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27 Following the overarching priority, the plan outlines its mission and vision with five supporting core values, four strategies and five imperatives. PRIORITY: CLIMATE ACTION FOR HUMAN AND ECOLOGICAL HEALTH Mission: AIA inspires and empowers architects to improve society and transform the world. Vision: Drive positive change through the power of design and focused activism. Core values: Impactful: What we do matters and is relevant to our clients and society. Transformative: We work for profound, lasting, positive change in the profession and society. Visionary: We imagine a better future and act courageously and confidently to achieve it. Inclusive: We believe architecture is for everyone, and we model deep collaboration and inclusion in all we do. Innovative: We lead with creativity and insight. Strategies: Mobilize for impact: Focus and align programs, services, structures, and resources to develop innovative — solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. Educate and prepare: Equip architects for success by transforming architecture education, expanding access to the profession, cultivating a learning culture and developing leadership. Advance knowledge: Knowledge is our currency. Generate, curate, and disseminate knowledge required for success. Broaden the tent: Collaborate with design, construction, community leader and stakeholders. Organize and activate grassroots advocates. Imperatives: Emphasize climate action: Build impact by focusing on climate action and positioning architects as community leaders to drive the widescale adoption of practical design solutions that will rapidly address and mitigate the effects of climate change. Catalyze equity: Foster diversity and inclusion in the profession, and advance the health, safety, and welfare of our communities through design and advocacy for lasting solutions in our built environments. Optimize the role of the architect: Optimize architects’ presence and impact by equipping and preparing them to serve as conveners, collaborators, civic leaders, and change agents in developing and delivering solutions to society’s most pressing needs. Revolutionize research and technology: Leverage emerging technologies to accelerate architecture’s progression to a knowledge-driven discipline and evidence-based, transformative solutions. Harness an intra/entrepreneurial startup mentality to foster rapid innovation. Revolutionize architectural education: Make architectural education more responsive to emerging trends, more inclusive of underserved audiences, and more oriented toward the future role of the architect. AIA FRAMEWORK TO ADDRESS SYSTEMIC RACIAL INJUSTICE AND INEQUITY Future Forward: Moving justice and racial and gender equity decisively from aspiration to action. https://www.aia.org/pages/6303978-future-forward. Harnessing our members’ passion and the broader design community, AIA is taking steps to advance racial justice and equity in our organization, profession and communities. It will do so in the following ways: Dismantle barriers within all AIA systems: governance, honors and awards, internal policies, vendor selection, hiring/retention, and any business practice that intentionally or unintentionally contributes to injustice and exclusion (policies, practices and programs). Expand inclusiveness and diversity within the profession through K-12 and higher education engagements and advocate for effective pathways into the profession. Expand the participation of racially and ethnically diverse populations, women and other underrepresented groups. Conduct training, enhance education and knowledge dissemination and increase the number of high-quality new resources for the Board, staff, volunteers and members. Ensure alignment with AIA 2021-2025 strategic plan. PUBLIC OUTREACH AIA Film Challenge: 97 films qualified for the 2020 AIA Film Challenge; winners, including the Grand Prize, runner-up, Third Place and People’s Choice, were announced at a virtual award ceremony on October 21st. See the winning films at https://aiafilmchallenge.org/ The new website for Blueprint for Better has launched! Sign up now to commit to taking action against climate change and receive updates and resources on how we can all contribute to being part of the solution, together with all AIA members, civic leaders, and those in the public taking climate action. An extensive digital marketing campaign will also launch in January. SUPPORTING EMERGING PROFESSIONALS The Supporting Emerging Professionals Task Force, appointed in response to 2018 Convention Resolution 18-6, was charged to study To ensure the AIA’s health and sustainability at all levels, the task force identified circumstances for potential AIA support for components.  — continued on page 28