OUR MISSION IS TO INSPIRE AND EMPOWER COMMUNITY-DRIVEN SOCIAL IMPACT DESIGN
RootStudio
How do we design with scarcity? Oaxaca City Mexico based Root Studio is a multidisciplinary design studio that uses locally sourced materials and techniques to create structures and housing for communities in need.
How do we design with scarcity?
USINA CTAH
Can the built environment escape a profit-driven motive? USINA Centro de Trabalhos para o Ambiente Habitado is a Brazilian group that works across disciplines to assist working people in planning and developing of their own communities.
Can the built environment escape a profit-driven motive?
Turquoise Mountain
Can revitalizing traditional crafts bring economic stability to areas of conflict? Non profit Turquoise Mountain regenerates urban areas and stimulates the traditional craft industry in Afghanistan, Myanmar and Saudi Arabia. It revives traditional skills, creates jobs and business development opportunities.
Can revitalizing traditional crafts bring economic stability to areas of conflict?
Build Change
What is needed to rebuild resiliently after a disaster? Denver-based non-profit Build Change designs disaster-resistant houses and schools for emerging nations, then trains builders, homeowners, engineers and government officials to build them using simple, culturally appropriate, and cost-effective techniques.
What is needed to rebuild resiliently after a disaster?
Asiye eTafuleni
Can design reclaim public space? Asiye eTafuleni is a South African NGO set up to support informal traders, market vendors, and others who use public space in their work.
Can design reclaim public space?
Podcasts
Social Design Insights podcast. Conversations with the leading voices of the social design movement.
The Curry Stone Design Foundation is a design studio that equips underserved and marginalized communities with methods to design, develop and improve their own built environments.
Launched in India in 2016, CDSF is a true collective of social design practices, architects and civic planners that work collaboratively with communities in need.
Social Design Insights is a weekly podcast of conversations with leading designers who discuss innovative projects and practices that use design to address pressing social justice issues.
Hosted by Eric Cesal, Produced by Baruch Zeichner.
