This week's featured virtual event happenings, from Archinect's Virtual Event Guide, address design as protest, community engagement, adaptive cities, post-COVID workplace design and public spaces, and modes of architectural practice. Live streams include AIA's 25-year award (postponed to June 22nd!) and RAIC's virtual conference on architecture.

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A Primer in Effective Community Engagement and Design
UPDATE: POSTPONED TO Tuesday, June 23, 2020 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
This panel discussion, moderated by Bryony Roberts, brings together four different perspectives to delve into what successful community engagement processes can look like and how to make them a part of standard practice.
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Design As Protest - National Call
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 | 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM CST
In solidarity with the Movement for Black Lives and in defense of Black Life, we invite Black design professionals, designers of color, and co-conspirators for a national webinar.
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SCI-Arc's Making + Meaning Live Info Session
Wednesday, June 3, 2020 3:00 PM PDT
Join a LIVE information session on June 3, 2020 at 3:00 pm PST with Making + Meaning program coordinator, Alexis Rochas. Making + Meaning is a four-week career exploration and portfolio-building summer studio program that introduces students to architectural experimentation and transformative design techniques in a unique and lively studio setting.
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Livestream: Winner! AIA Twenty-five Year Award 2020
UPDATE: POSTPONED TO Monday, June 22, 2020 | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM EDT
Watch the live stream Wednesday, June 3, at 4pm ET to find out who won one of architecture’s most coveted awards, the AIA Twenty-Five Year Award 2020. After the announcement, design critic Ned Cramer will interview the winning architect and one of the project owners.
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RAIC 2020 Virtual Conference on Architecture
Thursday, June 4, 2020 | 11:00 AM – 8:00 PM EDT
The RAIC Virtual Conference on Architecture brings together professionals at every stage in their career to learn, explore, and discuss the challenges and opportunities facing the practice.?The virtual program offers eighteen hours of structured learning in a flexible format.
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TALK: Adaptive Cities in a Post-Covid Era: The Mobility Sector
Thursday, June 4, 2020 | 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EDT
This virtual forum will explore the specific ways in which cities and societies have been affected, and how public and private sector actors are working to support a near and long-term revolution to create more equitable, sustainable, healthy, and beautiful cities.
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Touch-Me-Not Workspaces – A New Normal?
Thursday, June 4, 2020 | 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM BST
WOD (Women in Office Design) presents a dialogue between global designers, facilities heads & real estate service providers about post-pandemic workspaces.
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Architecture 20/20: New Visions for Public Spaces in the Age of COVID-19
Thursday, June 4, 2020 | 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Architects (Steve Dumez, EskewDumezRipple; Maitland Jones, Deborah Berke Partners; Nick Koster, Snøhetta; and Paul Schulhof, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects), and museum directors to discuss “New Visions for Public Spaces in the Age of COVID-19” in a Zoom Webinar on Thursday, June 4, 7-8:30 pm.
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Expanding Modes of Practice: Interboro
Friday, June 5, 2020 | 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM EDT
Moderated by Bryony Roberts, guest editor of Log 48: Expanding Modes of Practice, this online discussion brings together architects and designers whose work harnesses multiple modes of practice, exemplifying a “slipperiness” between fields.
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Cocktails & Conversation: KieranTimberlake and Sarah Williams Goldhagen
UPDATE: POSTPONED
For this program of Cocktails & Conversation, James Timberlake and Stephen Kieran of KieranTimberlake will sit down with author and architecture critic Sarah Williams Goldhagen over a custom-crafted cocktail as they discuss their firm and work.
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