The Faculty of Environmental Design Students Association's Student Research Conference is a student-generated and student-designed conference featuring leading edge student research from various environmental design disciplines including urban design, planning, industrial design, environmental science and architecture. The inaugural conference, "Behind the Orange Wall", plays on the Faculty of Environmental Design's famous orange wall, both celebrating EVDS work and demystifying it.  All
presentations are held on the University of Calgary campus and are open to the public.

Wednesday March 12:
5-7 pm Conference poster session and gallery reception (EVDS Gallery: Professional Faculties 2145)

Thursday March 13:
9:30-5 pm Student research presentations (Professional Faculties 2165)
7-8:30 pm Keynote speaker Alex Steffen (Education Tower 179 - rush seating)

Alex Steffen has been the Executive Editor of Worldchanging since he co-founded the organization in 2003. Worldchanging has become the most widely read sustainability-related publication on the internet, with an archive of articles by the world's leading thinkers. It's played an important role in revealing formerly obscure innovations and groundbreaking ideas, thereby pushing forward the sustainability movement and assisting in the growth of its network. The critically acclaimed site won the Utne Independent Press Award in 2004, and was nominated for Webby's (the Oscars of the Net) for Best Blog and Best Magazine, as well as for Bloggies for Best Writing and Best Group Weblog.