12633 Resort Drive
Moravia, IA 52571
CYCLES —
Material Life,
Carbon,
Nutrient,
and Seasonal
SBSE Retreat 2018 “Cycles,” Honey Creek Resort near Moravia, Iowa, 15–18 Jul
Faculty, practitioners, content experts, and students will share tools; case studies; and innovative lecture, lab, and studio exercises through short talks; hands-on activities; and workshopst. "Cycles" will focus on the strategies, tools, ideas, and methods we use to teach, practice, and inspire our students in the integration of buildings, landscapes, neighborhoods, and cities through material, carbon, seasonal, and nutrient cycles as part of the larger watershed.
We will schedule 15–20 workshops and presentations for the retreat, selected through a review process that will balance content and schedule.
AIA/CES credits available!
Topics for Sessions and Workshops
- Material Life Cycles—How life cycles of resources and local relationships inform teaching and practice.
- Carbon Cycles—How to enhance understandings of carbon cycles in addition to energy as part of the design process.
- Nutrient Cycles—The food–energy–water nexus at the urban–periurban–rural interface for community and building design.
- Seasonal Cycles—Promote the design of buildings to benefit from or to withstand solar, wind, water, relative humidity, and other potentially changing climatic cycles.
- Strategies and Tools—Exemplary tools, methods, and design strategies that teach the importance of the wide range of environmental strategies in design and planning.
- Roundtable Discussions and Working Groups—“Hot” topics that might include case studies, book and grant proposals, promotion/tenure/mentorship issues, contributions to the 2050 Imperative, and so on.
Event Coordination
Program Committee:
- Alexandra Rempel, University of Oregon
- Kris Nelson, University of Florida
- Eric Carbonnier, HM Architects
Site Coordinator:
- Ulrike Passe and James Leach, University of Florida
Website and Newsletter:
- Bruce Haglund, University of Idaho
Scholarships:
- Jonathan Bean, University of Arizona
Venue / Lodging
Honey Creek Resort
When you stay at Honey Creek Resort, you'll enjoy the ultimate vacation destination, with a wide array of on-site activities and outdoor adventures just steps away from where you stay. Cruise through the waters of gorgeous Rathbun Lake, splash around at our indoor water park, tee up at our 18-hole championship golf course, discover nature's wonders with our hands-on educational programs, indulge your taste buds at our restaurant, or head outdoors for endless adventures.
Our Commitment to Conservation
As a leader in sustainable practices, we are proud to meet high environmental standards. Honey Creek Resort is one of Iowa's only hotels to receive LEED® certification; The Preserve is an Audubon-certified golf course; and the Activities Building is designed to be a net-zero energy.
About Honey Creek State Park
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources manages both Honey Creek Resort and the original 850-acre Honey Creek State Park. Honey Creek State Park offers camping, cabins, heated shower facilities, trails, and a boat ramp.
About Rathbun Lake
Rathbun Lake is a flood protection lake managed by the Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps has a Visitors Center that provides information about Rathbun Lake's natural resources.
The Iowa DNR also operates the Rathbun Fish Hatchery, which raises channel catfish, walleye, saugeye, and largemouth bass, which are then stocked in other Iowa lakes. Visitors are welcome year-round.
For more information, visit the
Honey Creek Website
Honey Creek Resort
12633 Resort Drive
Moravia, IA 52571
Driving Directions Summary
- From Des Moines, take Highway US-69 S to IA-5 S
- Continue on IA-5 through Carlisle, Knoxville, Albia and on to Moravia (approximately 65 miles)
- Turn right onto Co Rd J18 / State Hwy 142
- Continue to follow State Hwy 142 (5.4 miles)
- Turn left onto Resort Dr, (1.4 miles)
- Arrive at Honey Creek Resort, 12633 Resort Drive, Moravia, IA 52571
CAR POOLING URL
Coming by car? Please check, to see if you can take a slight detour and pick up other participants as they arrive at the airport, to minimize vehicle travel to the Resort. If you plan to rent a car, offer your spare seats to other participants.https://www.groupcarpool.com/t/2h5u37
Directions Narrative. Honey Creek Resort State Park is a major vacation destination at Rathbun Lake in South East Iowa in a remote rural location. For GPS devices, log in: Resort Dr, Moravia, IA 52571.
