‘THE FUTURE WE ENVISION’
It is 2030, and we have met the seemingly insurmountable climate crisis with courageous, creative, and decisive action. People everywhere are united under a common pledge to create an equitable, resilient, regenerative, and carbon-free future.
At the heart of this movement, AIA has energized a global community of professionals to leverage their knowledge and activism to enact positive change through design.
AIA is widely recognized for its commitment to excellence in the education and leadership development of design professionals. Architects have become leaders in our communities, bringing innovative yet practical solutions to the challenges we face. We foster diversity and inclusion in the profession.
AIA has become a catalyst for change, for bold action that develops and delivers solutions to society’s most pressing needs. Architects are positioned at the center of policy discussions surrounding the built environment.
AIA has convened broad coalitions to collaborate on solutions. We have generated, curated, and disseminated knowledge that magnifies the transformative impact of design. We have mobilized our members to meet challenges with decisive action.
AIA and allied organizational partners generate unity and accelerate progress in the design and construction industry.
AIA is at the center of the world’s most urgent conversations and is acknowledged as the driving force inspiring and empowering architects to improve society and change the world.’
This is the 2021 AIA strategic plan.
We have 9 years to accomplish this.
How do we get there?
We are coming off a year of covid. Issues of life and death have forced us to take stock about who we are and what is important to us. Do we want to go back to the office 40 hours a week or spend more time with our families? Or is it time to use what we have learned and move in a new direction?
On the national scale, the focus has pivoted to infrastructure, climate change and social justice and our newspapers are starting to talk about the New Deal. I believe this is an inflection point, an unparalleled chance to ponder where we want to go as a field. How can we leverage our expertise, our experience, our creativity, and our networks to transform the way the public thinks about architects and how architecture can transform society? I believe we need to seize this pivotal moment, or we may not see another opportunity for a long time.
Grassroots 2021
AIA Virtual Convention 2021