Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) is a national non-profit organization of architects, designers, planners and related professionals. We are committed to correcting the imbalance between the need to provide for the common defense and the need to promote the well being of all our citizens. ADPSR's efforts are directed towards arms reduction, protection of the natural and built environment and socially responsible development.
ADPSR has more than a dozen chapters across the United States. Originally founded in 1984 in response to proliferation of nuclear arms, by 1990 we had broadened our agenda. We now link disarmament to improving the environmental and social crises that grew out of military excesses. We are recognized nationally and internationally as the representative of our professions on these issues

Objectives:
LEADERSHIP: To provide, as professionals trained to shape the built environment, a non-partisan forum for debating the future physicial development of our world, especially environmentally sound, socially responsible development,
EDUCATION: To inform colleagues, students and our fellow citizens of the injustice and the damage, especially to the physical environment, caused by short-sighted government policies; to raise public awareness of socially resonsible design and planning
ADVOCACY: To endorse organization and programs aimed at cutting back wasteful military spending; to urge reinvestment of those savings in socially responsible domestic programs.

Chicago Chapter Members:
Tom Forman
Chris Goode
Michelle Halle
Jack Hartrey
Alan Johnson
David Jones
Susan King
Rachel Leibowitz
Dan Miller
Sam Marts
Robert Foulkes
Richard Monastra
David Offenberg
Basil Tiritilli
Mary Welsh
Julie Siegel
Julie Cowan
Ellen Galland
Steve Grant