American Institute of Architecture Knowledge Scholar Application

In November 2011, I had the opportunity to help apply my Master's of Information Managment and Systems degree with my Architecture background when chosen to be a Knowledge Scholar for the American Insitute of Architects Committee on Design, "Crafting the Future" conference in Japan and Tokyo. I proposed working with Architects and designers share conference information through hand sketches and asking the question "How is [it] done well?" We later scanned these sketches into a blog to share our experiences with the rest of our 80,000 person membership. This proposal choreographed an experience for people of various technology proficiencies as well as addressing concepts of privacy, constructability/usability, materiality, modularity and flexibility.

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1. 2011 Knowledge Scholarship Application Table of Contents Cover page / Application sidebar: Table of Contents ......................................... 1 Introduction - How is [IT] done well?/ sidebar: Privacy ........................................................ 2 How will knowledge be captured beforehand? / sidebar: Novices ........................................................ 3 How will knowledge be captured onsite - during? / sidebar: Constructability / Usability ......................... 4 How will knowledge be delivered afterwards? / sidebar: Materiality ................................................... 5 What specific skills do you bring? sidebar: Modularity ................................................... 6 Resume....................................................................... 7 Budget / sidebar: Flexibility .................................................... 8 In Summary / sidebar: Proposal ..................................................... 9 Glossary / Underlying Conceptual Framework / sidebar: Professional References ............................ 10
2. Introduction - How is [IT] done well? Thank you for your time to review my 2011 Knowledge Scholarship application. My proposal for Crafting the Future Conference is to ask the simple question -- “How is [IT] Done Well?” Our AIA Arizona Associate group had a similar program, helped to creatively connect people, ideas, and discussions. To have this one question be asked over and over in difference contexts, by different speakers, at different sites, creates an opening for our social media team to come in and capture much content. “How is [Japanese Modern Detailing] Done Well?” Photographs, sketches, ideas, discussion can be captured on bus rides, for example, Kengo Kuma’s Suntory Museum of Art. Conference attendees can fill out “How is [IT] Done Well?” answers by hand and submit to AIA staff to scan in, tag and categorize. Smart phone users can snap pictures and send content to an email address that will automatically post and tie to other already existing AIA National Social Media channels. More tech savvy attendees can post tips and find friends or network with other AIA members using location-based platforms. Perhaps Tweet-ups or a Unconference is suddenly created to discuss “How is [the Urban Planning of Takayama] done well?” Spurred to participate in this discussion, AIA members only familiar with hand drafting will want to know how to get “in” on the discussions of the Poetics of Space. Once this question and social media theme is explicitly communicated to the Crafting the Future Conference, it allows an opening to help AIA disseminate and engage people in an on-line public sphere. Tour buses are limited to 30-40 people. Not everyone can be part of every experience. Using social media tools and computer-mediated communications can extend the discussions allowing others not able to attend the conference to be influenced on the discussions such as “How is [tsunami rebuilding] done well?“ I am passionate to help “tune” and orchestrate large groups to collaboratively and collectively use tools to participate in knowledge capture, research, national dialogues, and networking. I liked working with the AIA in the past as they have embraced new technologies as a way for members to connect and keep the profession of Architecture alive. My big idea is to use the existing social media channels the AIA National has set up (i.e. Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, FourSquare, YouTube, Flickr) and create a “conference wrapper” that will push content to these social media channels. This “conference wrapper” can be made with existing free tools such as Posterous, where there is minimum development and customization needed. The novelty of the “conference wrapper” idea lies in allowing content to be pushed via email rather than forcing people to use a specific platform (i.e: laptops, netbooks, smart phones, tablets, mobile applications, etc.) to engage. Everyone will be able to share in the conference experience and share architectural knowledge with others. This proposal lays out standard social media ways to engage (ie: hashtags, unconferences, blogs, microblogging). I know I can build the “conference wrapper” to allow for a gradient of content creation and contribution regardless of a participant’s computing literacy. As a Master’s student of Information Management Systems at UC Berkeley’s School of Information has helped to define from a sociology, legal, and technology perspective how Social Media can be done well. See the grey sidebars for more information on the thought process. Since terms could be unfamiliar