4/20 - Sfnoma general body meeting show notes
NOMA National Conference 2021 Detroit
Call for Presenters Due April 30th at 9pm PST - Apply here www.noma.net/call-for-presenters/
We're celebrating 50 years of NOMA and are encouraging researchers and designers in the fields of architecture, urbanism, landscape design, and urban planning to submit sessions.
NOMA National Conference 2021 - Detroit Pre Registration
Please Register here!
membership.noma.net/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1435858&group=
Project Pipeline - This Summer!
Project Pipeline Camps will be held virtually at the Regional and Local level this year.
Interested in volunteering for Project Pipeline or being apart of the camp core leadership team - Please email camp@sfnoma.net
50 x 50 Challenge - 50 New Licensed Architects by October 2021
NOMA has challenged our emerging architects to take those next few steps to become licensed this year as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of NOMA. If you plan on becoming a licensed architect this year as a part of our 50x50 Challenge. Please email tiffany.mayhew@noma.net with subject: 50x50 Challenge Accepted.
We need your name, address, state in which you are pursuing licensure. Thank you and good luck!
SFNOMA is also working on providing exam reimbursement options for local testing members so stay tuned!
AIA NEXT to LEAD Program
Next to Lead is a new pilot association leadership program. This two-year program is designed to teach essential leadership skills alongside successful, diverse women leaders with decades of experience. It includes a leadership impact capstone - a volunteer leadership opportunity within AIA where you'll serve on a collaborate project developed with a local or state component or with the AIA.
Visit www.aia.org/pages/6315180-next-to-lead
Pass the Mic: Leveraging Our Voices
Grab your seat at NOMA’s PASS THE MIC interactive series, moderated by SFNOMA’s president, Julia Weatherspoon. She’ll be asking the hard questions to our panelist about entering (and re-entering) the Architecture and Design industry for students and emerging professionals.
As apart of NOMA's overall mission, our moderator Julia Weatherspoon is on a mission to create more inclusive spaces. She will be joined by a regional recruiter at Gensler, the Assistant Director at AAU and a recent graduate on the search for their dream job.
Join your NOMA peers and your Gensler co-host, April 28th, and hear the panelists leave it all on the table.
We promise you’ll leave feeling inspired and have a chance to get your questions answered by the pros.
Sign up Here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpd-msqz8oE936Vym0uUaboRx3qCVLoNJz
SF Design Week Awards
2021 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS OPEN March 23rd, 2021
APPLICATIONS CLOSE May 23rd, 2021
*Fees waived for minority owned studios
Not just another design competition. The San Francisco Design Week Awards is an international design competition seeking to encourage thought leadership by supporting designers whose works can contribute towards a positive future for society. San Francisco Design Week is the premier gathering of the world’s most active design community. Entries for the prestigious San Francisco Design Week Awards will be judged by a jury composed of leading Bay Area design professionals; those selected will be showcased and have a permanent presence on the SF Design Week Awards website. For more than 13 years San Francisco Design Week has provided design professionals with the opportunity to grow their networks, enhance their visibility, find investors for future products that are shaping the future and build their careers. We welcome applicants from across the entire range of design industries.
For more info, visit sfdesignweek.org/awards/
Intersectional Environmentalism
NOMA National partners with USGBC on a national level. SFNOMA has partnered with the Northern California Chapter of USGBC on their Intersectional Environmentalism Series.
Upcoming Events are focused on:
Affordable Housing
Energy Access
f you are interested in being a panelist, please email president@sfnoma.net
Reimagining Blackness in Architecture
Reimagining Blackness and Architecture explores the relationship between architecture and Blackness as an identity and a lived experience. You’ll hear directly from Black artists, architects, scholars, and writers who reimagine their surroundings and highlight the ways Black makers have changed the world. You’ll see how architects are working to transform American cities into more equitable places using everything from textiles, hip hop, and fiction to spices and spaceships. And you’ll hear from an international range of artists, who create spaces for their communities and make visible the stories of Black life in their work.
