Research Pavilion Research Articles

Exploring Ecological Relationality Through Architectural Practice

This practice-led research article explores how post-humanist and eco-feminist perspectives of entanglement and relationality challenge human exceptionalism as a basis for making architecture in the process of the Alusta research pavilion. Multisensory spatial experience, material circulation and more-than-human temporalities are explored through building a temporary pavilion for multispecies encounters in an urban museum setting. Reflecting on the project, an architectural space is understood as a continuous process of becoming enacted by various human and nonhuman forces instead of as a stable object with a sole human author. Architecture is reimagined as part of the web of care sustaining all life.

Rethinking Lightweight: Exploration Of Circular Design Strategies In Temporary Structures

The increasing scarcity of materials in the building industry is the result of many years of exploitation of limited resources. How can our design and construction methods encourage the circular use of materials and components to address this problem? This paper contrasts circular design principles with the design philosophy of lightweight structures to explore their potential for sustainable development. Investigation of these two design concepts reveal the holistic approach in both principles, so that circular design can be derived from lightweight design principles. However, efficient material use as a guiding criterion in lightweight structures alone is not sufficient to implement circular design. Closing material loops can only be achieved by including dismantling and recycling in the design process. This concept is discussed by means of a case study. The research pavilion presented illustrates how rethinking of lightweight structures is possible.

Structural design, optimization and detailing of the BUGA fibre pavilion

The BUGA fibre pavilion built in April 2019 at the Bundesgartenschau in Heilbronn, Germany, is the most recent coreless fibre winding research pavilion developed from the collaboration between ICD/ITKE at the University of Stuttgart. The research goal is to create lightweight and high-performance lattice composite structures through robotic fabrication. The pavilion is composed of 60 carbon and glass fibre components, and is covered by a prestressed ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) membrane. Each of the components is hollow in section and bone-like in shape. They are joined through steel connectors at the intersecting nodes where the membrane is also supported through steel poles. The components are fabricated by coreless filament winding (CFW), a technique where fibre filaments impregnated with resin are wound freely between two rotating scaffolds by a robotic arm. This novel structural system constitutes a challenge for the designer when proving and documenting the load-carrying capacity of the design. This paper outlines and elaborates on the core methods and workflows followed for the structural design, optimization and detailing of the BUGA fibre pavilion.

Sensory excursion as a site of encounter

In this exposition I discuss a human’s relationship with the environment, in terms of sensation and encounter. I describe my artistic practice implemented with the artist group Ajauksia, as a member of it. We, as a group, explore various sensory encounters with the environment through sensory exercises and, to that end, organize sensory excursions in different urban environments. We participated in the Research Pavilion # 3 (RP #3), coordinated by the University of the Arts Helsinki in the context of the Venice Biennale. Here I describe the work of Ajauksia within the project, from my perspective. I join in the theme of this Ruukku publication, ecologies of practice, by describing how we developed sustainable modes of artistic research in and through processes of collaborating, performing and discussing. Now, after the project, I reflect on the ideas, experiences and opportunities for interaction with different parties. I focus in particular on the two very different environments where we worked, the Kontula suburb of Helsinki and the island of Giudecca, Venice, where Research Pavilion #3 was located.

Reading on Reading: Ecologies of Reading

Reading on Reading is a series of experimental reading practices developed collaboratively by Emma Cocker, Cordula Daus and Lena Séraphin whilst working together in the Research Pavilion #3, Venice, 2019, for exploring what alternative modes of sense making are produced when reading is undertaken artistically, as an aesthetic activity. Reading on Reading explores three interrelated foci: How can aesthetic practices of reading: (1) Shed new light on the phenomenology (or how-ness) of reading? (2) Transform the often-solitary activity of reading into a shared or communal act — and explore what modes of sociality, solidarity and emergent ‘we’ emerge therein? (3) Operate as a disruptive process unsettling normative conventions of reading through focus on the poetic, affective and material dimensions of readerly experience? Within this artistic research collaboration, we consider the act of reading beyond the relation of the reader to a text read, as a micro-political or ethico-aesthetic practice through which to re-consider — perhaps even re-organise — the relations between self and other(s), self and world. Drawing upon Félix Guattari’s notion of ecosophy with its three ecological registers of environment, social relations and human subjectivity, in this exposition we consider how the modest practice of reading together could contribute to a wider ethico-aesthetic project: for cultivating shared poetics of attention, for the re-sensing of language through embodied vocalisation, for tending to the temporary gatherings of ‘we’ that reading together affords. The aim of this exposition is to share the reading practices tested and explored in and through the collaboration of three artist researchers, alongside reflection on the questions and concerns emerging within this enquiry. Whilst operating as a document or archive of a specifically time-bound research activity, the intention is that our reading practices have scope to be activated by other readers.

