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Borders

01-02 | Reimagining the Border, Part 1 & 2

Podcast
Should designers be outlaws? Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman of Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman discuss their practice at the Tijuana/San Diego border and how design transcends politics.
  • Community Development

110 | Cities of the Future, Cities of the Past

Podcast
Engaging + Reframing the 'Refugee' Crisis Kilian Kleinschmidt of IPA/Swixtboard is an internationally regarded expert in international development, emergency response, and resource mobilization.
  • Community Development

111 | Adapting our Global Institutions to Today’s Challenges

Podcast
Engaging + Reframing the 'Refugee' Crisis Dr. Nina Hall is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Relations, where she studies the global organizations that preside over issues of climate change, migration and displacement.
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112 | Giving Migrants a Voice

Podcast
Engaging + Reframing the 'Refugee' Crisis Mariam Chazalnoel of IOM joins us to discuss how to advance the topic of migration within the current Climate Change dialogue
  • Community Development

113 | Opening the World to Refugees

Podcast
Engaging + Reframing the 'Refugee' Crisis The Refugee Academy is a Berlin-based non-profit that creates learning spaces for refugees seeking to assimilate.
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114 | Hacking Tech to Assist Refugees

Podcast
Engaging + Reframing the 'Refugee' Crisis Tasha Freidus of NeedsList joins us to discuss tech solutions to humanitarian crises.
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115 | Designing for Women & Girls

Podcast
Engaging + Reframing the 'Refugee' Crisis Anna Meddaugh joins us to talk about the origins and development of The Night Loo, a reusable personal urinal designed for women and girls in refugee camps.
  • Conflict and Disaster

116 | This is Architecture as Well

Podcast
Engaging + Reframing the 'Refugee' Crisis Rania Qawasma of Architecture for Refugees joins us to discuss what designers can do to help welcome refugees.
  • Community Development

33-34 | Finding Plenty in a World of Scarcity, Part 1 & 2

Podcast
Social Design Circle Honoree
How do we design with scarcity? Line Ramstad discusses the origin of Gyaw Gyaw and introduces their methods.
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  • Environment

59 | Architecture at the Border of Design and Politics

Podcast
How do we design resistance? Ronald Rael is an applied architectural researcher, design activist, author, and thought leader in the fields of additive manufacturing and earthen architecture.
  • Advocacy

66-67 | Fronts: Security in the Developing World, Part 1 & 2

Podcast
How do we design resistance? Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller of Agency Architecture reveal their global projects on urbanism and resistance.
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Estudio Teddy Cruz + Forman

Social Design Circle Honoree
Podcast
CSF Grantee
How can borders be places of innovation, creativity and exchange? Central to Estudio Teddy Cruz + Forman’s work is the idea that “borders” are not places to be defended, but can promote innovation and exchange.
  • Community Development
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Gyaw Gyaw

Social Design Circle Honoree
Podcast
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.
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  • Wishing all our followers and friends a warm and safe 2021! #CurryStoneFoundation #CurryStone #CSF
  • Riwaq (@riwaq_palestine), a Curry Stone #DesignPrize winner and Palestine-based architecture and heritage conservation organisation is hosting a virtual tour of Jerusalem villages and a Christmas concert on Saturday, 12th December 2020, at 1:00 pm (CST), 2:00 pm (EST), through Zoom. Purchase tickets on their website (link in the bio) and support their efforts to rebuild and preserve the cultural heritage of Palestine. #CSF #CurryStoneFoundation #CurryStone #palestine #conservativearchitecture #palestinianheritage #architecturalheritage #architecturalheritageconservation #jerusalem #riwaq #christmasconcert
  • Congratulations to architect and Curry Stone #DesignPrize winner Anna Heringer (@studioannaheringer) on winning The Obel Award (@obelaward) for her project "Anandaloy" in Rudrapur, Bangladesh. Built with mud and bamboo by the local community, Anandaloy hosts a therapy centre for people with disabilities and a fair textile studio that employs local women. It is also the first building in the village to have ramp access. Its construction explores the plastic abilities of mud in order to create a stronger identity, by using a mud technique called cob which allows curved walls to be built just as easily as straight ones. Click
  • Our term for the week in the #SocialDesignDictionary series is Advocacy The definition has been shared by Veronica Cedillos, President of GeoHazards International. A licensed civil engineer whose primary focus has been to reduce the impacts of natural hazards, she has led and been involved in numerous efforts to implement or promote seismic and tsunami risk reduction in communities throughout the world. She has shared the image of a young woman in Cap-Haitien, Haiti who is advocating for people to take safety precautions to protect themselves and others during the COVID-19 pandemic as part of a GeoHazards International youth-led project called Timoun
  • Our term for the week in the #SocialDesignDictionary series is Collective Mapping The definition has been shared by Argentina-based Iconoclasistas (@iconoclasistas) formed by Pablo Ares, a graphic artist and comic strip author, and Julia Risler (@julia_risler), communicator and researcher currently teaching at the University of Bueno Aires. They have shared images from their mapping exercises at Iconoclasistas to go with the definition. Learn more about their work on their website and Instagram handle. What is your definition of Mapping or Collective Mapping? Share with us in the comments section! #CSF #CurryStone #CurryStoneFoundation #SDD #socialdesign #designdictionary #iconoclasistas #argentina #juliarisler #pabloares #mapping
  • "I’m grateful to be a vessel. To have a life that allows me to devote myself to giving space and form to my thoughts."  Artist, urbanist and #SocialDesignCircle #Honoree Theaster Gates

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REQUESTS FOR FUNDING

We are struggling to comprehend the magnitude and horror during this period of Covid-19.

The deaths, the illnesses, millions unemployed, millions in quarantine, borders closed and the disruption of normalcy.

Curry Stone Foundation is receiving numerous unsolicited requests for support in light of this crisis. Many of these have significant merit, and we understand the need is great.

Prior the Pandemic, our budget for 2020 and 2021 was committed to projects still in process, in India and elsewhere. Now, as a direct result of the crisis, we anticipate that these will need supplemental funds to reach completion. As these projects impact fragile, marginalized populations, we need to reserve emergency funds for that purpose.

For these reasons, we will not be able to assist financially with any immediate requests for funds.

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