Dear women designers,
Payette is holding an exhibit and a panel discussion of women's work, both students and professionals at the BuildBoston BSA WiD exhibit and workshop conference on November 18, 2008. The goal of this workshop is to explore how design professions take on challenges and how their solutions make a difference at multiple scales. Attached below is a detailed description of exhibit workshop theme.

Exhibit Workshop Theme
resolutions making a difference
Within the conference theme of “Women.Power”, the WiD Exhibit Workshop focuses on the power of design in creating resolutions and making a difference in the world in which we live.
     - Resolution is the act or process of resolving, the act of analyzing a complex notion into simpler ones, the act of answering, the act of determining.
     - Resolution is also a formal expression of opinion, will, or intent voted by an official body or assembled group
     - Resolution is the process or capability of making distinguishable the individual parts of an object, closely adjacent optical images, or sources of light.

- Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Every project holds a challenge, and every designer aspires to offer a resolution. From inception to completion, each project presents opportunities to develop creative solutions along the way. From the minute level of details to the macro scale of planning, good design brings positive change. Problem - solving  with optimism can result in functionality, increased efficiency, and enhanced beauty. The goal of this workshop is to explore how design professionals take on challenges and how their solutions make a difference at multiple scales:
         - MACRO: solutions that enrich the larger context of society
         - INTERMEDIATE: solutions created at the scale of the project
         - MICRO: solutions brought forth in the level of details

Panelists in this workshop talk briefly about how their own design work has led to resolutions and has made a difference; they will also analyze the work submitted for the related exhibit. Works from all design disciplines are accepted including unbuilt work and student work. Sketches and process work are highly encouraged. Submitted projects must include a woman in an active role as designer, planner, engineer, project manager, researcher, artist, or student. One project may be submitted per person. One entry in each category will be recognized for its exceptional ideas.
Panelists

• Carole Wedge FAIA, LEED AP, Shepley Bulfinch, Boston MA
• Hubert Murray AIA, Hubert Murray Architect + Planner, Cambridge MA
• Jinhee Park AIA, LEED AP, SINGLE speed DESIGN, Cambridge MA
• Mikyoung Kim ASLA, MikyoungKim Landscape Architect, Brookline MA
• Hansy Better Barraza AIA, Studio Luz Architects, Boston MA
• Michael Blier ASLA, Landworks Studio Inc, Boston MA
• Natasha Espada AIA, LEED AP, Leers Weinzapfel Associates Architects Inc, Boston MA
• Moderator: Sho-Ping Chin AIA, LEED AP, Payette, Boston MA

Download the registration form and submission requirements. Registration forms and exhibit boards must be submitted to the BSA by 3:00 pm on Friday, September 19  to reserve a place in the exhibit.

Some of you may have submitted your work in previous years. If so, please consider doing so again. If this is your first time, go for it!!! 
Please also encourage your friends and colleagues who might be interested in the exhibit to submit their work, it can be professional work or school work.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or e-mail our general contact and we will get back to you soon: WiD_BuildBoston2008@payette.com.