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Blog-off series brought architectural bloggers and design professionals together March 25–31 to discuss how design connects.

Design has the power to inform and connect our lives in so many ways. It quietly exists in our buildings, our products, our landscapes, and our environments. From the first step in understanding a project’s scope to the last step in making the project a viable reality, the practice of architecture is about making connections that help build a better future.

With the theme, Design Connects, the AIA 2012 National Convention will explore and celebrate how architecture connects us all. To jumpstart the conversation around the convention theme, several bloggers started online conversations on how design connects their lives:

• Tabitha Ponte, Assoc. AIA, (Inter)Connect
• Brinn Miracle, The Power of Design
• Mike Davis, FAIA, Does Design Connect?
• Bruce Dahlquist, Making the Connections: More Than Just a Pile of Bricks
• Tara Imani, AIA, Design Connects When We Connect
• Christopher Whitcomb (Cannon Design), Design Connects
• Carolyn Thomas, Memory of Place
• Marcus Taylor, Ten Rules of Great Architectural Design
• Jamie Crawley, AIA, (Hamilton & Associates), I Seem To Be a Verb . . . Let’s Connect
• Deborah Fennick (Fennick McCredie), Design Connects Youth to the Community, Their Future
• Andrew Hawkins (Hawkins Architecture), Design-Connected Forces
• Bob Fox (Fox Populi Architects), Design is Paramount in the Workplace
• Arch Daily, The Multiplier Effect: How Design and the Internet Connect
• Universal Design, Universal Design Connects People, Places and Ideas
• Ginny Powell, Admiring Architecture
• Jamie Carracher, How I Fell in Love with Design