2024-11-24T11:15:27-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150292281/an-architectural-education-renaissance-action-well-being-radical-racial-equity-kindness-resilience-xenobots-the-community-shares-their-predictions-for-2022 Archinect 2022-01-03T09:00:00-05:00 >2022-09-10T11:31:08-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/3a/3a0d5c946d5a9616f0b78f27a09805f6.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>After reflecting on this past year's news and events in&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/1893636/2021-year-in-review" target="_blank">Archinect's 2021 Year in Review</a>, we move our focus onto what we can expect in the coming year.</p> <p>As we approach 2022, and Archinect's 25th anniversary, we've reached out to our community of contributors, previously interviewed individuals, firms leaders, designers, and academics to share their thoughts and predictions for the coming year.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> https://archinect.com/features/article/32418179/top-10-design-initiatives-to-watch-in-2012-for-the-public-good John Cary 2011-12-27T14:34:00-05:00 >2022-09-10T11:31:08-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/q1/q1xdvl1q1ksa9c4m.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> <em>By John Cary</em></p> <p> Last week&rsquo;s <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/31829593/top-10-design-milestones-of-2011-for-the-public-good" target="_blank">Top 10 Design Milestones of 2011</a>, published here at Archinect, highlighted advances in design for the public good by profiling leading organizations from <a href="http://www.ideo.org" target="_blank">IDEO.org</a> and <a href="http://www.massdesigngroup.org" target="_blank">Mass Design Group</a> to individuals like Jeanne Gang and Michael Kimmelman. As we round out this year and usher in the next, it feels important to also look towards the future&mdash;though, of course, looking back is always easier than looking forward.</p> <p> With that in mind, this is not an exercise in trend spotting, but rather a simple meditation on initiatives poised to advance the field, and how they can be scaled up, refined, tweaked, borrowed, and leveraged. None of the following is entirely new; some are a long time in the making, while others are testing new directions. Some initiatives also evade mention, either because they&rsquo;re not yet public or because they haven&rsquo;t yet been dreamed up. One thing is for certain: the bar is higher than ever, even&mdash;and perhaps especially&mdash;for design efforts that c...</p>