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Sustainable design. Livable communities. Affordable housing. Health care reform.
For 150 years the AIA and its members have advocated for policies and programs that benefit the built environment and the practice of architecture. This coming election year is no different as the AIA launches a positive, proactive issues agenda that speaks to the values all architects hold dear.
The 2008 election will be one of the most hotly contested in years. It marks the first time in nearly a century that neither a sitting president nor vice president is running. And with such a slim margin in both the House and Senate, each political party has a lot to gain...or lose. This creates a unique opportunity for the AIA and its 83,500 members to play an active role in advocating for the profession at the national level and raise the profile of our issues in the coming debate.
DesignVote08 is a nonpartisan program to get architects and their supporters front and center in the 2008 campaign. Supporting the AIA's strategic goal of promoting citizen architects and civic engagement, and coordinating with AIA components at the national, state, and local levels, DesignVote08 will empower AIA members to:
- Place the AIA's public policies and issues before the presidential candidates and political parties
- Organize and cosponsor candidate forums in their home states
- Raise the AIA's visibility at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions
- Volunteer for presidential and Senate campaigns
. . . and more. This is your chance to help shape the election and the national agenda on the built environment for years to come.
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Learn more about the issues that the AIA is pursuing in the 2008 election by viewing the DesignVote08 Agenda for our Nation's Communities.
Sign up for The DesignVote Note, an insider's newsletter on the races with tips on how you can get involved, by sending an e-mail to designvote@aia.org with the subject line, Sign Me Up.