COVID-19: Resources for Working, Learning, and Moving Forward
A curated list of a few hand-picked resources to help the AAO community adjust to a different way of working, gathering, and communicating during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A curated list of a few hand-picked resources to help the AAO community adjust to a different way of working, gathering, and communicating during the COVID-19 pandemic.
December 13, 2023
10:00am to 1:00pm Central Time
If architecture is to matter in the world, then we need clear information and many more outlets to learn about architecture and design. We need life-shaping experiences and conversations to reach young people.
Clockwise from top: AAO Board Chair Sarah Herda opens the conference; funders’ panel with Justin Garrett Moore, Judilee Reed, and Ben Prosky; Owen Nichols explains a multi-layered architectural print during a site visit to a83; José Esparza Chong Cuy shares several Storefront projects; and Andrew Brown leads a community-centered design workshop with Van Alen.
Thanks to those of us who joined in to view our recent program, "Lessons from the Pandemic: Learning From Neighborhoods Now." If you missed it, you can view a videorecording of this engaging conversation, where we talked with Deborah Marton (Van Alen Institute) and Daniel McPhee (Urban Design Forum), about their work with the Neighborhoods Now initiative.
AAO hosts regularly scheduled conference calls for several of our networks--including Public Programs, Tours, Fundraising, Exhibitions, and K-12 Education. These are support groups and info exchanges, we encourage that a representative or two from your organization participate!
The below list of resources focuses on practical steps museums, arts/culture, and architecture organizations can take to address systemic racism and racial bias within their own organizations, including several links to recommended readings for staff.
The American Camp Association has been out front on developing and communicating guidelines for gathering youth either in person or virtually this summer amidst COVID-19. They have released some rather comprehensive guidelines for in-person camps, developed in concert with a reputable environmental health organization and following CDC guidelines.
Join the world-renowned Danish architects BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group on an architectural journey across time from Big Bang to Singularity.
This resource is about increasing diversity in the field of architecture. It provides data on the numbers of African Americans and Hispanics in professional architectural practice, as well as an examination of K-12 architecture education, popular media, and other feeders into collegiate schools of architecture. The report seeks to better understand the potential barriers that may limit an individual of color from accessing, pursuing, and succeeding in the architecture profession and the academy.
This resource includes an audio archive (length: 39 minutes) of the March 2015 AAO Webinar entitled "Ask the Experts: Board Engagement." Hosts for this webinar were Beth Miller, Executive Director of the Community Design Collaborative (Philadelphia, PA) and Lynn Osmond, President & CEO of the Chicago Architecture Foundation. The webinar consists of general questions on board engagement posed by AAO members at large and answered by the webinar hosts.