Traces from the Anthropocene: Working with Soil

Awareness of environmental issues, such as climate change and microplastics, has raised general concern about the state of the environment. Only recently has the discussion tackled the consequences of the human imprint in the contamination of the soil appropriately. In this artistic research, we use soil as the material mediator to explore and communicate the intertwined relationship between humans and the environment. This study combines environmental research with ceramic practice. We discuss how ceramic practitioners can use their knowledge and skill to meaningfully engage in the environmental discourse. The study was inspired by the call for Research Pavilion #3, which was organised by the University of the Arts, Helsinki, to be a place for ongoing artistic research during May-August 2019 in the context of the Venice Biennale. Working with Soil was presented as an ongoing research project taking place before and during the high season of Research Pavilion #3 in one of the six research cells: Traces from the Anthropocene.

EPISTEMIC BUGS AT WORLDMAKING

This text-based exposition looks at epistemic affordances embedded in the insect condition. Drawing from the scientific study of insects, my project INSECTS AMONG US sets out to fathom insects’ ephemeral existence through art works. A rich media presentation of the project is available in the RC: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/474888/514952. INSECTS AMONG US was exhibited at the Helsinki Uniarts Research Pavilion 2019 on Giudecca Island in Venice. The Pavilion housed a series of small-scale site-specific installations that visually and acoustically mediated the eerie life worlds of insects to human ears and eyes.

From foaming exercises to scenarios of co-existencies – anticipating emancipatory practices of space

The structure and dynamics of worldly spaces are neighbourhoodly. In them, different kinds of life forms are connected, in a sharing relation, whether they like it or not. The other facet of the same coin is co-isolation and a state of shared closure. Any position from loving and intimate to aggressive or forced, from solidarity to imprisonment, is detached to and depicted through spatial relations. Infected by the “interpretation of foams” in the final volume of Peter Sloterdijk’s Spheres trilogy, I chose to take foam architecture onto a surgical table and take a closer look at its spatial, material, metaphorical and conceptual implications. I became driven in making inquieries on co-joined spatiality characterized by the “ontological nervousness of the co-existent, the other, the outer”.[1] The Foaming Exercises installation was part of one of the research cells of the Research Pavilion #3 and became the first part of an (ongoing) examination of spatial co-existencies. Since then, the study has evolved into an ongoing further study on co-joined spatialities in relation to the emancipatory potential of spatial practices in urban context.

Biennale 2019: Art and Science

Numerous projects of the 58th Venice Biennale are dedicated to science-related themes. The Austrian Pavilion addresses questions at the interface between art and philosophy, the Icelandic Pavilion is dedicated to the psychological effects of colours. Videos and installations in the Canadian and Greek Pavilions deal with traditions in historiography. The Research Pavilion focuses on the relationship between art and ecology. Installations and large-scale sculptures in the Central Pavilion and the Arsenale reflect the close collaboration between artists, scientists and engineers.

Structural design of a lattice composite cantilever

The ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2016/2017 is the most recent in the series of experimental building demonstrators developed by the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and the Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) at the University of Stuttgart. The completed structure is a 12 m long cantilevering lattice-composite shell that was wound in one piece by a multi-machine fabrication system using coreless filament winding. To realise such a structure through this fabrication process involved a negotiation between architectural design, structural requirements and fabrication constraints. The structural design process was divided into two steps. A shell model was used to evaluate possible geometries in the initial negotiation between architectural design and fabrication constraints. In order to approximate the highly anisotropic material behaviour of fibre reinforced polymers, substitute material properties had to be determined in physical tests. In the second step the actual fibre layup was analysed using a detailed beam-element model. The main load bearing fibre bundles were directly analysed in cross section and position. As-built and intended geometry were constantly compared and the feedback was used to refine the finite element analysis during fabrication. This paper covers the aspects mentioned and gives an outlook on further possibilities of this design and fabrication approach.

