Newsletter | Mar/Apr 2017


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Member Updates

Hourig Ayanyan

A little birdie told us that OWA member Hourig Ayanyan recently became a licensed architect! She took her exams while working full time, being a wife and mother of a 4 year old boy. Nice work and congratulations!

Galen Cranz

Professional activity for the year 2016-17

I am writing from a workshop at Harvard on Anthropological Design April 3-4, 2017, where I presented my 44 years of teaching ethnography to architecture students. OWA members have already heard about this approach when I presented to OWA last April 2016 in connection with the recent publication of "Ethnography for Designers" (Routledge, 2016). June 2016 was super busy: I was a keynote speaker in Lisbon, Portugal for the European Association of Architecture Educators on the theme of "Naturalizing the City;" I spoke about the hazards of sitting on chairs to the conference of "Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality" in New Harmony, Indiana; and I presented a thesis about taste in urban design at the University of Florence conference on Urbanism. Next, In October 2016 I taught research design to PhD students at NCSU. In January 2017 I was invited to Florida International University in Miami to contribute to a design charrette on creating a new park with body conscious amenities under their elevated Metroline. In March 2017 Sedentary Behavior and Health: Concepts, Assessments, and Interventions, Zhu and Owen, Eds (Human Kinetics) was published based on the first conference on sedentary behavior oat the University of Illinois in October 2015 including my chapter 4 "Rethinking the Chair and Sitting."


Welcome New Members!

Jeanne Alnot
Charlotte Hofstetter
John R. Miller
Matt Staublin


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