From Des Moines Airport you first head south on Fleur Drive till you reach the junction with IA 5 South. Drive south on IA 5 South, follow this road southeast for about an hour passing Carlisle to Knoxville. The last Knoxville exit south, which is the continuation of IA 5 south towards Albia. The road will become a single lane road for most of the rest of the drive. (Once you are in Albia, you need to take a quick tour around the central town square around the county court house. You'll see a fully restored Iowa county seat town square known for ‘Operation Facelift’.)
Leave Albia following IA-5-south for another 10 miles and you'll see two water towers. The left tower marks Moravia, the right is for Rathbun Lake area. At the intersection leading to the Rathbun Lake water tower you turn right onto Co Rd J18. Signs also indicate Honey Creek Resort State Park. Drive past the water tower untill you reach the entrance to the Honey Creek Resort State Park after about 4 miles on your left. (The actual State Park of the same name is a few miles further down the road.)
Once past the gate drive past the Golf Course (watch the speed limits and the golf carts) until a windmill indicates the actual lodge. It is ahead of you. Park and check-in. We will start the prairie walk from the lobby at 4pm. Dinner will be at 5.30pm at the lodge.
Call for Submissions
We call on faculty, practitioners, content experts, and students to share tools; case studies; and innovative lecture, lab, and studio exercises through short talks; hands-on activities; and workshops at the 2018 SBSE annual retreat. Cycles will focus on the strategies, tools, ideas, and methods we use to teach, practice, and inspire our students in the integration of buildings, landscapes, neighborhoods, and cities through material, carbon, seasonal, and nutrient cycles as part of the larger watershed.
We invite proposals for a 30-minute presentation or a 60-minute workshop on any of the themes below. Proposals must include innovative pedagogical content that relates to teaching and learning for design studio, lecture, or seminar courses. Sessions will take place in parallel, and the venue will hold approximately 25 in each room. We are looking for 15–20 workshops and presentations for the retreat, selected through a review process that will balance content and schedule.
Topics for Sessions and Workshops
- Material Life Cycles—How life cycles of resources and local relationships inform teaching and practice.
- Carbon Cycles—How to enhance understandings of carbon cycles in addition to energy as part of the design process.
- Nutrient Cycles—The food–energy–water nexus at the urban–periurban–rural interface for community and building design.
- Seasonal Cycles—Promote the design of buildings to benefit from or to withstand solar, wind, water, relative humidity, and other potentially changing climatic cycles.
- Strategies and Tools—Exemplary tools, methods, and design strategies that teach the importance of the wide range of environmental strategies in design and planning.
- Roundtable Discussions and Working Groups—“Hot” topics that might include case studies, book and grant proposals, promotion/tenure/mentorship issues, contributions to the 2050 Imperative, and so on.
Your proposals must include (See Proposal Template below):
- Name(s) of session organizer/presenter
- Contact information (institution, email, telephone)
- Session type—30-minute activity and/or 60-minute workshop
- Title of your presentation/workshop
- Description (250 words max.)
- Topic addressed by your proposal (choose from those above)
- Learning objectives (3–5 goals to be achieved by participants)
- Intended outcomes and deliverables
- Take away (if any) for attendees.
E-mail your proposal to Ulrike Passe <upasse@iastate.edu> by 1 Mar 2018, 5:00pm Pacific Time.