Venice Biennale 2017: Art and Science

The 57th Venice Biennale presents a broad range of projects related to science and art. The Austrian Pavilion deals with issues of self-perception and social communication, the central messages are conveyed by mirror objects and light installations. In its video work, the Greek Pavilion addresses basic questions of ethics and morality. The workshops and exhibitions in the Research Pavilion aim at promoting the dialogue between art and scientific research regarding topics such as virtual reality.

DigDesFab15 Research Pavilion

This full-scale research pavilion exercises the application of timber and polymer concrete in architectural production (Fig. 1). It attempts to develop and test a new hybrid construction technique using composite joints (as introduced in Schober, 2014) within a modular geometric system and no need for formwork. The structure was designed and erected by students and instructors of the Digital Design and Full Scale Fabrication seminar taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. CNC milled, 3-layer spruce laminated timber boards are used for construction, which are temporarily fixed, then rigidized with polymer concrete. The cured composite node proves high structural capabilities, as polymer concrete withstands both pressure and tensile forces, and the bond between the materials is as strong as the wood itself. Compared to traditional timber construction, no metal bolting is needed for the creation of the node, while at the same time the node geometry becomes more flexible, meaning any three-dimensional layout can be produced, as long as a temporary containment and fixation can be implemented until the chemical curing process is completed (Becker, Schober, Weber, 2016). The geometry is developed as an interpretation of the Zollinger (Menges A. et al., 2016) grid, where members originally are of twice the grid length (Fig. 2) and reciprocally reliant on each other (Fig. 3). Instead, every second grid cell is made a joint node when cast out with concrete, making the structural members a lost formwork at the same time (Fig. 4). Double-layering each makes it possible to cast all 122 nodes of the pavilion structure separately and flat-bolt them together on-site with metal screws. The software plugin RhinoVault is used as a design tool to produce an efficient, compression only basic shell surface, although the subsequent imposition of the grid system introduces eccentricities and local imperfections. A parametric model in Rhinoceros and Grasshopper tests various subdivision densities and node sizes, and evaluates the overall performance with the structural analysis tool Karamba. The different heights of the lamellas in the structure arise from the analysis and parametric interpretation of stresses under vertical and horizontal loading.

Odbudowa gmachu doświadczalnego Szkoły Głównej Handlowej w Warszawie po II wojnie światowej

In 2008 the Campus of the Warsaw School of Economics (SGH) was entered into the register of monuments. The Research Pavilion, so called Building A, is the oldest of the campus buildings. It was constructed between WWI and WWII according to the design of Jan Koszczyc-Witkiewicz, one of the most renowned contemporary architects. During WWII, immediately after the end of the Warsaw Uprising, the Germans burnt down this building despite the signed capitulation agreement guaranteeing the protection of Polish national heritage monuments. The building accommodated at that time the archives of Polish pre-war state institutions, which were completely destroyed. The building was reconstructed after the WWII as a results of the efforts of the university authorities and personal involvement of Professor Stanisław Skrzywan. The paper presents the process of reconstruction of the listed building based on archive sources - the Archives of the capital city of Warsaw (the archives of the Capital Reconstruction Bureau)and SGH Archives (the minutes from meetings of the SGH Senate), the memoires and contemporary press

Abstract A22: Programmatic implementation of hepatocellular carcinoma prevention through hepatitis C testing, secondary prevention, and treatment for a medically and minority underserved population

