Awards & Scholarships

Student Awards

Best Student Paper, First Place

What Village Are You from? Understanding the Origins and Morphology of Informal Settlements in Ahmedabad, India by Kali Marnane

Best Student Design Poster, First Place Tie

Staying Power: Millennial Travel Behavior, Instagram Use, and Sustainable Hotel Design for Cities by Erin Colwell

Best Student Design Poster, First Place Tie

A Design-Oriented Approach of Preparedness Against Active Shooters: A Case of Evaluating a University Student Lounge by Kristy Kellom

Career Award Winner 2019

Jean Wineman, PhD

Jean Wineman, a 40 year EDRA member, is an architectural researcher and educator who has spent her entire career at two premier research universities—Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Michigan. .Over the past four decades, she has studied relationships between people and the places and spaces they use. She is experienced in environmental programming and has explored the links between visual and spatial properties of the built environment and behavioral and educational outcomes. She has a track record of federally funded research ranging from the role of spatial/visual relations in residential satisfaction and behaviors in urban contexts, to educational outcomes in zoos and museums, and the role of built environments in supporting work performance, communications, and innovation.

Dr. Wineman’s primary contribution to advancing environmental design research has been the development and application of new approaches to understanding and quantifying aspects of the built environment. Much environmental design research has looked to the social sciences for tools to assess human behavior. However, research on characterization of built spaces has lagged behind these advanced social science methods often relying on descriptive approaches or simple metrics, such as distance or square footage. Dr. Wineman’s research employs new ideas about the tools and strategies available for the description and analysis of built space. She has been successful in applying these approaches in research, consulting, and in educating the next generation of Environment-Behavior (EB) students.

Drawing from the theories and methods of space syntax, and developing new spatial measures, Dr. Wineman has advanced the understanding of spatial layout and pioneered new studies of the interrelationships between design and human behavior in work spaces, zoos and museums, and urban neighborhoods. She has served for over ten years as a member of the International Space Syntax steering committee.

Another contribution to the field is Dr. Wineman’s commitment to bringing EB research to application in planning and design projects for new construction and renovation. Her research activities in the design of workspace and educational settings have led to a series of planning /programming projects for organizations including: UCSF School of Medicine (San Francisco CA), Eton Academy (Birmingham MI), Institute for Social Research (Ann Arbor MI), FSC Educational Inc. (Mansfield OH), Joseph Jones Ecological Research Center (Ichaway GA, affiliated with the Woodruff Foundation), Scholars Press on the Emory University Campus (Atlanta), and the Winthrop University Science Center (Rock Hill SC).

Over the course of her career, Dr. Wineman has taught courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, Jean has advised and mentored more than 50 future EB students, many of whom are faculty members at universities throughout the world or in researchers in private practice. As a scholar, she has authored or coauthored more than 30 refereed articles and book chapters In each of these roles, Dr. Jean Wineman demonstrates the qualities that are worthy of the 2019 EDRA Career Award.

2019 EDRA Career Award

The recipient of this year’s EDRA Career Award is Professor Kenneth Craik. The award is being presented posthumously to Professor Craik’s wife Janice, his daughters Amy and Jenny, and granddaughter Emily on his behalf, in recognition of Professor Craik’s enduring impact and profound contributions to the fields of environmental psychology and environmental design research. Ken was a driving force in helping launch and advance these fields from the mid-1960s until his passing in 2012. It’s especially fitting that we honor Ken with the 2019 Career Award during this 50th anniversary year of EDRA as we reflect on evolution of environmental design research over the past five decades.

After completing his Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1964, Ken became increasingly interested in environment-behavior studies, authoring early articles on “The prospects of an environmental psychology” in 1966 and “The comprehension of the everyday environment” in 1968 for the Journal of the American Institute of Planners. He wrote the first review of environmental psychology in the Annual Review of Psychology in 1973 and later published his highly influential article in the International Journal of Psychology in 1977, titled “Multiple scientific paradigms in environmental psychology”. Some of these paradigms included ecological psychology, environmental perception, environmental cognition, environmental assessment, and personality and the environment.

Ken’s scholarship was especially catalytic in shaping the directions of personality and environment research as well as the environmental assessment and environmental perception paradigms. Ken and his student, George McKechnie, pioneered in conceptualizing and measuring environmental dispositions reflecting individuals’ orientations (like pastoralism, urbanism, conservationism) toward their everyday surroundings. Ken worked with other graduate students and colleagues (such as Brian Little, David Buss, and Sam Gosling) to develop the Act Frequency and Lived Day methodologies for tracking people’s behavioral expressions of their personality traits through real-time observations and self-reports of their behaviors, and personal markings (e.g., decorations) of their environments. Ken also collaborated with Erv Zube to establish rigorous methods for evaluating people’s environmental perceptions, culminating in their 1976 book, Perceiving Environmental Quality. At the same time, Ken made pivotal contributions to environmental assessment and simulation research. Ken and his longtime colleague, Don Appleyard, established the nation’s first scale-model, camera-guided Environmental Simulation Laboratory in the basement of Wurster Hall at UC Berkeley. There they created realistic, dynamic simulations of Marin County and San Francisco and tested the validity of individuals’ perceptions of simulated environments in predicting their ratings of the corresponding, full-scale environments during real-time visits to those settings. Ken’s professional contributions further solidified the scholarly and organizational moorings of environment-behavior and design research. With David Canter, Ken established the Journal of Environmental Psychology (JEP) in 1981and served as co-editor of JEP for several years. He also helped launch the Environmental Psychology Division of the International Association of Applied Psychology and served as President of the Division in 1984-86. He served as President of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Population and Environmental Psychology as well between 1982-84. And at Berkeley, Ken directed the Institute for Personality Assessment and Research (IPAR) from 1984-88.

In addition to being an exceptional scholar and professional colleague, Ken was an unusually compassionate and supportive mentor, genuinely concerned about his students’ well-being. He was an abiding source of encouragement and good will toward all who knew him. We continue to miss Ken’s warmth, kindness and good humor and we remain in his debt for all that he contributed to environmental psychology and environmental design research. It is with feelings of profound gratitude, admiration, and sadness for Ken’s passing that we present the 2019 EDRA Career Award to Professor Kenneth Craik, who’s family is with us this evening to accept the award on his behalf.

Achievement Award 2019

Placemaking with Children and Youth: Participatory Practices for Planning Sustainable Communities by Victoria Derr, Louise Chawla, and Mara Mintzer

Nana Kirk Scholarship Recipients

• Ali Momen-Heravi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Ashley Tannebaum, Harvard University
• Hassnaa Mohammed, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Hoda Barzegar Ganji, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• Jiajing Li, Tsinghua University
• Kimia Erfani, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• Melanie Watchman, Laval University
• Peggy Chi, University of Toronto
• Renae Mantooth, North Carolina State University
• Rutali Joshi, Clemson University
• Shermineh Afsary, University of Kansas