Critical Dates:
- September 2017 Announcement
- December 2017 Call for Proposals
- January 15, 2018 Registration Opens
- March 17, 2018 Proposal Deadline extended
- March 1, 2018 Jeff Cook Scholarship applications due
- March 15, 2018 Proposal Notifications
- April 1, 2018 SBSE Student Scholarship applications due
- April 15, 2018 Presenters Registration deadline
- May 15, 2018 Registration deadline
- July 15 - 18, 2018 Retreat
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Proposal Template | 21.23 KB |
Registration
Registration is handled through our membership portal at WildApricot.
Please follow this link to the
Schedule
SBSE Retreat 2018 Schedule
CYCLES
Honey Creek Resort
Moravia, Iowa
July 15 to July 18, 2018
Retreat Welcome Sunday, July 15
3:00-5:30 pm |
Check in |
4:00-5:00 pm |
Prairie walk interpretative trail walk |
5:30-6:30 pm |
Dinner |
7:00 pm |
Welcome and Evening Lecture: Matt Liebman Professor ISU Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture, "Enhancing Biodiversity in the Corn Belt to Improve Yields, Environmental Health, and Resilience" |
Retreat Sessions Monday, July 16
7:30 am |
Breakfast |
8:30-9:30 am |
HALL 1: Workshop 1 (60 min.) |
HALL 2: Track A (2 @ 30 min. each) Material World (Walter Grondzik) Race to Zero (Tom Collins, Walter Grondzik) |
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9:30-10:30 am |
Open Time: Explore & Network |
10:30-11:30 am |
HALL 1: Workshop 2 (60 min.) |
Noon-1:00 pm | Lunch |
1:30-5:00 pm |
Tours:
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5:30-6:30 pm | Dinner |
8:00-9:30 pm | Evening Lecture/Activity Bonfire Courtyard: Thermal Delight Poetry Slam |
Retreat Sessions Tuesday, July 17
7:30 am |
Breakfast |
8:30-9:30 am |
HALL 1: Workshop 3 (60 min.) (Strategies and Tools) HALL 2: Track B (2 @ 30 min. each) (Strategies and Tools) |
9:30-10:30 am | SBSE ANNUAL MEETING over Coffee Break; |
10:30-11:30 am |
HALL 1: Workshop 4 (60 min.) (Strategies & Tools) HALL 2: Track C (2 @ 30 min. each) (Knowledge Cycles) |
Noon-1:00 pm | Lunch |
2:00-3:00 pm |
HALL 1: Workshop 5 (60 min.) (Circadian Cycles) HALL 2: Track B (2 @ 30 min. each) (Strategies & Tools) |
3:00-3:30 pm | Cookie Break |
3:30-4:30 pm | Cook Scholar Presentations (10 min. each) Student Scholars (2 min. each) |
4:30-5:30 pm | SBSE Group Photo |
5:30-6:30 pm | Dinner |
7:00-9:30 pm | Evening Teaching Exchange (Omiyage) [Interlock House] 2019 Retreat Proposals |
Retreat Tour (Optional) Wednesday, July 18
7:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart Honey Creek |
10.45am | Arrive Des Moines Art Center (Saarinen, Pei, Meier) by individual cars Tour the Art Center and gardens and have lunch there |
10-minute drive | |
12.45pm | Drake University Campus |
10-minute drive | |
1.30pm | Consumer advocacy building by BNIM |
10-minute drive | |
2.45pm | Building by Gordon Bunshaft |
4.00pm | Krause Gateway Kum and Go by Renzo Piano |
5.00pm | Pappajohn Sculpture Park / Public Library by Chipperfield |
5.30pm | Reception at Substance and talk about Kieran Timberlake Student Innovation Center |
6.30pm | Conclude the day…individual / small groups dinner / depart ... |
Participants
Afifi, Emad—Savanah College of Art and Design (SCAD) |
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Andrasik, Patricia—The Catholic University of America |
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Azad, Hassan *—University of Florida |
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Brainard, Gabrielle—Rensselaer Polytechnic (RPI) |
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Grondzik, Walter—Ball State University |
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Guzowski, Mary—University of Minnesota |
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Haglund, Bruce—University of Idaho |
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Iulo, Lisa—Penn State |
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Jo, Soo Jeong *—Virginia Tech |
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Jonathan Bean—University of Arizona |
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Kwok, Alison—University of Oregon |
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Leach, James—University of Florida |
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Lenon, Traci *—University of Arizona |
