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Toggle navigation 2017 Excellence Awards Contact Us Subscribe Facebook Twitter Share this Facebook Twitter Center for Active Design 2017 Winner Macon Connects. Photo courtesy of NewTown Macon -- Celebrate Active Design Meet the 2017 Winners Previous Winners Jurors Awards Press About the Center Key Partners Celebrate Active Design On September 27, 2017, the winners of the Center for Active Design: Excellence awards were celebrated at WNYC’s Greene Space. Whether reinventing public spaces, improving infrastructure to encourage active transportation, or reimagining what an office space can offer its employees, these projects from around the world captivated attendees with their creative design thinking and impressive impact on health and engagement. The event also featured a panel discussion on the pivotal role public spaces play in fostering a range of holistic health outcomes. Moderated by WNYC’s Paige Cowett, the panel highlighted the expertise of Linda Gibbs, Principal at Bloomberg Associates, Justin Garrett Moore, Executive Director of the NYC Public Design Commission, and Dr. James Sallis, Distinguished Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, San Diego and this year’s winner of the Thought Leadership Award. View Pictures from the Event Scroll down to see your 2017 winners and watch the panel on the importance of public spaces. Panel Discussion Linda Gibbs Justin Garrett Moore Dr. James Sallis Paige Cowett Center for Active Design: Excellence Winner Macon Connects Center for Active Design: Excellence Winner Veneto Active City Center for Active Design: Excellence Winner Etsy Center for Active Design: Excellence Winner Nixon Peabody, LLP Center for Active Design: Excellence Winner Elmhurst Public Library Center for Active Design: Excellence Winner North Kansas City Schools: Students in Academically Gifted Education Center for Active Design: Excellence Winner Evaluation of the Liveable Neighbourhood Guidelines Active Design: Excellence in Thought Leadership Dr. James Sallis, Ph.D 2017 Winners Meet the 2017 Winners This year’s Center for Active Design: Excellence award winners illustrate how active design has made a decisive transition, shifting from a special topic of interest among forward-thinking designers and researchers, to a commonly-espoused motivator driving all types of design and development practice. Winning projects illustrate how an emphasis on physical, mental, and social wellbeing can be achieved—through shifts in regional policies, grassroots advocacy campaigns, and the leveraging of health-promoting design as a key market differentiator. View All Winners 2014 Winner Greenbridge, designed by GGLO Previous Winners Previous Winners Over the past four years, our distinguished jury members have recognized nearly 40 noteworthy projects through the Excellence awards. Taken collectively, the winners demonstrate that Active Design strategies can be successfully implemented in a wide variety of typologies and geographies, and can be used to address a range of local priorities. Excellence award winners serve as catalysts for broad-based community transformation, and offer inspiring precedents for shaping future design and research. View All Winners 2015 Winner Fulton Center, designed by Grimshaw Architects and Arup Jurors 2017 Jury David Burney Chair of the Board at the Center for Active Design and Associate Professor of Planning and Placemaking at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture David J. Burney, FAIA is Associate Professor of Planning and Placemaking at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture and the Chair of the Board at the Center for Active Design. Prior to these positions, he served as the Commissioner of the NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) from 2004 to 2014, where he launched a citywide “Design and Construction Excellence Initiative” with the goal of raising the quality of design and construction of public works projects throughout New York City, and helped spearhead the development of the Active Design Guidelines . Mr. Burney was educated at the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and at the University of London. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the AIA NYC Award of Merit in 2014. More Less Madeline Burke-Vigeland Principal at Gensler Maddy Burke-Vigeland, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, principal at Gensler, brings passion and commitment to every project—from landmark preservation and building renovations to new buildings and education and cultural institutions. Maddy has taught at Pratt Institute, Columbia University, New York University and The New York School, and she was a guest faculty member at Harvard University’s Leadership Institute for Legislative Advocacy conference in 2012. Maddy's work has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Architectural Record, Fast Company, Atlantic Cities, and Interior Design, among others. More Less Susan Chung Senior Research Associate at ASID Susan Chung, Ph.D., is the senior research associate at the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) where she connects design and research for improving human experiences in the interior environment. Valuing the needs of design practitioners, her work at ASID is based on translating research on current interior design issues into applicable design implications and directing research projects that create meaningful positive impacts on human experiences. She comes from an interior design and behavioral research background and focused on design attributes related to creativity in workplace environments for her doctorate degree in Human Behavior and Design at Cornell University. More Less Linda Gibbs Principal at Bloomberg Associates Linda served as New York City Deputy Mayor of Health and Human Services from 2005-2013. Supervising the city’s human service, public health and social justice agencies, she spearheaded major initiatives on poverty alleviation, juvenile justice reform and obesity reduction. “Age Friendly NYC”, a blueprint for enhancing livability for older New Yorkers; and “Young Men’s Initiative”, addressing race-based disparities facing Black and Latino young men in the areas of health, education, employment training and the justice system, are two of the collaborative efforts she shaped to address significant social challenges. Gibbs also improved the use of data and technology in human service management and spearheaded efforts to improve contract effectiveness and create evidence-based program development. During her tenure, New York City has been the only top-20 city in the U.S. whose poverty rate did not increase while the national average rose 28%. Prior to her appointment as Deputy Mayor, Gibbs was Commissioner of the New York City Department of Homeless Services and held senior positions with the Administration for Children’s Services and the Office of Management and Budget. More Less Deb Gorhan Americas Manager, Wellness & Health Promotion at Johnson & Johnson Deb Gorhan is a strategic health promotion professional with a focus on creating environments and networks that provide opportunities for individuals and organizations to adopt and sustain healthy lifestyles. She has developed tools and initiatives to support over 127,000 Johnson & Johnson employees worldwide. Deb has forged partnerships with a range of institutions, including HERO and CEOs Against Cancer, and has also participated in the CDC expert panel for Worksite Obesity Prevention and Control. She is a member of the Core Advisory Committee for Active Design Workplace Wellbeing and Member at Large for the Worksite Wellness Councils of Massachusetts. She has contributed to benchmarking sessions, co-authored articles and chapters on the topic of workplace well-being and Population Health. Before corporate health promotion, she worked in academics as a teaching fellow, radio sales and copywriting and in Planned Giving for Deborah Hospital Foundation. She received her ...