Abstract This study assessed the programmatic implementation of a multi-disciplinary program to prevent hepatocellular carcinoma through hepatitis C (HCV) testing, secondary prevention among diagnosed individuals (defined as interventions that prevent further progression of liver disease), and treatment within a medically and minority underserved clinic. The Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion (LCRP) at St. Joseph's/Candler Health System is a Community Cancer Center and regional destination for cancer care in coastal Georgia. LCRP disparities efforts focus on cancer prevention, screening, and facilitating access to cancer care at two clinics for underserved and uninsured, low-income, predominately African American and Hispanic populations. Because the primary cause of hepatocellular carcinoma is cirrhosis from chronic hepatitis infection, in 2014 the LCRP began implementing Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations for HCV testing as a cancer prevention activity at the clinics. As HCV patients were identified, it became clear that disease specific protocols needed to be developed in order to improve nurse practitioners' clinical practice. Barriers identified and addressed during program implementation included: 1) perception that expensive HCV treatment is inaccessible for uninsured patients, 2) lack of knowledge of CDC clinical testing guidelines resulting in inaccurate HCV diagnosis 3) lack of knowledge of secondary prevention and treatment leading to inappropriate clinical care for HCV+ patients, and 4) under-utilization of Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and other data tracking tools to enhance clinical care. The LCRP and clinical team identified available community and statewide resources, physician champions, and education resources. A multi-disciplinary team developed protocols for secondary prevention activities while a clinical team implemented clinical testing and treatment algorithms using CDC, American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), and Infectious Diseases Society of American (IDSA) guidelines. These initiatives are consistent with CDC efforts to move HCV management to community-based health-care providers within primary care with supportive training and supervision by HCV care specialists. The clinic conducted a baseline chart audit of patients with HCV documented in their medical record. At baseline, CDC testing algorithms to confirm diagnosis were followed in 14% of patients who received the initial HCV+ antibody test. Six months after implementation of testing algorithms and other clinical and programmatic improvements, 44% of birth cohort patients (patients born between 1945 and 1964) were screened in compliance with CDC guidelines. Average age of HCV+ patients was 51, 58% were African American, 41% Caucasian, 62% female, and 38% male. Secondary prevention activities including hepatitis A & B vaccines, referral for alcohol and/or substance abuse counseling, depression and mental health screening, and identification of prevention and/or treatment barriers were initiated during the first six months of 2014 with 34% of HCV+ patients. Prevention activities conducted concurrently with treatment planning. Nurse practitioners at the clinic obtained co-management HCV treatment support from an internal medicine and primary care physician. This cancer prevention program demonstrated improvement in HCV testing, prevention, and treatment within a primary-care nurse-managed community clinic. The inter-disciplinary approach outlined in this model utilized evidence based guidelines and diagnostic algorithms. Application of secondary prevention activities and effective data tracking increased overall programmatic success, and ultimately contributes to the prevention of hepatocellular carcinoma among disparate populations. Citation Format: Sarah E. Dobra, Nidsa Baker, Lesley Miller, Lauren Stokes. Programmatic implementation of hepatocellular carcinoma prevention through hepatitis C testing, secondary prevention, and treatment for a medically and minority underserved population. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Eighth AACR Conference on The Science of Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved; Nov 13-16, 2015; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2016;25(3 Suppl):Abstract nr A22.