The course is structured around five themes: Imagination, Care, Knowledge, Refusal, and Liberation. Each week, through original films, audio interviews, and readings, you’ll expand your understanding of architecture as a practice that reaches across time, place, and form. Creative activities and prompts for reflection will encourage you to consider your own role in shaping your communities.
Sign up for free at www.coursera.org/learn/blackness-architecture
Othering and Belonging Conference
The Othering & Belonging Conference Summit on Wednesday, April 21 will be a learning space and a caring space, where we can gather to grapple with big questions related to what we face in terms of building a bigger “we,” where we will hold space to honor who and that which we have lost, and where we can together envision and strategize for a present and future world where we care for each other and for our living planet.
The O&B 2021 Summit programming is designed to:
Address the erosion of trust—in institutions, in groups, with each other, and even in public life—and the deep consequences of a politics of breaking, fragmentation, and polarization
Create a space for grieving and memory, including those who have come before us, those who we have lost, and those who have not been properly mourned or honored in our histories, practices, and stories
Align our diverse efforts across sectors, geographies, and disciplines in order to build a truly inclusive and global movement of belonging
April 21st
7:30am - 5:30 pm
Sign up for free here: http://conference.otheringandbelonging.org/summit-2021
Encompass Symposium
As a 2-day virtual event with the mission to increase urban equity and resilience in the communities we serve, the 5th annual “Encompass: Inclusive Architecture” conference will strengthen diversity and inclusion in the AEC professions and in the academic programs that provide the pathway to careers in architecture & design.
April 22nd + April 23th
8:00-11:00 am
Sign up here:
https://www.aialosangeles.org/aiala-events/encompass/
Membership
Please pay or renew your membership dues via the NOMA National website.
https://www.noma.net/members/
Getting Involved!
We are looking to build a robust team! If you are interested in further involvement please contact president@sfnoma.net!
Community Projects Liaison
Project Pipeline Core Leadership Team
Communications Team
Programming + Events Team
Call for Presenters Due April 30th at 9pm PST - Apply here www.noma.net/call-for-presenters/
We're celebrating 50 years of NOMA and are encouraging researchers and designers in the fields of architecture, urbanism, landscape design, and urban planning to submit sessions.
NOMA National Conference 2021 - Detroit Pre Registration
Please Register here!
membership.noma.net/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1435858&group=
Project Pipeline - This Summer!
Project Pipeline Camps will be held virtually at the Regional and Local level this year.
Interested in volunteering for Project Pipeline or being apart of the camp core leadership team - Please email camp@sfnoma.net
50 x 50 Challenge - 50 New Licensed Architects by October 2021
NOMA has challenged our emerging architects to take those next few steps to become licensed this year as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of NOMA. If you plan on becoming a licensed architect this year as a part of our 50x50 Challenge. Please email tiffany.mayhew@noma.net with subject: 50x50 Challenge Accepted.
We need your name, address, state in which you are pursuing licensure. Thank you and good luck!
SFNOMA is also working on providing exam reimbursement options for local testing members so stay tuned!
AIA NEXT to LEAD Program
Next to Lead is a new pilot association leadership program. This two-year program is designed to teach essential leadership skills alongside successful, diverse women leaders with decades of experience. It includes a leadership impact capstone - a volunteer leadership opportunity within AIA where you'll serve on a collaborate project developed with a local or state component or with the AIA.
Visit www.aia.org/pages/6315180-next-to-lead
Pass the Mic: Leveraging Our Voices
Grab your seat at NOMA’s PASS THE MIC interactive series, moderated by SFNOMA’s president, Julia Weatherspoon. She’ll be asking the hard questions to our panelist about entering (and re-entering) the Architecture and Design industry for students and emerging professionals.
As apart of NOMA's overall mission, our moderator Julia Weatherspoon is on a mission to create more inclusive spaces. She will be joined by a regional recruiter at Gensler, the Assistant Director at AAU and a recent graduate on the search for their dream job.
