Study Architecture 
ProPEL Resources
An intention of all ACSA competitions is to make students and/or faculty advisors aware that research is a fundamental element of any design solution. Students are encouraged to research material properties, supply chains, and opportunities for circularity.
Through this partnership with ACSA, Grace Farms Foundation will provide students with a set of tools to inform, guide, educate, and engage them in the competition design process. A list of linked resources is below. In addition to these resources, we also have curriculum, presentations, and slides for lectures that will be made freely available.
September 26, 2024
4:00–5:00pm ET
1:00-2:00pm PT
- Design for Freedom Toolkit. This includes:
> Sample Specification – Ethical Design Requirements
> Design for Freedom Material Tracking Schedule
> Design for Freedom Supplier Outreach Letter
> Design for Freedom Supplier Questionnaire - Design for Freedom Report
- Ethical Supply Chain Workshop Insights
- Building Materials and the Climate: Constructing a New Future: A report with the UN Environment Program and the Yale Center for Ecosystems + Architecture
- Design for Freedom Pilot Projects: This includes information on the 12 pilot projects and case studies on completed projects.
Competition Sponsor
Grace Farms Foundation aspires to advance good in the world, providing a peaceful respite and porous platform to experience nature, encounter the arts, pursue justice, foster community, and explore faith.
Grace Farms Foundation’s interdisciplinary humanitarian mission is to pursue peace through five initiatives — nature, arts, justice, community, and faith — and Grace Farms, a SANAA-designed site for convening people across sectors. Our stake in the ground is to end modern slavery and gender-based violence, and to create more grace and peace in our local and global communities.
www.gracefarms.org
The Design for Freedom movement brings industry leaders together to eliminate forced labor in the building materials supply chain, create true market transformation, and build a more equitable future.
Design for Freedom can equip the next generation of students and leaders to include fair labor inputs into their new and existing means, methods, and processes in order to create transparency and a more equitable future.
www.designforfreedom.org/
Administrative Organization
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA)
Leading Architectural Education and Research
ACSA is a nonprofit, membership association founded in 1912 to advance the quality of architectural education. The school membership in ACSA has grown from 10 charter members to over 250 schools in several membership categories. These include full membership for all accredited programs in the United States and government-sanctioned schools in Canada, candidate membership for schools seeking accreditation, and affiliate membership for schools for two-year and international programs. Through these schools, over 5,000 architecture faculty members are represented. In addition, over 500 supporting members composed of architecture firms, product associations and individuals add to the breadth of interest and support of ACSA goals. ACSA provides a major forum for ideas on the leading edge of architectural thought. Issues that will affect the architectural profession in the future are being examined today in ACSA member schools.
Competition Organizers & Sponsors
Questions
Edwin Hernández-Ventura
Programs Coordinator
ehernandez@acsa-arch.org
202.785.2324
Eric W. Ellis
Senior Director of Operations and Programs
202-785-2324
eellis@acsa-arch.org