Losing Hold of Experimenting

In his description of the tenet of the 56th Venice Biennale All the Worlds’ Futures (2015), curator Okwui Enwezor builds a thought-provoking bridge across current historical ruptures in the fields of art, culture, politics and economics, and Walter Benjamin’s famous description of the Angelus Novus, the Angel of History, who is so confused about the storm of progress blowing from paradise that she can only fly backwards towards the future, her eyes persistently stuck on the events of the past. By bringing this mythological premodern figure to the current global landscape with its unforeseen number of refugees and immigrants, environmental upsets, chaos, dystopia, and promise of change, Enwezor makes visible why the challenge of seeking new realities, truths and futures – that we have learned to link with the idea of experimenting – is not a mere cliche of utopian modernity, but even some sort of imperative of the present time that we simply cannot stop pondering or practicing. Yet, in the age of post-colonialism, post-modernism, and post-humanism that have all questioned the modern labels of ‘progress,’ ‘objectivity,’ ‘potentiality,’ and the ‘new,’ we are also painfully aware that we are ‘living in the end times’ as Slavoj Zizek expresses it, and that there is not necessarily anyone waiting for us at the end of history any more. In the midst of these puzzling considerations, many avant-garde artistresearchers have started to consider experimentality from partly new perspectives aiming not so much at building new laboratories and showrooms for (white, elitist, and male-centered) Enlightenment thought, but to discuss and practice various kinds of experimental activities in ways that pay homage to unknown others, be they other human beings or some other groups of animals, spirits, dark material, trees, air, historical ghosts, or whatever. Along this development, the criteria for experimenting have also changed, even radically. The positivist and utopian tones of modernity have largely been replaced by epistemologically more complex, even messy, forms of knowing, participating and presenting, that now also guide many activities of art and science. As Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze suggest, the potentiality inherent in this ‘new logic’ can be developed further only by a refusal to represent issues and phenomena that in themselves escape representation (Agamben 1999). In other words, we need to understand that ‘potentiality,’ be it artistic, scientific or whatever, must remain ‘enigmatic yet non-arbitrary; in short, a new logic, definitely a logic, but one that grasps the innermost depths of life and death without leading us back to reason.’ (Deleuze 1997: 82) Giving up overtly rationalized forms of reasoning and experimenting has also led to rethink the methodologies of both art and science. As Brian Massumi emphasizes, we should no longer label or categorize newness and innovation in already existing labels and concepts, especially if we tend to reproduce the social worlds of predetermined order and discourses of methodological certainty. 1 The new methodology of experimenting might also be described in terms of ‘ungrounded,’ ‘fluid,’ or ‘groundless’ methodology, for it seeks no longer merely rational and linear rules for knowing, but aims instead to stimulate deeper and also more engaged ways to reflect, participate, and accommodate anticipated social and existential situations and preferred spatial and timely dimensions. 2 Seen in this way, experimenting becomes differentiated also from the ‘normal’ – or normality acts in this new context no longer as a gradient for the ‘new,’ but more like a cut-off point actually preventing all experimenting, including from falling or failing. Against this background, one might think that the decision to choose ‘experimentation’ in 2015 as the main theme for the 1st Artistic Research Pavilion in Venice was not only topical and important, but at the same time extremely challenging, even risky. Would the curators and initiators of the research pavilion

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2013‐14: Modular Coreless Filament Winding Based on Beetle Elytra

The ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2013‐14, presented here by Moritz Doerstelmann, Jan Knippers, Achim Menges, Stefana Parascho, Marshall Prado and Tobias Schwinn of the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) research team at the University of Stuttgart, is based on biological lightweight construction principles. It demonstrates how the development of integrative processes of design computation, simulation and robotic fabrication enable the simultaneous exploration of novel design possibilities, constructional effectiveness and robustness through the expression of material characteristics.

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2012: Coreless Filament Winding Based on the Morphological Principles of an Arthropod Exoskeleton

Advanced design, simulation and fabrication technologies facilitate the exploration and transferring of the morphological principles of fibrous systems from biology to technology. The ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2012 pioneered such an approach for architecture. Jan Knippers, Riccardo La Magna, Achim Menges, Steffen Reichert, Tobias Schwinn and Frédéric Waimer of the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) research team at the University of Stuttgart describe how they approached the design of the pavilion, which is located on the school's campus.

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2014–15: Fibre Placement on a Pneumatic Body Based on a Water Spider Web

Process‐based biomimetics focuses on the transfer of biological principles to architectural construction. To realise the ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2014 ‐15, presented here by Moritz Doerstelmann, Jan Knippers, Valentin Koslowski, Achim Menges, Marshall Prado, Gundula Schieber and Lauren Vasey of the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) research team at the University of Stuttgart, sensor‐driven robotic fabrication was combined with advanced design computation and simulation. This enabled the construction of an architectural fibre structure on a pneumatic mould, drawing on the complex design of the web of a water spider.

