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James Suehiro: There are schools, institutions that are well-known and great in research. The AIA has a number of researchers, but we also need to remember that the firms are resources to the AIA. You can make a parallel to the firms doing research and universities doing research. If we have information, we need to get that out there for everybody because not everyone is going to be hospitable about marching out ahead. There are a lot of people and firms that want to move carefully. And that’s a good thing because that’s the balance. If you don’t get the information out there, you don’t get the firms sharing information, sharing the research out there, and then none of this is going to work. So, it’s this whole partnership and, I guess, we’ve talked about why not have the AIA being for that? Why not? Michael R. Broshar, FAIA: Thank you. This is a good opportunity for me to bring out something that the AIA is doing this year that begins to connect some of these dots. This summer, we will be introducing a Web-based tool for information sharing. The working title is eKnowledge, but that’s not what it will be called. We are hoping to make connections, initially, with five universities. We want to grow that, so that we can identify research and share that with members. We’re also making connections with firms, so that firms and individual architects can load information onto their sites. So, it begins to identify the body of knowledge that exists and becomes a sharing mechanism, and we hope it becomes a robust tool for sharing knowledge, research across practice and across the academy. Look for that. We hope that it’s going to be very successful. |
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