Events, Lectures + Exhibitions : Planners Network Conference on Design
The conference was held June 2-5, 2005, with over 250 participants.

Call for Participation

Interested in proposing a session on one of the suggested conference topics listed below? Interested in proposing a session or something else? Email Ann Forsyth with a suggestion at forsyth@umn.edu. State the proposed session content, format, and a list of potential speakers, panelists, or participants.

Topics include:

  • Planning and designing with aboriginal communities
  • Housing
  • Universal design in the urban environment
  • Community design
  • Sustainable/ecological design
  • Healthy cities, including food and the city
  • Public art
  • Planning and organizing beyond design
  • Open workshops

Sessions that are being organized include:

  • Green and Sustainable Universities and Colleges: student driven initiatives
  • The State of America's Indigenous Peoples
  • Current Planning Opportunities and Challenges Confronting Indigenous Peoples
  • Potential for collaboration among grassroots leaders from indigenous communities, Native American planners and planning students, and planning schools.
  • A primer in affordable housing development
  • Sustainable and Affordable: infill housing strategies in center cities.
  • Accessibility Planning: Including Marginalized Persons in the Built Environment
  • Encouraging Inclusion: Perspectives on Land Use Law
  • Organizing Local Planners Network Chapters
  • Representing Identity in Urban Environment
  • Affordable Rural Housing
  • New Models in Manufactured Housing
  • Communicating Issues: magazines, newsletters, websites and blogs
  • Latino Urbanism
  • Locally-Based Economic Development
  • Skills for Designing for Active Living
  • Making Space(s) for Difference: Insurgent, Pedagogical and Planning Process Strategies
  • Supportive Housing or Independent Living: Policies and Choices
  • Community Action for Anti-Imperialist Strategies
  • University Design Centers and Engagement with Low Income Communities
  • CDC's roles in Revitalizing Neighborhoods and Communities

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