please contact Juliana Barton
(jbarton@aiany.org<jbarton@aiany.org?subject=FitNation%20Open%20Call%20Question>/
212-358-6120) or Berit Hoff, Acting Director of Exhibitions, (
bhoff(a)aiany.org
<bhoff(a)aiany.org?subject=FitNation%20Open%20Call%20Question>/
212-358-6138).
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Kate Rube
Transportation Program Manager
Project for Public Spaces
419 Lafayette Street, Seventh Floor
New York, NY 10003
212-620-5660 x326
krube(a)pps.org
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