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MEMBER
CHAIRS OF COUNCIL
The
role of the advisor on the Institute Council is to promote and encourage
the Institute. The purpose of the Council is to assist in grantsmanship
efforts for the Institute and aid in interpreting the Institute’s
professional and societal role in hospitality and tourism, the arts, planning,
civic leadership and relevance to design and architecture. The Institute
Advisory Council (IAC) is a seventy-seven member resource group for the
Institute of Destination Architects and Designers. Some members of the Council
provide advice on pedagogical and educational issues, others assist in the
Institute’s execution of effective dissemination of information to
the public and professions at large. Some members work to strengthen dialog
within their professional areas, reflecting on the design, research, development
and administration of destinations. The
Advisory Council serves to recommend strategies that will facilitate the
Institute’s product cluster in remaining understandable, useable,
accessible, reliable and accountable. It is also incumbent that advisors
appreciate the scope and holistic focus of the Institute to meet the creative,
cultural, economic and ecological needs of people in the destination landscape.
The following IDAD/IAC interest groups exist:
Hospitality,
Travel and Tourism Management
Arts Administration
Small Town Design and Art Promotion
Theatre Architecture and Scenography
Performance and Environmental Art
Land and Building Architecture
Theme and Amusement Design
Sporting and Event Planning
Exhibit and Interior Design
Hotel and Facilities Design
Marine and Coastal Space Planning
International Law and Policy
 Dr.
Muzaffer Uysal, IDAD Councilman
IDAD/Councilman-Chair
Hospitality, Travel and Tourism Management
Dr.
Uysal received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, and an MBA from
the University of New Haven and a BS from Ankara Academy of Economics
& Commercial Sciences. Dr. Uysal has extensive experience in the
travel and tourism field, authoring or co-authoring a significant number
of articles in tourism journals, proceedings, book chapters, and three
monographs relating to different aspects of tourism marketing, demand/supply
interaction and international tourism. He also has conducted workshops
and seminars on similar topics and field research in several countries.
Dr. Uysal serves as co-editor of Tourism Analysis: An Interdisciplinary
journal and Advances in Tourism Application Series. In addition, he
sits on the editorial boards of six journals, including Journal of Travel
Research, and Annals of Tourism Research as resource editor.
Steve Bickley, IDAD Councilman
IDAD/Councilman-Chair
Performance and Environmental Art
Designer
Steve Bickley received his Art and Design, BFA East Carolina University,
MFA University of Georgia. Professional activities in academic Architecture
and Urban Studies, practicing designer, sculpture, environmental art,
performance art. Recipient/ Winner of National Endowment for the Arts
Sponsored Competitions.
 Anna
MacBean , IDAD Councilman/ Director
IDAD/Councilman-Director/Founder
With a background
that includes natural resources, recreation, landscape architecture and
education, Anna MacBean keenly recognizes the limited supply of desirable
leisure destinations. As expeditionary director, she strives to reconcile
the competing entities in these special places. Her vision for design
of destinations includes long-term effectiveness of all human constructs,
while accepting the dynamic nature of environments, both developed and
pristine. The ultimate goal of her efforts is to understand the parameters
that determine desirable people-places and apply that knowledge to maximize
the value of destination design.
 Ken
Mark MacBean , IDAD Councilman/ Director
IDAD/Councilman-Director/Founder
Ken Mark
MacBean is an architect, designer, and scientist by training. An innovative
social entrepreneur, he founded the Institute of Destination Architects
and Designers. He is the principal of MacBean Design East, a design consultancy.
He is considered by many authorities to have a unique design philosophy;
his discourse on which has been heralded as "enlightening and wonderful"
by such authors as Time-Warner. He receives invitations to many design
venues internationally, including design summit developers, some of which
have placed his name on the international roster of top architects and
planners.
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