Introducing KieranTimberlake Music League
In anticipation of the AIA's Committee on the Environment (COTE®) Top Ten Awards submission deadline on October 26, KieranTimberlake staff have been contemplating how the Framework for Design Excellence principles can be interpreted beyond the built environment.
To initiate this thought exercise, the first KieranTimberlake Music League (KTML) was launched. Each week, staff from across the office would submit one song that they thought corresponds with or engages a specific principle.
After ten weeks, we compiled the playlists onto a public Spotify account. We invite you to listen, consider, and enjoy.
The COTE® Top Ten Award has become the industry's leading award program for rigorously examining both sustainability and design excellence. KieranTimberlake has previously earned five COTE® Top Ten Awards and is committed to confronting climate change, social inequity, and biodiversity loss on every project.
Week 1: Music for Integration
Focus topics include:
Beauty and delight
Connections with place, including climate, history, and people
Week 2: Music for Equitable Communities
Focus topics include:
Social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion
Community engagement and empowerment
Week 3: Music for Ecosystems
Focus topics include:
Reduce human impacts: light, noise, and heat
Nature-based solutions
Week 4: Music for Water
Focus topics include:
Climate change, water resilience, and equity
Reuse of greywater and/or blackwater
Check back next week for the Music for Economy playlist.