Textile Reinforced Lightweight Shells

Modern architecture is dominated by the tendency to design organically shaped filigree buildings. The resource and energy efficient construction of multifunctional buildings is as important as a broad variety of possible shapes. Multi-material support structures and shell constructions in lightweight design that also take over e. g. lighting and monitoring are needed for these purposes. Textile reinforced lightweight shell structures have been developed at Technische Universität Chemnitz within the scope of research projects. They consist of a hybrid material from carbon-fiber-reinforced concrete and glass-fiber-reinforced plastic. Thanks to the coupling of the positive material characteristics, the combination of two different composite materials results in a hybrid material with a total thickness of 15 mm, which has a high fatigue strength (XF4) and surface quality (exposed concrete). Furthermore, the hybrid is characterized by excellent compressive strength (120 MPa) and bending tensile strength (150 MPa), low susceptibility to corrosion and free formability. Therefore, it is highly suitable for thin-walled filigree lightweight shell structures. A research pavilion with a size of 4 x 4 x 3 m3 (l x w x h), made from textile reinforced lightweight shells, was built on the campus of TU Chemnitz, to test the theoretical investigations. Specially developed tensile sensors for the active lighting and determination of the elongations were integrated into the different layers. This aimed at an online-monitoring of the shell support structure.

Abstract B75: Referral and completion rates for colorectal cancer screening with fecal immunochemical test (FIT) in a medical home for underserved populations

Abstract This study assessed the referral and completion rates of colorectal cancer screening with fecal immunochemical test (FIT) in a primary care medical home serving an underserved population. The Good Samaritan Clinic (Clinic) provides medical care to over 600 uninsured clients annually and is staffed by volunteer health care providers (Providers). All clients have an income at or below 200 % of the Federal Poverty Line; 63.8 % are Latino or Hispanic, 22.3 % are non-Hispanic Caucasians, and 10.1 % are African American. Acute client care for co-morbidities such as hypertension and uncontrolled diabetes is often the focus of clinical visits, thus limiting health promotion referrals, including routine cancer screenings. To promote evidence-based recommended cancer screenings the Clinic and the Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion utilized guidelines from the American Cancer Society, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network to create a Cancer Assessment Tool (CAT) with age and sex appropriate screenings for breast, cervical, prostate, colorectal, and head and neck cancers. This cancer screening intervention was implemented in March 2013. During clinic visits, Providers used the CAT to review age and sex recommended cancer screenings and then, based on the CAT, referred clients as indicated. For example, if colorectal cancer screening was indicated based on age or family history, the CAT prompted the Provider to give the client a FIT to take home and to also counsel the client on how to collect the sample and return the test. No other interventions to promote FIT referral, FIT completion, or other colorectal screening methods were implemented during this time. To evaluate Provider FIT referrals and client FIT return compliance, data on CAT implementation was collected from March 28 – July 31, 2013. Measurements collected included the number of clients eligible for age-appropriate colorectal cancer screening; the number of clients with whom the CAT was completed; the number of clients given FIT; the number of FIT returned; and the number of positive FIT. Providers utilized the CAT to consider screening for colorectal cancer based on age and family history with 25.5 % (110) of the 431 total clients seen at the Clinic during this time period. Review of medical records indicate that 34.8 % (150) of total clients met age only criteria (over age 50) for colorectal cancer screening. Of the 150 total age-eligible clients (not considering additional clients with family history), 44.7 % (67) were referred for colorectal screening and were given a take-home FIT. Of the 67 clients given a FIT, 53.7 % (36) returned the results, resulting in a FIT completion rate of 24 % of all 150 age-eligible clients. 100 % (36) of FIT exams returned were negative. FIT drop-off occurred at both the provider referral level (55.3 % non-referral rate) and the client completion level (46.3 % non-completion rate). Based on these drop-off points several provider and client-based interventions recommended by the Guide to Community Preventive Services (Community Guide) may support improved colorectal cancer screening completion. First, strengthening provider-based interventions such as provider feedback and reminder systems so that the CAT is utilized for all client visits may support increased referral for FIT screening. Second, client-based interventions such as one-on-one education, client reminders such as follow-up phone calls, and reducing structural barriers such as putting postage stamps on the FIT may support client compliance to complete and return the FIT. Potential exists to conduct similar analysis of the CAT with breast, cervical, prostate, and head and neck cancers. Citation Format: Sarah Dobra, Krista Aliffi, Sandra Bond. Referral and completion rates for colorectal cancer screening with fecal immunochemical test (FIT) in a medical home for underserved populations. [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the Sixth AACR Conference: The Science of Cancer Health Disparities; Dec 6–9, 2013; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2014;23(11 Suppl):Abstract nr B75. doi:10.1158/1538-7755.DISP13-B75