OUR MISSION IS TO INSPIRE AND EMPOWER COMMUNITY-DRIVEN SOCIAL IMPACT DESIGN
The Association La Voûte Nubienne
Can resurrecting building techniques from antiquity solve a West African housing crisis? West Africans face unique challenges in sourcing materials for sustainable, cost-efficient housing. In response, The Association la Voûte Nubienne (“AVN”) is bringing back an ages old technique: mud brick.
Can resurrecting building techniques from antiquity solve a West African housing crisis?
Asian Coalition for Housing Rights
Is the Right to Housing Real? The Asian Coalition is a broad coalition of grassroots organizations, NGOs, architects and engineers currently working in 215 cities across Asia.
Is the Right to Housing Real?
Inteligencias Colectivas
What happens when traditional and modern design techniques are blended? Inteligencias Colectivas focuses on the ‘fringe’ of construction practice. Between highly mechanized construction and ancient methods are blended practices with their own wisdom. Inteligencias Colectivas¬ collects, collates and shares these.
What happens when traditional and modern design techniques are blended?
Gyaw Gyaw
Can architecture help stateless people put down roots? Gyaw Gyaw works with the vulnerable Karen people at the Myanmar/Thai border. It reduces their dependence on foreign aid via resilient, low cost, architectural projects built with community input.
Can architecture help stateless people put down roots?
Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove di Metropoliz
Can a former salami factory be a home, gallery, film set and a commentary on eviction? Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove di Metropoliz is simultaneously a gallery, film project, home for 200 displaced people and a profound social and political commentary on a common problem: eviction.
Can a former salami factory be a home, gallery, film set and a commentary on eviction?
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.