and as we are in the midst of a technology revolution, I have also added a glossary on page 10. Look for words in This Font and Color to find further definitions. Each social media experience and conference knowledge capture is different because this cannot be done alone. I hope my proposal sets out a framework for future experimenting especially when more people adopt platforms to allow engagement into a digitized public sphere for meaningful discussions. As a few of my AIA Associate friends also applying for this scholarship have already tried connecting and possibly - other 2011 scholarship winners can help share resources, work, lessons-learned, this year and subsequent years. Thanks, Leslie Tom, Associate AIA, UC Berkeley School of Information, MIMS 2012 Candidate Twitter: @les733 Google+: https://plus.google.com/116360868649991897408 Foursquare: https://foursquare.com/les733 Tumblr: http://les733.tumblr.com/ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/les733 Wikipedia Editor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Les733 UC Berkeley ISchool: www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/students/leslietom Privacy How is [privacy] done well? AIA as a national organization is one of the leading groups to use social media technologies. However, many 3rd party applications do not provide safe measures for security and privacy. Many of the more new creative 3rd party applications do things like sell a person’s location data to marketers or they may not have safe practices for storing sensitive data. Many people do not read the fine print of the Terms and Conditions when downloading applications. I assume many social media illiterate architects may trust the AIA for direction, especially with social media recommendations and practices. There are many civil liberty organizations such as the EFF (Electronic Foundations Frontier) that are helping to create a privacy standard. There are also other movements such as Privacy by Design, that help protect the consumer and allow them to know when certain pieces of information is being shared with these social media sites. Privacy is a major issue and helps to define the public sphere. As in architecture, we need to carve out public and private spaces on-line. “Conference Wrapper”.
3. How will knowledge be captured beforehand? My proposal will consist of several proposals for work that can be prepared beforehand; which will set up the framework for conference participation. Novices How do [novices learn social media] well? A way to appeal to adoption is to create a meaningful dialogue and desire to learn. There must be a reason why practicing architects, historians, preservationists, and academics would want to engage outside their comfort zone. To get everyone speaking the same language, I propose a presentation to help the novice understand the parallels between architecture, “Crafting the Future” with an on-line space and presence. This presentation would also layout the social media theme, or “How is [IT] Done Well” and paint pictures of possibilities for conference attendees. Rather than forcing people to adopt new Social Media platforms, I propose carefully crafting systematically designed experiences (such as location-based meetups) that can help create a critical mass of people to cause curiosity. Architects share a language of the poetics of space and once this dialogue has started, on-line, the AIA becomes a great network of people that span wide ranges in experience, knowledge and across several generations. By bringing engaging questions and a curious energy, there are ways to help novices share the Crafting the Future conference throughout the many tours, and speakers such as Fumihiko Maki, Hon. FAIA, 2011 AIA Gold Medal, and Kengo Kuma, Hon. FAIA. Little Time / Budget Medium Time / Budget Unlimited Time / Budget Meaningful Dialogues: How will directions for engagement get out? - 5 minute conference presentation on “How is [IT] Done Well” - Hashtag is created for Twitter. Produce a video to play at conference describing theme of “How is [IT] Done Well” Social Media experts can be hired to go around interviewing people and tutoring people on social media channels. Website Tools: Things to Set - up - Create “Conference Wrapper” - Posterous website. Run tests. - Create URI shorteners Create “Conference Wrapper” and tie into other AIA National social media channels. Develop and design a single website source to have multiple conference feeds organize knowledge and push information. Networking Tools: People connecting with each other Create conference/lecture rooms and checkin using Foursquare. Provide directions and staff help on how to use FourSquare or other location aware applications. Organize AIA FourSquare meetups Knowledge Content Tools: Systems to help capture knowledge Print out papers that explain “How is [IT] Done Well” and allow conference attendees to sketch and submit. Hire videographers to help create video content recording clips of people’s discussions for “How is [IT] Done Well.” Hire videographers to edit a piece on how AIA members are starting to use social media technologies to engage in discussions. Encouragement to Participate: Create award categories for gift certificates. So people can be the first person to tweet, blog, etc. Announce on Social Media channel Set up on-line polls to allow for Crowdsourced awards. Plan for AIA Staff / Social Media experts can help to give out gifts when they see conference attendees engaging. Expenses: Time, Resources, Functions Low time, low resources, minimal functions. Enough resources to commission deliverables, average functions. Extravagant resources that will help to encourage enagement. MUST HAVE: Please finance and/or commission. SHOULD HAVE: Nice to have. COULD HAVE: Can live without