Join your NOMA peers and your Gensler co-host, April 28th, and hear the panelists leave it all on the table.
We promise you’ll leave feeling inspired and have a chance to get your questions answered by the pros.
Sign up Here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpd-msqz8oE936Vym0uUaboRx3qCVLoNJz
SF Design Week Awards
2021 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS OPEN March 23rd, 2021
APPLICATIONS CLOSE May 23rd, 2021
*Fees waived for minority owned studios
Not just another design competition. The San Francisco Design Week Awards is an international design competition seeking to encourage thought leadership by supporting designers whose works can contribute towards a positive future for society. San Francisco Design Week is the premier gathering of the world’s most active design community. Entries for the prestigious San Francisco Design Week Awards will be judged by a jury composed of leading Bay Area design professionals; those selected will be showcased and have a permanent presence on the SF Design Week Awards website. For more than 13 years San Francisco Design Week has provided design professionals with the opportunity to grow their networks, enhance their visibility, find investors for future products that are shaping the future and build their careers. We welcome applicants from across the entire range of design industries.
For more info, visit sfdesignweek.org/awards/
Intersectional Environmentalism
NOMA National partners with USGBC on a national level. SFNOMA has partnered with the Northern California Chapter of USGBC on their Intersectional Environmentalism Series.
Upcoming Events are focused on:
Affordable Housing
Energy Access
f you are interested in being a panelist, please email president@sfnoma.net
Reimagining Blackness in Architecture
Reimagining Blackness and Architecture explores the relationship between architecture and Blackness as an identity and a lived experience. You’ll hear directly from Black artists, architects, scholars, and writers who reimagine their surroundings and highlight the ways Black makers have changed the world. You’ll see how architects are working to transform American cities into more equitable places using everything from textiles, hip hop, and fiction to spices and spaceships. And you’ll hear from an international range of artists, who create spaces for their communities and make visible the stories of Black life in their work.
The course is structured around five themes: Imagination, Care, Knowledge, Refusal, and Liberation. Each week, through original films, audio interviews, and readings, you’ll expand your understanding of architecture as a practice that reaches across time, place, and form. Creative activities and prompts for reflection will encourage you to consider your own role in shaping your communities.
Sign up for free at www.coursera.org/learn/blackness-architecture
Othering and Belonging Conference
The Othering & Belonging Conference Summit on Wednesday, April 21 will be a learning space and a caring space, where we can gather to grapple with big questions related to what we face in terms of building a bigger “we,” where we will hold space to honor who and that which we have lost, and where we can together envision and strategize for a present and future world where we care for each other and for our living planet.
The O&B 2021 Summit programming is designed to:
Address the erosion of trust—in institutions, in groups, with each other, and even in public life—and the deep consequences of a politics of breaking, fragmentation, and polarization
Create a space for grieving and memory, including those who have come before us, those who we have lost, and those who have not been properly mourned or honored in our histories, practices, and stories
Align our diverse efforts across sectors, geographies, and disciplines in order to build a truly inclusive and global movement of belonging
April 21st
7:30am - 5:30 pm
Sign up for free here: http://conference.otheringandbelonging.org/summit-2021
Encompass Symposium
As a 2-day virtual event with the mission to increase urban equity and resilience in the communities we serve, the 5th annual “Encompass: Inclusive Architecture” conference will strengthen diversity and inclusion in the AEC professions and in the academic programs that provide the pathway to careers in architecture & design.
April 22nd + April 23th
8:00-11:00 am
Sign up here:
https://www.aialosangeles.org/aiala-events/encompass/
Membership
Please pay or renew your membership dues via the NOMA National website.
https://www.noma.net/members/
Getting Involved!
We are looking to build a robust team! If you are interested in further involvement please contact president@sfnoma.net!
Community Projects Liaison
Project Pipeline Core Leadership Team
Communications Team
Programming + Events Team