The International Association of People-Environment Studies (IAPS), has been promoting the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between planning and social scientists for 35 years – above all between spatial planning, architecture, psychology, and sociology. IAPS was officially founded in 1981, although its origins can be traced back to a series of successful conferences in several European countries from 1969 to 1979.
The objectives of IAPS are:
*To facilitate communication among those concerned with the relationships between people and their physical environment
*To stimulate research and innovation for improving human well-being and the physical environment
*To promote the integration of research, education, policy and practice
People-environment studies, originating from
environmental psychology
Environmental psychology is a branch of psychology that explores the relationship between humans and the external world. It examines the way in which the natural environment and our built environments shape us as individuals. Environmental Psychol ...
(
Lewin, Barker,
Brunswik Brunswik is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Egon Brunswik (1903-1955), Hungarian-American psychologist
* Else Frenkel-Brunswik (1908-1958), Polish-Austrian psychologist
Brunswik may also refer to:
* Brunswik, district of Ki ...
), have always tried to close the "mind gaps" between natural sciences, engineering, arts, and social sciences by an
epistemological approach that encompasses denotations (objects and techniques) as well as connotations (subjective social, cultural meanings).
Membership
Benefits of membership include:
* The right to vote and stand for membership of the Board
* Reduced fees for attending conferences and seminars
* Free copies of the IAPS newsletter. This contains research summaries, articles, reviews, letters, lists of references, and general news of the research field
* The right to be listed in and receive a copy of the Directory of IAPS members
* Reduced subscription rates for specified journals
List of conferences
The
biannual conference is the main event organised under auspices of the association. In the past years, the following
conferences
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Conferences can be used as a form of group decision-making, although discussion, not always decisions, are the main ...
have been organised:
Post conference publications
People, Places, and Sustainability(2002) Editors: Moser, G. / Pol, E. / Bernard, Y. / Bonnes, M. / Corraliza, J.A. / Giuliani, V.
(2003) Editors: García Mira, R. /
Sabucedo Cameselle, J.M. / Martínez, J.R.
Designing Social Innovation - Planning, Building, Evaluating(2005) Editors: Martens, B. / Keul, A.G.
(2010) Editors: Abdel-Hadi, A. / Tolba, M.K. / Soliman, S.
IAPS Digital Library
A
database
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of all 4,400 abstracts from conferences since 1969, which permits a full-text search through the history of environmental psychology.
Notable people
*
Perla Serfaty, inducted into the IAPS Hall of Fame in 2018
References
External links
Homepage of IAPSHomepage of the IAPS Digital Library
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