4. How will knowledge be captured onsite-during? Constructability / Usability Social Media - Novice Social Media - Average User Tech Savvy Meaningful Dialogues: Engagement at Conference Use paper to draw a sketch and submit to AIA Staff. Upload video interview; linked data is able to be shared. Create a Mashup and start a dialogue about an interesting topic. Website Tools: Things to Use at Conference E-mail content to “Conference Wrapper.” Use Hashtags, live blog, upload photographs to Flickr to share content 3rd Party applications that provide a URI or API to allow for content reuse or linked data. Networking Tools: People connecting with each other Happy hours. Tours. Bus rides Check into FourSquare or other Location-based Services and find peers. Hidden happy hours. Ability to leave architectural tips from building tours, post pictures with geo-location. Knowledge Content Tools: Systems to help capture knowledge P2P interviews with paper, blog, video, etc. Social Media Team creates Twitter groups so people can help be connected. Tag posts to populate tag clouds Encouragement to Participate: Win a button if you add content. Allow for on-line voting through Crowdsourcing. AIA Staff / Social Media experts can help to give out gifts when they see conference attendees engaging. Expenses: Time, Resources, Functions Low time, low resources, minimal functions. Enough resources to commission deliverables, average functions. Extravagant resources that will help to encourage engagement. How is [Constructability / Usability] done well? When we design certain buildings, and we’re unfamiliar with the builder we design details in such a way where the doesn’t need to be precision. Two different materials will not meet with a 90 degree edge, but rather one material will slip past a dissimilar material to allow for slight variances. The same concept of constructability can be applied to this Knowledge capturing scholarship application. We don’t know what skills our Social Media team may bring to the table. We don’t know what sort attitude our conference attendees may hold on to. There needs to be room for flexibility and quick turns to engage and allow detailed connections to emerge. We can also design ourselves into a corner if we promote one type of technology or device. There is much competition for the adoption of technology platforms: (mobile devices \ tablets (Android, iPhones, iPads, etc.), websites (Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, Foursquare, etc). What is helpful one day, may be out-shined by a more useful tool the next day. There is a constant re-balancing of understanding the social media team and audience. See What Sticks Content is King
5. How will knowledge be delivered afterwards? Knowledge will be delivered based on audience participation. Each conference will be an experiment until a critical mass is reached for participatory engagement. Materiality How is [Consideration of Materiality] done well? From having earned a bachelor’s of architecture, I have come to realize, that my fellow architectural peers and I relate to the world in a material way. My Information School professor describes architecture as the specification of components and the boundaries of a system. Likewise, if we look at Social Media as a material, we can apply the following physical actions to this new medium: assembling, organizing, breaking, and experimenting with where the boundaries, edges, and structural principles are located. In the Media world, it is often said that “content is king.” By having reputable AIA members that are engaged in relevant discussions throughout traveling in Japan, and having most content provided in a RESTful Architectural way, there are many opportunities to re-use, re-purpose, re-organize and re-visualize the information to be something new. Perhaps after two conferences, the Committee on Design sees threads that want to reference. The content collected is the start of a corpus, that Information Scientists can help reveal meaning. MUST HAVE: Please finance and/or commission. SHOULD HAVE: Nice to have. COULD HAVE: Can live without Low Resources Medium Resources High Resources Meaningful Dialogues: Engagement at Conference Re-Tweet interesting links out each conference day. Hire journalist team to write professional blogs All the content from the conference can be re-purposed into AIA articles, videos, etc. Website Tools: Things to Use at Conference Highlight key comments, posts, etc. within AIA National’s newsletters. Easy to connect because everything has a URI. Have AIA staff help to tag all content. Hire Information Scientists or Computer Scientists to bring meaning and work with Social Media API’s. Networking Tools: People connecting with each other -- -- -- Knowledge Content Tools: Systems to help capture knowledge -- -- Hire videographers to edit a piece on how AIA members are starting to use social media technologies to engage in discussions. Encouragement to Participate: Provide gifts / discounts to people who blog about experience post- conference. -- -- Expenses: Time, Resources, Functions Low time, low resources, minimal functions. Enough resources to commission deliverables, average production. Extravagant resources that will be professionally produced.
