The International Association of People-Environment Studies (IAPS), has been promoting the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between planning and social scientists for 35 years – above all between spatial planning, architecture, psychology, and sociology. IAPS was officially founded in 1981, although its origins can be traced back to a series of successful conferences in several European countries from 1969 to 1979.

The objectives of IAPS are:

  • To facilitate communication among those concerned with the relationships between people and their physical environment
  • To stimulate research and innovation for improving human well-being and the physical environment
  • To promote the integration of research, education, policy and practice

People-environment studies, originating from environmental psychology (Lewin, Barker, Brunswik), have always tried to close the "mind gaps" between natural sciences, engineering, arts, and social sciences by an epistemological approach that encompasses denotations (objects and techniques) as well as connotations (subjective social, cultural meanings).

Membership

Benefits of membership include:

  • The right to vote and stand for membership of the Board
  • Reduced fees for attending conferences and seminars
  • Free copies of the IAPS newsletter. This contains research summaries, articles, reviews, letters, lists of references, and general news of the research field
  • The right to be listed in and receive a copy of the Directory of IAPS members
  • Reduced subscription rates for specified journals

List of conferences

The biannual conference is the main event organised under auspices of the association. In the past years, the following conferences have been organised:

Place, CountryYearConferenceTheme
Dalandhui, UK1969AP1Architectural Psychology
Kingston, UK1970AP2Architectural Psychology
Lund, Sweden1973AP3Architectural Psychology
Surrey, UK1973AP4Psychology and the Built Environment
Sheffield, UK1975AP5Architectural Psychology
Strasbourg, France1976AP6Space Appropriation
Louvain La Neuve, Belgium1979IAPC 7Conflicting Experiences of Space
Surrey, UK1979IAPC 7Conflict and Narcissism
Barcelona, Spain1982IAPS 7Home-Environment. Man-Environment: Qualitative Aspects
Berlin, Germany1984IAPS 8Perspectives on Environment and Action
Haifa, Israel1986IAPS 9Environments in Transition
Delft, Netherlands1988IAPS 10Looking Back to the Future
Ankara, Turkey1990IAPS 11Culture-Space-History
Halkidiki, Greece1992IAPS 12Socio-environmental Metamorphoses
Manchester, UK1994IAPS 13The Urban Experiences
Stockholm, Sweden1996IAPS 14Evolving Environmental Ideals – Ways of Life, Values, Design Practices
Eindhoven, Netherlands1998IAPS 15Shifting Balances – Changing Roles In Policy, Research and Design
Paris, France2000IAPS 16Metropolis: Cities, Social Life and Sustainable Development
A Coruña, Spain2002IAPS 17Culture, Quality of Life and Globalization – Problems and Challenges for the New Millennium
Vienna, Austria2004IAPS 18Evaluation in Progress – Strategies for Environmental Research and Implementation
Alexandria, Egypt2006IAPS 19Environment, Health and Sustainable Development
Rome, Italy2008IAPS 20Urban diversities, Biosphere and Well-being
Leipzig, Germany2010IAPS 21Vulnerability, Risk and Complexity: Impacts of global Change on Human Habitats
Glasgow, UK2012IAPS 22Human experience in the natural and built environment: implications for research, policy and practice
Timișoara, Romania2014IAPS 23Transitions to sustainable societies: Designing research and policies for changing lifestyles and communities
Lund, Sweden2016IAPS 24The human being at home, work and leisure. Sustainable use and development of indoor and outdoor spaces in late modern everyday life

Post conference publications

IAPS Digital Library

A database of all 4,400 abstracts from conferences since 1969, which permits a full-text search through the history of environmental psychology.

Notable people

References

  1. "Hall of fame". IAPS Association (in French). Retrieved 27 April 2023.
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