EDRA56 Halifax

Call for Proposals

The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) invites practitioners, researchers, and educators to submit their proposals and join the 56th annual conference on the theme Environment and Health.

The EDRA56 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Conference Committee invites you to submit your work and participate in the 2025 conference. As you plan for submission, please read the full Call for Proposals.

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.

If you know you have an existing account, please use that account to avoid duplicate accounts that might prevent you from accessing your submission.

TOPIC AREAS/TRACKS

  • Planning for Adaptation-Coasts and Climate
  • Supporting Growing Communities
  • Building Green Affordable Housing
  • Innovating For Sustainable Living
  • Prioritizing Disability, Equity, and Justice
  • Transdisciplinary Design and Collaboration/open Track

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 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada!

KEY DUE DATES*

September 24, 2024
December, 2024
  • Extended deadline for the following submissions: Intensives, Paper Abstracts, Individual Presentations, Full Papers, and Group Presentations (Workshops, Symposia, Researcher-Practitioner Collabs).
  • Deadline extended from November 14, 2024 to December 5, 2024
  • Notification of acceptance for all submissions is anticipated expected by mid-January.
December 12, 2024
  • Early Bird registration opens.
January 9, 2025
  • Due date for Visual Presentations including abstracts for Posters, Digital Media Shorts.
  • Due date for Graduate Student Workshop submissions.
January 15, 2025
  • Opening date for Nana Kirk Scholarship applications.
February 27, 2025
  • Early Bird registration ends.
  • Regular registration beings.
  • Nana Kirk Scholarship applications close.
March 20, 2025
  • Final deadline for ALL conference presenters to register for the conference. For individual sessions, a minimum of one author or co-author of each accepted session must be registered.
  • For Group presentations (including Intensives), ALL presenters must be registered to be a part of the EDRA56 program.
April 24, 2025
  • Deadline to upload digital file of Poster and Digital Medial Shorts.
  • GSMW extended summary and presentations due.
May 27-30, 2025
  • EDRA56 Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

*All dates are intended as 11:59PM EST

Begin a submission to the following:

GROUP PRESENTATIONS: PRACTITIONER/RESEARCHER COLLABORATIONS
New Submissions Closed

GROUP PRESENTATIONS: SYMPOSIA
New Submissions Closed

GROUP PRESENTATIONS: WORKSHOPS
New Submissions Closed

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS: ABSTRACT
New Submissions Closed

INDIVIDUAL PRESENTATIONS: PAPER
New Submissions Closed

INTENSIVE SESSIONS
New Submissions Closed

DIGITAL MEDIA SHORTS
Deadline for New Submissions: Thursday, January 9, 2025  11:59PM EST

GRADUATE STUDENT WORKSHOP
Deadline for New Submissions: Thursday, January 9, 2025  11:59PM EST

POSTERS
Deadline for New Submissions: Thursday, January 9, 2025  11:59PM EST