6. What specific skills do you bring? A few of the Social Media / User needs analysis I have come from experience. Below are 3 major projects I have helped lead. • Urban Water Studio - Arch 299: The Urban Water Studio was an independent study I was involved with during my first summer and fall semester at UC Berkeley. Several College of Environmental Design (CED) Master students and I worked with a professor, Mark Anderson (see Professional References page 10) to gain support to hold a multi-disciplinary class to help Master Plan for Blue Oak Ranch Reserves, a UC Berkeley 5,000 acre reserve. We called this project “IdeaBerkeley” for the opportunity to extend this effort through the UC system. I worked with the CED students to change their workflows to be more collaborative following principles of RESTful Architecture. Experience: • Helped to gain signatures to petition for class using on-line petition form. • Helped to contribute to group flickr account • Set up @IdeaBerkeley twitter account • Helped to capture information with Google Blog, implementing tagging features • Helped to draw and storyboard @IdeaBerkeley presentations; orchestrated multi-user group in Prezzi • Set up dropbox to share files • Modeled Blue Oak Ranch Reserve barn into Revit v.2010 • Met with AutoCAD people and organized presentation in class for technology analysis • Set up lifeyo website to allow others to contribute without knowing HTML and to share final products with others. Social Media / Organizing Efforts: (chronological - oldest to newest) • AIA Arizona - January 2009 – April 2010 ◦ Participated in Communications Committee ◦ Helped to start/promote and did the following: ▪ AIA Associate Facebook group: (grew from 0 - 150 people) <http://www.facebook.com/groups/74845547756/> ▪ AIA Associate Twitter <https://twitter.com/#!/AIAAZAssoc> ▪ AIA Associate Tumblr <http://aiaazassoc.tumblr.com/> ▪ AIA Associate Wiki: <http://aiaarizonaep.pbworks.com/w/page/1577263/FrontPage> To help keep track of how things are organized, lessons learned, help to archive work. ▪ Organized Arizona AIA Associate conversations: How is [IT] done Well - where we would invite people to ask them the question - i.e: How do they do [practice] well? We practiced tele-conferencing from AIA Phoenix to AIA Tucson. • Be2Camp - “Web 2.0 meets the Built Environment (Group from London)” - Twitter, Unconference ◦ 15 May 2009 - Tweeted and participated remotely in Be2camp North; held in Liverpool, organised by Paul, Martin and Adrian McEwen, Be2Camp’s second unconference focused on Web 2.0 and the built environment. ◦ June 16, 2009 - Organized Be2Party in collaboration with Southern Arizona Revit User Group (SARUG) meeting ◦ 7-8 October 2009 - Tweeted and participated in Be2camp@WorkingBuildings2009, organised by Paul and Martin, was run over two days at London's Olympia exhibition halls, in parallel with UBM's three WorkingBuildings shows: Energy Solutions Expo, M&E: The Building Services Event, and Total Workplace Management: the FM & Estates Event. • Taste of Asia Festival - lead team of 5 people to do Social Media Outreach for inaugural food festival - reaching 6,000 people • Wikipedia - ◦ January 15, 2010 - volunteered with Wikipedia's Unconference 10th anniversary in San Francisco ◦ June 26, 2011 - participated and helped to connect Berkeley ISchool group to participate in Wikipedia's 1st ever Wicnic (Wikipedia Picnic in San Francisco) • InfoCamp ◦ March 2009 - participated in UC Berkeley's Infocamp at the School of Information ◦ March 2010 - volunteered on content committee for UC Berkeley's Infocamp - at the School of Information • Asian Pacific Island Heritage Preservation Steering Committee - under National Trust Historic Preservation ◦ June 2010 - current - Help to be Collaborative Communications chair on Steering Committee ◦ Helped to start / promote the following: Twitter, Wiki, Website Modularity My proposal brings to the table the idea of design social media tools with modularity. How can parts and pieces can be implemented and designed through the many variables of societal norms or what is acceptable in the Architecture world. Below are a few examples of the modular components I have created and helped groups to adopt - through much help with social media advocates. A Tumblr blog Leslie created and maintained for AIA Arizona Associates: Showing: How is [IT] Done Well blog post, and Facebook invite with attendees
