Could all you please attend the above meeting next Tuesday to collect all essential Projects Review documentation, discover your unit's space allocation and provide us with details of your student representative. If you have already selected your student reps, it would be beneficial for them to attend also.

Partners:

New Deal of the Mind
New Deal of the Mind (NDotM) has a simple objective. We want to boost the UK economy by developing jobs in the creative industries. NDotM has the support of leading figures in the arts, entrepreneurs, politicians from across the political spectrum and policy makers. All of us recognise the urgency of protecting, nurturing and investing in the arts if we are to prevent a generation of creative talent being lost to the recession.

NDotM grew from an article written in the New Statesman in January by Martin Bright, the magazine’s former political editor. Martin suggested that cultural elements of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which was introduced  by US President Franklin D Roosevelt’s during the 1930s Depression, could be adapted for the UK today. Martin’s article struck a chord and he was inundated with offers of support from prominent people in the arts and politicians from all parties. Within weeks, NDotM was officially launched at Number 11 Downing St and Jude Kelly had offered us space at London’s Southbank Centre.

AAIS
Architectural Association's Interprofessional Studio (AAIS) is a unique environment in which the impossible can happen. Today's creatives need to constantly reinvent themselves and their profession. They need to extent their scope of knowledge to create new opportunities for work or purely out of inquisitiveness.

The AA Interprofessional Studio launched in 2008/09 as a new course in the Architectural Association School of Architecture. Working in the in-between area of Art, Architecture and Performance and the arts, the AAIS is able to reach professions, partners and students that usually would not usually have the opportunities to study at the AA school. Applied projects within creative fields serve as generators for the years work and collaborations guarantee's a high level of focus, outcome and public participation. The AAIS offers itself as a forum for discussion beyond the immediate scope of the studio and as an interdisciplinary project office realising creative, collaborative work. The remarkably intense, super-fast, and almost impossible – but in the end richly successful – collaboration.

President, Alex Lifschutz, BSc(Social Sciences)
Vice Presidents: Julia Barfield, MBE RIBA
Hans-Henrik Lønberg, AADipl
Honorary Secretary, Christopher Libby, AADipl RIBA
Honorary Treasurer, Sadie Morgan, BA(Hons) MA(RCA)
Past President, Jim Eyre, OBE BA(Hons) AADipl RIBA

Ordinary Members (* indicating newly elected) for the new Council are:
John Andrews, AADipl
Daniel Aram, MA MBA
*Michael J P Davies, CBE AADipl MArch RIBA FRSA FRGS FICPD
David Jenkins, BA(Arch) DipArch RIBA FRSA
Julia King, AADipl
*Sophie Le Bourva, Ceng MIStructE
*Diana Periton, MPhil DipArch
*Kenneth Powell, MA HonFRIBA
Christina Smith
Rebecca Spencer
*Jerome Tsui
*Jane Wernick, BSc(Hons) FICE FIStructE FRSA

Mi-Voice Electoral Services acted as scrutineer for the 2010/2011 Council election. Votes were solicited via electronic and postal ballots to the 2,706 Architectural Association members eligible to vote. Voting closed at 5.00 on Friday 14 May.

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The AA is sad to inform members that AA Councillor Dennis Sharp passed away last week following a long battle with cancer.

After receiving his AA Diploma in 1957, Dennis was appointed Head of History Studies at the AA in 1968 and later served as the AA’s General Editor – he edited AA Quarterly from 1968 to 1982. As a long-serving member of the AA Council he held offices including Honorary Secretary and Vice President. Dennis championed architecture and architectural studies on a global scale, serving as chair of the International Committee of Architectural Critics since 1977; as Vice President of the RIBA (1991–93); and as co-founder of the RIBA Architecture Centre in 1992 (which he chaired until 1996). He authored and edited numerous books and translations on the history of architecture, as well as monographs. Dennis became a Life Member of the AA in 1996 and was awarded Honorary Membership in 2009 in recognition of his passionate support of the AA and his important contribution to the world of architecture.

The funeral will take place on Saturday 22 May and a memorial event has been planned at the AA for Thursday 1 July. For more information, please contact Alex Lorente in the AA Membership Office on +44 (0)20 7887 4074 or alex@aaschool.ac.uk. No flowers by request, donations may be made to the Architectural Association towards an annual Prize in memory of Dennis Sharp.