Goals
The goals of the Architectural Research Centers Consortium
(ARCC) are:
- To facilitate the development of an architectural
research culture, including its infrastructure of
researchers, facilities, equipment, research centers, and
educational programs
- To promote that culture and an awareness of its scope
- To identify possibilities for, and to aid in
establishing, research partnerships among government,
industry, professional, and academic communities
- To facilitate exchanges of researchers and students,
information and ideas, and access to equipment and
resources
- To facilitate knowledge transfer with regard to the
impact of design decisions on the quality of the
environment and its infrastructure
- To aid in technology transfer between industry,
professionals, and the schools.
ARCC accomplishes these goals through such mechanisms as:
- Providing contact points through the ARCC Board of
Directors for individual researchers, university centers,
firms, or practitioners seeking information about member
research projects, activities, or expertise
- Helping develop agendas for research in architecture and
the built environment in the US, Canada, and Mexico which
encompass social, technical, and environmental domains
- Nurturing linkages between research centers in schools,
firms, companies, and the public sector
- Developing and nurturing subject-based networks of
researchers
- Conducting workshops on administrative practices and
issues in research centers and programs
- Developing or facilitating strategies to enable research
assimilation into curricula and practice
- Dissemination of information, needs, and plans from
research-supporting agencies and organizations
- Exchanging information on research programs, projects,
facilities and equipment, doctoral and advanced study
programs and other aspects of research infrastructure.
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This page was last updated 21 April 2008.