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8. Budget Low Budget Medium Budget High Budget Dream Budget Bear Minimums: see sidebar: this page [$6180] [$6180] [$6180] [$6180] Supply Expenses: Staff Help and responsibilities [$1,000] For Leslie’s time / or 20 hours of consultant time to direct Posterous development. Coordinate with AIA. [$3,000] Low Budget + 60 hours to implement more directions / tools for novice social media users. [$8,000] Medium Budget + hire 2 videographer / photographer for 100 hours and editing work. [$15,000] Hire professional media company to produce all video / audio content. Outside Commissioned Help [$1000] - 25 hours of staff time to help create content and direction prior, help to manage content during conference, help repurpose content afterwards. [$3,000] (60 hours) AIA or Leslie hires out people to help implement social media tools. [$15,000] AIA hires Social Media team and production team which we can direct. [$15,000] AIA commissions conference application to be developed Encouragement to participate [$600] - Part I, Part II - gift certificates for engagement, buttons for novice users. [$3000] - low budget + free conference passes for next year. [$5,000] Medium Budget + daily rewards so social media in at forefront [$7,000] give gifts out everyday - so social media effort is at the forefront. Communication [$300] printing - on all conference fliers - hashtag [$500] printing - on all conference fliers - hashtags [$1,000] - have banners, stickers with hashtag [$10,000] - hire someone to create “How is [IT] Done Well” video On-site Resources: Social Media booths - colorful [$3,000] 1-2 “Social Media” spots -- secure table with laptops / tablets. // [$2000] 40 hours of AIA staff time / set-up, help for attendees (2.5 hour per day for 2 AIA staff) [$6,000] 3-4 “Social Media” spots -- secure table with laptops / tablets. // [$4000] 80 hours of AIA staff time / set-up, help for attendees (2.5 hours per day for 4 AIA staff) [$5,000] AIA staff / social media team walks around with 6 iPads and lets people add content. // [$6,000] 120 hours of AIA staff time (3 hours per day for 6 people) [$15,000] - hire professional group to take care of helping to run social media. Total Budget Deliverables [$14,080] +/- (no video) [$21,680] (more content collected) [$40,180] (high quality video) [$68,180] (professionally done) Flexibility As with any design project, there needs to be budget with time, finances and resources. I have designed my proposal to be flexible with the parts and pieces that are implemented. My numbers are conceptual suggestions for anything from a low budget production to a professionally produced production. I did not research into prices in Japan or what in-house skills AIA staff may offer, or resources they may have. I can certainly help draw up conceptual drawings and guide any consultants. I also did not look into the size of the conference, which I assume would also impact prices. * AIA staff time and commissioned work is calculated at $50 / hour. Bear Minimums: Total: $6180 • Cost of Conference: Part I + 2 + tour: $2880 • Travel expenses: Airfare,  shu,le,  taxis:  $1500            11/11,  SFO-­‐NRT            11/20,  KMQ-­‐NRT            11/20,  NRT-­‐SFO •Room and Board: Conference Hotel $1800 Supply Expense: • Crowd-sourced questions for
9. In Summary What does this mean? The innovation in this proposal is to cross the Socio-technical Gap and allow as many conference goers be able to contribute content as possible. I lay out so many options because these are tools, boundaries, and systems that can be designed, created, and implemented. All are dependent on time, resources, if there is a social media team that can help communicate the same goals. The major innovation is in allowing novice social media users a way to easily add content through a system I have named the “Conference wrapper.” There are free sites like Posterous (developed: May 2008) that require minimal additional development and can easily be skinned in the AIA National’s graphic standards. This “conference wrapper” wraps all the other AIA National social media channels and can push content into them. In conclusion, this proposal focuses on starting with the simple idea of asking the question: “How is [IT] Done Well” and weaving social media tools as a way to help conference attendees engage with each other, add to a national dialogue, network and even remain engaged on the bus and train rides. My goal is to gather as much content as possible from this 6 day Crafting the Future Conference, which provides a corpus of data for anyone that would like to create blogs, write articles or conduct research. I have been involved in Unconferences and Meet-ups that emerge and can possibly show architects new ways to quickly collect information, repurpose and organize it. The more AIA members that engage in this public on-line sphere, the more of a service each member does for the Architecture community. I see this as my calling to help organize architecture knowledge so subsequent generations can experience the work we have done in the visible and invisible frameworks of Crafting the Future. Proposal There are several deliverables I would feel responsible to orchestrate. All of my proposal is negotiable. If there are other people interested in developing a social media plan, we can collaborate beforehand! This proposal is sensitive to issues of privacy, constructibility, computing literacy and the ability to reuse some of this work, to name a few. WHY: Communications: • 5-7 min presentation at Introductory Keynote