News
Paper: Overcoming Barriers to Implementing Sustainable Development Goals
We are pleased to send you Prof. Roderick Lawrence article on implementing SDGs and hope it is relevant for your ongoing work. It was only posted on-line Open Access this week. Please distribute to anyone interested in implementing sustainable development. The exact...
8TH MARCH: International Women’s Day
8TH MARCH: International Women's Day is a commemorative date that was made official by the United Nations in the 1970s. This date symbolizes the historic struggle of women to have their conditions equated to that of men. Initially, this date referred to the demand for...
Robert Sommer (26 April 1929 – 27 February 2021). Instead of making the world perfect; he only wanted to make it better.
Robert Sommer (26 April 1929 – 27 February 2021) was one of the great researchers and teachers in environmental psychology. While everybody knows about his seminal work in personal space, there were many more topics he researched and contributed to in his long career:...
What is IAPS?
Formed officially 35 years ago, but with intellectual roots dating back to the ‘60s in the architectural psychology movement, IAPS is a multidisciplinary and active association gathering researchers and practitioners from around the world, with a shared interest in people’s interaction with their environment. Psychology, sociology, geography, design, planning are only a few of the disciplines represented and for these and their representatives, IAPS serves both as a platform for disciplinary discussion, and as a platform for collaboration.
The digital library
A good starting point to get an idea of what we do though, is the IAPS Digital Library, which collects all the abstracts submitted at all IAPS Congresses and is free to browse. An invaluable resource!
The Networks
The Networks are interest and research groups formed by IAPS members. They carry out debates, discussion groups, publications, often posses their own website and organise symposia and conferences.
IAPS 2022 Conference
The ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, is very pleased to welcome you all to IAPS 2022 Conference in Lisbon, from the 4th to the 8th July 2022. Looking forward to seeing you! Watch the Conference video here!
There are several reasons why it is a good idea to join IAPS and become one of its numerous members.
IAPS is a lively international association of scholars and practitioners from the disciplines which share a fundamental interest in environment and behaviour studies. These include environmental psychology, architecture, geography, urban design, sociology, interior design, landscape, anthropology, planning and environmental management. The association fosters interdisciplinary study of the transactions and interactions between people and their socio-physical surroundings – including both built and natural environments.