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McGlynn, Michael—Kansas State University |
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Melvin, Veigas *—Iowa State University |
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Nelson, Kristin—University of Florida |
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Nezamdoost, Amir *—University of Oregon |
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Passe, Ulrike—Iowa State University |
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Reichard, Georg—Virginia Tech |
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Samuelson, Holly—Harvard University |
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Satumane, Anupam *—University of Texas at San Antonio |
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Tarabieh, Khaled (Cook Fellow)—The American University in Cairo |
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Timmer, Alexander—University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
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Wasley, James—University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee |
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* Student Scholarship Awardees |
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Additional Information
WHAT TO BRING
Weather in July _ Moravia, Iowa
Temperatures in Moravia, Iowa in the month of July typically range from the high 80 °F (31 °C) or low 90s (34°C) during the day to the low 60 °F (15-18 °C) in the evenings. Days are hot and nights are comfortable, so layers are appropriate. Rain and thunderstorms are possible, so bring waterproof rain gear and/or an umbrella. You will need a sunhat, sunscreen, and bug repellent (SBSE will have some options available for use as well).
Teaching Omiyage (gift in Japanese and an SBSE tradition)
An omiyage is a gift or souvenir you give to friends, coworkers, and family after returning home from a trip. They also vary depending on the region. (https://blog.gaijinpot.com/japans-curious-omiyage-culture/).
Please bring a teaching gift for each of the participants (approximately 30 people). In past years, omiyage has included memorable teaching gifts such as bandana for acoustical walks, pocket balometer, pocket pyranometer, magnetic concrete, watercolors, a hand-bound book, bubbles for airflow, images from textbooks, PV hats, syllabi, publications, truffles(!), and many more creative and crafted teaching/learning gifts.
What-to-Bring Checklist
While the lodge has all amenities of a good hotel, it is fairly remote, thus bring personal needed items for three days. The lodge will provide all linens, towels, meals, coffee etc and daytime snacks. SBSE will have extra sunscreen and bug repellent. Recommended items include the following:
* Layered clothing (it’s hot during the day and comfortable in the evening)
* Swim suit and water-proof shoes for kayaking/paddle boarding, if you don’t want to go bare feet
* Comfortable hiking shoes
* Sunscreen, sunhat, and sunshades (there is limited shade outside near the building)
* Raingear and/or umbrella (doubles as a parasol)
* Bug repellent
* Omiyage (30 people)
* Birding binoculars (American bald eagles are not uncommon sightings)
* Stargazing app
* Flashlight
* Snacks and beverages of choice for evening (meals and snacks are provided during the day).
* The lodge has a full bar and a small shop, but the next real grocery store is 15 miles away in Centerville, the next gas station 4 miles away in Moravia.
Des Moines Hotels (optional post-retreat lodging)
Des Moines Marriott Downtown
Des Lux Hotel
Hyatt Place Des Moines/Downtown
These are higher-end hotels located right in Downtown. This is a walkable area with plenty of bars and restaurants.
Embassy Suites by Hilton Des Moines Downtown
Staybridge Suites Des Moines Downtown
AC Hotel by Marriott Des Moines East Village
These are a little less expensive than the true downtown locations. About a 10 or 15-minute walk from Downtown in the hipster-y East Village neighborhood with a selection of boutique shops and restaurants.
Holiday Inn Express Des Moines - At Drake University
The least expensive and most basic of these options. Located a short drive from Downtown, in a quieter area. Right next door to the local, 50s-style Drake Diner.