November 13th in Tokyo - to define computer mediated communications and participatory tools (which ones will be promoted at conference) to layout a context as to the pros/cons of why Architects should participate in the new online Public Sphere. WHEN: Systematic Engagement: BEFOREHAND • Develop and test “Conference-Wrapper” • Create or commission others to create bear minimums for “How is [IT] Done Well” concept. DURING • There will be much time on train, bus to Nagoya, to encourage people to interview each other, share photos, content. • Give out engagement awards. • Re-tweet, live-blog, create meet-ups. AFTERWARDS • Content can be repurposed. HOW: What will stick? • Would like to prepare the following - to be printed. • #Hashtags • Foursquare checkins - to find other AIA architects when visiting Japanese sites. Encourage posting tips at various site locations. • Last night HappyHour and Wikipedia Meetup AIA TOOLS + “Conference Wrapper” Proposal email AIA Twitter AIA Flickr AIA FourSquare “Conference Wrapper” Twitter Flickr FourSquare Novice: content pushed “Conference Wrapper” automatically pushes to AIA National’s Social Media Channels Tech Savvy: content delivered in various data formats Public Public can observe and access most of the published content to follow dialogues. Twitter Flickr FourSquare Average User: connects with people
10. Glossary / Underlying Conceptual framework What did you say? API: Application Programming Interface, allows your datasources to interact with other software. Computer Mediated Communication: Internet based computer communications. Content: ideas, discussions, blogs, pictures, videos, comments, quotes, data, etc. Crowdsourcing: the ability to poll and engage audience in a participatory manner. Foursquare: A location-based social-networking site used with mobile devices to allow people to check in, find other people in the same location and leave tips. AIA National has a Foursquare account. Hashtag: a fixed word or phrases used with a hash symbol (#) to allow search engines to find results, used with Twitter. Mashups: a digital media file containing text, graphics, audio, or video, that recombines and modifies existing digital works to create a derivative work. Tags: an index term that allows vocabulary keyword connections between content. Twitter: microblog of 140 character limit that can be pushed from cellphones, website. Hashtags can be used to gather similar P2P: Person-to-person; in real-time sharing physical space. Platform: In computer science terms, a platform is a multi-channel device for pushing and pulling content (i.e. labtops, netbooks, smart phones, tablets, mobile applications, etc.) Push: Where one application pushes information to other platforms. (i.e. Tweets can automatically show up in Facebook.) RESTful Architecture: Re-Tweeting: To share someone’s tweet either with the practice of adding RT to the tweet or using the re-tweet button. Socio-technical Gap: A gap created due to geographic areas, cultural or socio-economic backgrounds that prevents equal opportunities for information and communication technologies in their use of Internet and ability to participate as a digital citizen. Tweet-up: Like a meet-up but done through Twitter. Twitter: A 140 character micro-blogging website with an API. Unconference: participant driven URI: Uniform Resource Identifier, used to identify a resource, often starts with -- http://www. Wikipedia: Anyone can edit Wikipedia (media-wiki) articles. Leslie is an active editor and would like AIA presence to be found on Wikipedia. Professional References Professional Reference #1 Mark Anderson Associate Professor of Architecture email: markand@berkeley.edu Department of Architecture College of Environmental Design University of California, Berkeley 232 Wurster Hall #1800 Berkeley, CA 94720-1800 (510) 642-3256 (reception) (510) 642-1641 Fax Direct contact via: Anderson Anderson Architecture 90 Tehama Street San Francisco, CA 94105 phone: 415-243-9500 email: mark@andersonanderson.com FAX 415-520-9522 www.andersonanderson.com Seattle 206-332-9500 Professional Reference #2 Tina Litteral, Hon. AIA, CAE AIA Arizona email: tina@aia-arizona.org phone: 602-252-4200 or 800-367-2781 web: http://www.aia-arizona.org Sept Oct Nov 13-19 Tokyo; Nagoya; Takayama; Kanazawa Nov 13-19 Tokyo; Nagoya; Takayama; Kanazawa Logistics: Buy plane tix, start planning tasks Leslie: 10 hours Work on Items / Hire items out based on Budget: Staff Help and responsibilities Leslie: 10 hours Prep/Communicate to AIA team plan at Conference. Leslie: 10 hours Huddle / Problem Solve with AIA staff 1-2 hours / conf. day Conference - Find group of cutting edge people to start to share content Leslie: 3 hours / conference day Conference - Collect content through interviews, photos, share. Leslie: 3 hours / conference day More can be done with more collaborative efforts. Chat w/other AIA scholarship winners? Share info w/other AIA scholarship winners? Share tasks with other AIA scholarship winners. Timeline