"The Future of Work" What does it mean? How does it apply to you as a professional and as a person? Join us for an exploration into the answers to these questions at the 2024 conference.
This event will bring together leading experts, visionary architects, and industry pioneers to examine how the future of work is reshaping what we do and how we work
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As AI and automation dramatically change the way we work, we need to dig a little deeper into the choices we’re making about all these innovations. Will we come to regret embracing some of these fancy predictions about the new and improved future for design, architecture and planning? In this fascinating and fun keynote presentation, David Zach sparks the day’s conversations on how our designs today can build a more interesting future.
Pending 1 AIA elective lu
Hawk is a nationally recognized specialist in design of buildings with significant, sustainable interior environments. His work often includes the adaptation and rehabilitation of existing buildings, and his design philosophy promotes an architecture that elevates experience, is stimulating to the senses, and engaging for users.
Christen Sundquist is the Historic Preservation Planner for the city of Elgin for the past 10 years. She oversees approximately 1,800 structures within Elgin’s five historic districts and 22 locally designated landmarks. She is also the staff liaison to the Elgin Heritage Commission and the Design Review Subcommittee and manages the city’s Historic Rehabilitation Grant program. Christen is a certified planner and has a Bachelors in Architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Masters in Historic Preservation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Tour and Presentation at the Elgin Math and Science Academy Charter School [Sold Out]
TOUR IS NOW SOLD OUT. Join us for a tour and presentation, followed by a light reception at EMSA, an AIA Illinois' 2023 Honor Award winner. The tour and presentation will be lead by Wheeler Kearns. Pending CE approvalPresented in partnership with the Elgin Math and Science AcademyApproved for 1.5 AIA CE lu | HSWParking is available around the Silo located on the Campus. Photography: Tom Harris Architectural Photography (c) https://wkarch.com/100005624/elgin-math-science-academy-receives-an-aia-illinois-honor-award/
Thursday 10/24 Opening Keynote with David Zach - Designs on the Future 9:00 am
1. What do you do that either can’t be automated, or still shouldn’t be automated? And, do you know how to defend your choices on how we can best use these tools? 2. How do you become more “divergently curious” so that instead of just thinking outside the box, you learn to think into other boxes – and ask and answer this key question: What else do I need to be curious about? 3. Why can talking with more strangers make the future more safe and more productive? Why will those conversations help to ensure that the future is a little less artificial and a lot more intelligent? In this fascinating and fun keynote presentation, David Zach sparks the day’s conversations on how our designs today can build a more interesting future. Approved for 1 AIA lu | elective
Morning Breakout Option 1 - 10:15 - 11:15 am - Wind Design Considerations for the Central U.S.: Reducing the impact of disasters with Rose Grant, AIA THIS SESSION IS BEING OFFERED TWICE
This training will cover multiple HSW topics through educating attendees about proper wind design as an essential first step for ensuring resilience and public safety in the built environment, providing insights into the importance of proper load path design to ensure structural integrity, and emphasizing the way wind impacts buildings and how designing for it is critical to protecting the health, safety and welfare of the occupants.This course will meet the new MCE requirement for license renewal in IL. Approved for 1 AIA lu | HSW
Morning Breakout Option 2 - 10:15 - 11:15 am -Social Media Content Creation for Architects with Scott Conwell, FAIA
Before you craft your content, make sure your goals are clearly defined: What to you hope to accomplish by posting on social media? Direct traffic to your website? Generate new clients? Build a broad audience? Build a narrow customer base? Your social media goals will help define your online brand and this course will help you accomplish those goals. Approval for one AIA lu | elective
Lunch Session - 11:15 - 12:30 pm - 100 and Looking Good: Revitalization and Adaptive Reuse of Elgin’s Historic Landmarks - 11:15-12:30 pm
Christen Sundquist, City of Elgin’s Historic Preservation Planner for a presentation on significant historic landmarks, their revitalization and adaptive reuse and how landmarking can be a useful and pivotal development tool.Approved for 1 AIA lu | elective
Sponsor Expo - 12:30 - 1:30 pm Pre-Function area
After the lunch session, plan to spend time with our generous sponsors
Afternoon Breakout Option 1 - 1:30-2:30 pm – The Future of the Built Workplace with Melissa Dotson, President/Owner of Rieke
The session will speak to the culture within the workplace and how it’s changed over time, especially pre-and-post-covid; the importance of creating collaborative spaces to get people back to bonding with the company and how remote work can break those ties. It will focus on communication and workflow in the physical space, how they can foster partnerships, and attract/retain people in part due to the physical environment.Approved for 1 AIA lu | elective
Afternoon Breakout Option 2 - 1:30-2:30 pm - Being Archenough with Laurie Hoffman, AIA
What does the architecture profession look like today, and how will it continue to change as future generations embrace it? Every firm is unique, and each path to licensure varies. Our education, both in school and in the workplace, equips us to adapt to diverse roles which makes the possibilities within our careers endless. After working in traditional firms for over 10 years, I decided to maintain my license but switch to the Owner’s side of the table, some people referred to this as switching over to the dark side, but I view it as a new opportunity to advocate for the profession while advancing my own. At the end of the day, whatever Architect you become is Archenough, and that’s ok. Approved for 1 AIA lu | elective
Afternoon Breakout Option 3 - 2:45-3:45 pm -Doing it All: Balancing Work and Parenthood Post-Covid with Mercedes E. & Ian Miley, AIA
Parents with children under 18 comprise 40% of the labor force and 92% of families with minor children have at least one parent employed full-time. 2/3rds of all families feature two working parents. The labor participation rate for mothers has increased dramatically since the feminist movement mainstreamed females holding a job. In a single generation, we’ve gone from women not being able to independently take out a business loan to 42% of all businesses are majority-owned by women. Yet, our kids and families remain hidden. AIA CE Approval Pending
Afternoon Breakout Option 4 - 2:45-3:45 pm - Wind Design Considerations for the Central U.S.: Reducing the impact of disasters with Rose Grant, AIA
This training will cover multiple HSW topics through educating attendees about proper wind design as an essential first step for ensuring resilience and public safety in the built environment, providing insights into the importance of proper load path design to ensure structural integrity, and emphasizing the way wind impacts buildings and how designing for it is critical to protecting the health, safety and welfare of the occupants.This course will meet the new MCE requirement for license renewal in IL. Approved 1 AIA lu | HSW
Closing Keynote: Leading in a Hyper-fast Future; the future of architecture and design - Tim Hawk, FAIA - 4:00 - 5:00 pm
The future of architectural practice will be informed by the break-neck pace of technological development, and the architect of the twenty-first century has the opportunity to step into an industry-leading position. Over the past twenty-five years, there is growth in the use of prefabricated construction solutions, yet general contractors have less skill in planning and integration. If the architect can recognize the demand for this type of leadership, the profession stands poised to dramatically reposition the role of the architect, increase prosperity, and solve societal needs.This presentation will include topics that will enrich the architects who participate.Submitted for AIA Approval
Optional - EP and Student Meet Up - 5:00 - 6:00 pm
Did you recently attend AIAspire or the EP Summit in Springfield and want to reconnect? Are you a local EP or architecture student and want to network? Join this group for a quick meet-and-greet. Skyview Room 8th floor -Holiday Inn Elgin
Closing Reception - AIA IL Honor Awards - 6:30 - 8:00 pm
Join your friends and colleagues for a reception to recognize the deserving 2024 Honor Award recipients.Social - 6:30 - 7:00 pm followed by the awards presentation.
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