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Hennepin County announced today that homelessness among veterans in the county has been effectively ended. https://lnkd.in/g3Nyy-6y Hennepin County and its partners are housing and helping veterans overcome homelessness at a higher rate than veterans are coming into the homelessness system. As a result, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH), Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have certified that we effectively ended homelessness among veterans in Minnesota’s largest county. “Hennepin County is one of the most populous counties in the country to achieve an effective end to veteran homelessness,” said USICH Executive Director Jeff Olivet. “Hennepin County’s efforts are a case study in successful homelessness policy, and we encourage other communities to follow in their footsteps as we work together to ensure every veteran has a home.”

??Early reduced rate registration ends TODAY, Tuesday, October 15; save money by signing up today! Register now: https://lnkd.in/dBmsPqF All pre-registration closes November 6. Select your courses before they reach capacity. Don’t miss special registrations for tours, luncheons, and the awards celebration. Register for the entire conference, or choose a one-day option. Your AIA Minnesota Conference on Architecture is just around the corner! Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with your fellow architects, designers, and AEC collaborators. Get inspired, gain new insights, and build on your knowledge to deliver the best of what architecture can be! This is YOUR conference because YOU make it great! Many thanks to the more than 100 AIA Minnesota members who are providing session content and the dozens of members volunteering their time to make this an exceptional gathering. #A24MN

Alliiance?designers, along with team members from the Metropolitan Airports Commission, Michaud Cooley Erickson, and MEYER BORGMAN JOHNSON, led a tour of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, organized by the St. Paul Chapter of AIA Minnesota. The tour showcased major updates to Terminal 1 Arrivals and Departures, highlighting several Alliiance-designed spaces, including the ticketing, baggage claim, valet, and east departures areas. Project leaders shared insights into the comprehensive project process, covering topics such as passenger flow, wayfinding, vertical circulation, integrated art, lighting design, sustainability, and universal design. ? Thank you to AIA St. Paul and everyone who participated! ? #AIA #Tour #Aviation #Alliiance #UnitingPeopleAndPlaceThroughDesign

Way to represent my fellow Minnesotans at the 2024 Women’s Leadership Summit! I love this empowering gathering-this is my fourth time now, so I guess I’m at groupie status!!! ????#WLS2024 AIA Minnesota

??♀?Join AIA Northern Minnesota for a hard hat tour of Lake Superior College Manufacturing expansion project in Duluth on Thursday, October 24, at 3:30 pm!??♂? Lake Superior College is relocating their manufacturing programs from their existing downtown campus back to main campus. The project scope is a 8,300sf addition and a 20,000sf renovation of the existing “T Building”. The programs in the manufacturing department include welding, machine tool, and robotics. The college is within the Minnesota State College system and the project is required to follow the B3/SB2030 guidelines due to the state bonding funding source. Architecture Advantage, LLC and Kraus-Anderson will present the project scope, processes, and challenges faced during the project followed by a tour of the spaces. The project is under construction and is currently scheduled to be completed in January 2025. AIA continuing education credits have been applied for. Pending approval this tour will provide 1.0 HSW LU for AIA membership requirements. Read more details & register to attend: https://lnkd.in/gvrP8QxB

Dunwoody College of Technology’s Women in Technical Careers Scholarship program is thrilled to announce the launch of the 2024-2025 mentorship program! This program is designed to connect our WITC scholars with a woman who is working in the industry they are studying. 12 women are seeking mentors from the architecture community. Mentorship matches can expect to spend between 1 and 3 hours each month connecting with one another. The time commitment is based on availability and desire of the mentor match. Communication can happen in person, on the phone, video call, as well as texting and email, based on comfort level. The program will run October 2024-May 2025 (or beyond, if you choose!). Learn more and sign up: https://lnkd.in/gb3p_ZBB

Join ENTER at Room & Board in Edina for a design conversation on sustainable workspaces and furnishings on Thursday, October 10. Editor Chris Hudson will moderate a discussion with Room & Board sustainability director Emily McGarvey and three leading workplace architects and designers: Snow Kreilich Architects senior associate Katie Blaisdell, AIA, Perkins&Will Minneapolis design director Tony Layne, AIA, and MSR Design interior design lead Veronica McCracken Karr. Enjoy complimentary light bites and beverages and enter for a chance to win a $250 Room & Board gift card. Register today for this free event: https://lnkd.in/gcfBYcD5 Space is limited.

A huge thank you to everyone who made this year’s Homes by Architects Tour a great success — the homeowners, architecture firms, volunteers, sponsors, and tour goers! ?? You can still explore our two virtual tour homes, designed by PAF Architecture and Grayspace Architecture, until October 13. You can find the password for the exclusive virtual tour content on page 5 of your tour guide book, and in your original Eventbrite confirmation email if you purchased a ticket online. (Case-sensitive, only two Ts.) Virtual-only tickets are still available as well at homesbyarchitects.org.

Don’t miss the #A24MN Tuesday keynote, Ozayr Saloojee! ?? Register for the Minnesota Conference of Architecture now: https://lnkd.in/dBmsPqF Ozayr Saloojee is professor of architecture at Carleton University in Ottawa, where he is also cross-appointed at the Institute for African Studies and as affiliate faculty at Carleton’s Center for the Study of Islam. He co-directs Carleton’s Urban Research Lab, currently serves as associate editor of design for the Journal of Architectural Education, and holds external appointments in landscape architecture at the University of Minnesota and at Royal Roads University’s College of Interdisciplinary Sciences. His teaching, research, and creative practice are preoccupied with finding an architecture enacted otherwise, and of architecture as a practice of tender, epistemic dreaming. His research interests focus on anti-colonial and politically contested landscapes, geo-imaginaries, and questions of tradition and modernity in Islamic art and architecture. Born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, he completed his B.Arch and Post-professional M.Arch II (Theory and Culture) from Carleton University and his doctoral research at the Bartlett School of Architecture (University College London). Saloojee will be presenting on “Form Follows Pipelines: The (Continued) Weaponization of Architecture” — A colleague once rolled his eyes when someone said, in a faculty meeting, that architecture is in crisis. “It’s ALWAYS in crisis,” he drawled, and then continued, with a sigh, “Let’s get on with the meeting and back to scheduling.” What follows is a serious question (seriously): Can we just get on with the meeting, anymore? What’s changed, with the advent of black squares and EDI politics, of land acknowledgements without land-back? With demands for reparations, for (more-than-only) recognition? In the face of ongoing genocide and urbicide? This keynote title riffs on V. Mitch McEwen’s 2021 Archinect essay, “Form Follows Fascism Redux,” and is a meditation on the weaponization of architecture, as an entangled system of disciplinary and professional practice in a not-so-brat world.