Human-Centric Design
EDRA 55 PORTLAND | HUMAN CENTRIC ENVIRONMENTS: Promoting Design that Sustains Human Prosperity, Well-being, and the Global Environment at All Scales
HILTON DOWNTOWN PORTLAND - JUNE 19-22, 2024
The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) invites practitioners, researchers, and educators to submit their proposals for EDRA’s 55th annual conference. The event is hosted by the University of Oregon in Portland, Oregon, and will center on promoting human-centric design that considers people’s prosperity, satisfaction, and well-being while celebrating sustainability, resilience, and diversity in the built and natural environment at all scales.
EDRA55 Conference Tracks
EDRA55PDX will be a progressive setting to question and explore human-centric environments and design in six conference tracks and scales. We will frame our discussions in all of the conference tracks of our design, research, and policy projects by asking key questions:
How can the design of the built and natural environments be analyzed and evaluated from a human-centric perspective?
How can we think of the multiple subthemes and tracks from a premise of putting the human at the center of our design and research projects?
What is the role of human-centric design and research in the age of AI?
What does it mean to occupy environments that are both human-made and human-centric?
How can teaching future generations of designers flourish with transdisciplinary collaborations that celebrate human-centric design pedagogies?
#EDRA55PDX invites you to download our call for proposals, and submit your work on our submission portal. The EDRA55 conference committee can assist you with questions about your submission. Just email conference@edra.org.
1. NATURE AND URBAN ECOLOGY
2. SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
3. RESILIENT DESIGN FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
4. DESIGN FOR HEALTH AND WELLBEING
5. SPATIAL JUSTICE, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION BY DESIGN
6. TRANSDISCIPLINARY DESIGN & COLLABORATION open track