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Design for Aging Review 9 Award Winner
Mission Creek Community, San Francisco, CA
Architect: HKIT Architects

The mission of the AIA Design for Aging Knowledge Community (DFA) is to foster design innovation and disseminate knowledge necessary to enhance the built environment and quality of life for an aging society. This includes relevant research on characteristics, planning, and costs associated with innovative design for aging. In addition, DFA provides outcome data on the value of these design solutions and environments.

Join the Design for Aging Knowledge Community by updating your AIA member profile.

Long-Term Living 2010 Webinar Series
Call for Presentations

The 2010 Long-Term Living Webinar Series will be comprised of 8, 60-minute webinars offering valuable content to architects, developers, owners, facilities managers, design professionals, product manufacturers, and government officials and each will explore new ideas for creating appealing and supportive places for people as they age. Presentation proposals are now being sought for this series. To submit a presentation proposal for this series, please visit — Long Term Living 2010 Submissions.

Deadline for presentations is October 15, 2010 5 p.m. ET.

The Long-Term Living Webinar Series is founded and produced by Vendome Group LLC (publishers of Long Term Living magazine), The Center for Health Design, SAGE, the AIA Design for Aging Knowledge Community and the American Society of Interior Designers.

  

    Upcoming Events

    Environments for Aging 2010
    San Diego | March 21-23, 2010

    Awards

    Design for Aging Review (DFAR)
    This biannual competition and publication showcases facilities that improve quality of life for the aging while exhibiting innovation in their design and execution. The DFAR 10 submission deadline has passed.

    Resources

    DFAR 9: Data Mining Report
    Offers glimpse at best practices and emerging ideas in senior living design. Unlike conventional research, data mining does not impose the structure of pre-determined questions, but rather elicits questions from the data that may offer insights into underlying patterns and evolving trends.

    Blueprints for Living
    The official newsletter for the DFA.

    AIA Speakers Registry

    Podcasts