Call for Proposals

The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) invites practitioners, researchers, and educators to join us at the 52nd annual conference JUST ENVIRONMENTS to collaboratively rethink how environmental research and practice may serve as a foundation for change and justice. EDRA52 will take place online.

The EDRA52 Detroit Conference Committee invites you to submit your work and participate in the 2021 conference. As you plan for submission, please read the full Call for Proposals. The submission deadline is January 8th.

NEW Submission Process

To begin a submission, click on the 'Begin a Submission' button under the submission type. You will be directed to EDRA where you will either:
Log in with your existing EDRA membership account
OR
Log in by creating a NEW member or non-member account

Once you have logged in/created a new account you will be redirected to this page where you may start a submission by selecting a submission type below.

We encourage submissions in the following THEMES:

  • Framing Just Worlds
  • Building Just Communities
  • Sharing Just Resources
  • Creating Just Societies
  • Supporting Just Movements
  • Designing Just Places
  • Accessing Just Technologies

We recognize that EDRA is home to a broad and diverse range of work and welcome submissions from across all disciplines and professions to represent the full variety of issues that are encompassed by environmental design research.

We look forward to receiving your submission, and to seeing you in Virtual Detroit!

KEY DUE DATES*

August 14, 2020 Call for proposals released: https://www.edra.org/edra52
August 24, 2020 Submission portal opens
November 16, 2020 Due date for all Intensives, Abstract (Individual and Group Presentation), and Full Paper
November 20, 2020 Due date for Mobile Sessions
December 18, 2020 Due Date for Graduate Student Mentoring Workshop application
December 21, 2020 Early Bird registration opens
January 8, 2021 Due date for Work in Progress: Abstracts and Visual Presentations - Video Shorts and Poster Abstracts
January 14, 2021 First round of notifications for Abstract and Paper acceptance
January 29, 2021 Due date for Individual Presentation Abstracts and Papers revisions (required only for those with the initial decision of Acceptance Pending Revisions)
February 15, 2021 Final round of notifications for all submissions.
Notifications about acceptance to Graduate Student Mentoring Workshop
March 1, 2021 Due date Mentor applications for Graduate Student Mentoring Workshop
March 8, 2021 Regular registration begins/Early Bird registration ends
March 31, 2021 Due date for presenting authors to register for the conference for the session to be included in the EDRA52 program
April 16, 2021 Due date Poster digital copy
Due date All virtual materials (session pre-recorded presentations, Digital Media Shorts)
May 19-23, 2021 EDRA52 Just Environments Conference in Virtual Detroit

*All dates are intended as 11:59PM Pacific Standard Time (GMT -8)

Begin a submission to the following:

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS: ABSTRACT
New Submissions Closed

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS: PAPER
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GROUP PRESENTATIONS: SYMPOSIA
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GROUP PRESENTATIONS: WORKSHOPS
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GROUP PRESENTATIONS: PRACTITIONER/RESEARCHER COLLABORATIONS
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INTENSIVE SESSIONS
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WORK IN PROGRESS: ABSTRACT - New submission type
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MOBILE SESSIONS
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DIGITAL MEDIA SHORTS
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POSTERS
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