8th annual "Design For Dignity” Conference - 2023
Making It Happen
The focus this year will be “Making It Happen”.
Design for Dignity will serve as a forum to leverage the expertise of architects to achieve cost-containment, neighborhood engagement/ community buy-in, and insight about how to best overcome specific regulatory and procedural hurdles, hardships, and ‘red-tape’.
The overarching theme will center on implementation and execution, with sub-themes of “Citizen Architects”, policy/ advocacy topics, and technical delivery expertise. Design for Dignity will help strengthen and communicate the leadership role of “inclusive housing architects” in realizing solutions to the housing and homelessness crises.
The architecture community is in a strategic place to not only deliver technical solutions to achieve high quality design, reduce costs, and speed construction, but to also share valuable expertise at the front end, contributing to land use policy, research, etc.
WHEN | WHERE | LEARNING UNITS
Thursday, November 9, 2023
8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Design for Dignity 2023 will be an in-person Conference.
Location:
designed by Lehrer Architects, 2019 Design Award Citation Winner
251 South Mission Road
Los Angeles, CA 90033
PROGRAM
TICKETS
AIA Member – $120
Non-Member – $155
Students – $55
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Support a conference that advances our profession, increase visibility for your firm, and pick up tickets for your staff.
Panelists
Ben J. Winter
Senior Vice President, Linc Housing
Marc Janda
Senior Vice President of Development, AvalonBay Communities, Inc.
Brian Lane, FAIA
Principal, Koning Eizenberg Architecture
Dana Sayles
Owner/ Principal, Three 6ixty
Jeromy Rogan
Project Executive, Morley Builders
Don E. Empakeris, AIA, ARA, NCARB
Principal, DE Architects, AIA
Speakers
Leslie Sydnor, AIA, NOMA, LEED AP
President, AIA Los Angeles & Director, Cumming Corp.
Dr. Rueben Smith
Vice Chancellor/Chief Facilities Executive, Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD)
Anne Riggs, AIA, CASp
Associate / Inclusive Design Lead, David Baker Architects
John H. Arnold, AIA
Partner, KFA Architecture
Giovanna Araujo, LFA
Design and Sustainability Consultant, Modest Studio
Tara Barauskas, LEED AP
Executive Director, Community Corporation of Santa Monica
Nerin Kadribegovic, FAIA
Principal, KADRE ARCHITECTS
Tim Kohut, AIA
Director of Sustainable Design, National Community Renaissance
Marcela Oliva, Assoc. AIA
Professor of Architecture and Environmental Design, LATTC
Ali Barar, AIA
Managing Principal, GGA
Ashley Marsh, RA
Senior Director, Advancement, MASS Design Group (Boston)
Mark Lahmon, AIA, LEED AP
Principal, Lahmon Architects
Aham Nwede
Senior Project Manager, Shawmut Design and Construction
Gio Aliano, AIA
Board Director (AIA CA Rep), AIA Los Angeles
Martin Ramirez Jr., AIA, NOMA
Vice President, Gannett Fleming
Kimberly Dowdell, AIA, NOMAC
2023 President-elect, The American Institute of Architects
Sean L. Leonard
President & CEO, S.L. Leonard & Associates, Inc.
AIA CES: 6 LU|HSW Applied For
Learning Objective 1:
Participants will be able to identify best-practices and communicate directly with the architects, contractors, housing developers, clients, funders, and service providers that are working to deliver housing and supportive services to our communities.
Learning Objective 2:
Participants will discuss housing solutions that can inspire the community and educate policy makers, planners, architects, designers, real estate professionals, housing advocates, and civic leaders.
Learning Objective 3:
Participants will be able to outline how supportive services for residents can be better integrated into housing projects, how mixed income communities can be developed, and how these projects can be integrated into the community without creating stigmas.
Learning Objective 4:
Participants will benefit from the expertise of architects regarding ways to achieve cost-containment, neighborhood engagement/ community buy-in, and insight about how to best overcome specific regulatory and procedural hurdles, hardships, and ‘red-tape’.
Learning Objective 5:
Participants will be able to communicate the leadership role of “inclusive housing architects” in realizing solutions to the housing and homelessness crises. The architecture community is in a strategic place to not only deliver technical solutions to achieve high quality design, reduce costs, and speed construction, but to also share valuable expertise at the front end, contributing to land use policy, research, etc.
Learning Objective 6:
Participants will explore case studies of successful housing solutions, including examples from the “Nomadic” architecture typology, presented by a Senior Project Manager and a Sustainability Strategist.
Presenting Sponsor
Student Scholarship Sponsor
Printed Material by
Friends of Design with Dignity Sponsors
Participating Sponsors
