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Informal Settlements

04 | Engaging Community, Engaging Practice

Podcast
Social Design Circle Honoree
Should designers be outlaws? Arquitectura Expandida discusses its approach to working in informal communities alongside (and sometimes around) government.
  • Advocacy
  • Community Development
  • Urban Strategies

100 | Designing Portals to Connect the World

Podcast
Design at the Intersection of Technology and Humanity Michelle Moghtader is the Director of Global Development & Co-Founder of Shared Studios, as well as a journalist and community organizer.
  • 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.
  • Community Development

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.
  • Advocacy
  • Community Development
  • Conflict and Disaster

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.
  • Community Development

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

118 | Design Politics in the Climate Emergency

Podcast
Crisis in Climate, Crisis in Design Kian Goh is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California Los Angeles whose research focuses on the intersections of ecological design, spatial justice and climate change. Goh’s work is known for centering racial and social justice within the climate change conversation.
  • Urban Strategies

13 | How to Design a School for $200

Podcast
Social Design Circle Honoree
Can design challenge inequality? David Barragán of Al Borde discusses how design can empower a community to become their own designers & builders.
  • Community Development

16 | Design, Development and Disaster Mitigation in Pakistan

Podcast
Social Design Circle Honoree
Can design prevent disaster? Yasmeen Lari details the growth of resilient architecture and sustainable development in Pakistan.
  • Conflict and Disaster

31 | Clothing, Currency and Community

Podcast
Social Design Circle Honoree
Can we design a slum-friendly city? Anshu Gupta of Goonj discusses his unique methodology for community development: clothes as currency.
  • Advocacy
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  • Environment

47 | Using Design to Bring Down Crime

Podcast
Social Design Circle Honoree
Does design create politics or vice versa? Kathryn Ewing and Don Shay of VPUU outline how community-based planning can make real results in crime prevention.
  • Community Development
  • Housing

Al Borde

Social Design Circle Honoree
Podcast
How does constraint lead to creativity? Al Borde is a collaborative studio that engages people on the margins of society. Their work is known for extreme affordability and elegantly illustrates how constraint leads to creativity.
  • Community Development

Arquitectura Expandida

Social Design Circle Honoree
Podcast
Should designers be outlaws? Arquitectura Expandida is a design collective based in Bogota, Colombia that builds structures of public assembly for communities which cannot afford to go through official channels for design and construction.
  • Advocacy
  • Community Development
  • Urban Strategies

Asian Coalition for Housing Rights

Social Design Circle Honoree
Podcast
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.
  • Advocacy
  • Housing

Build Change

Social Design Circle Honoree
Podcast
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.
  • Community Development
  • Conflict and Disaster

Goonj

Social Design Circle Honoree
Podcast
How can donated clothing be translated into community renewal? Goonj is a non-governmental organization based in Delhi. It barters clothing and other donated items to pay laborers from the community to carry out development projects in poorer areas.
  • Advocacy
  • Community Development
  • Environment

Heritage Foundation of Pakistan

Social Design Circle Honoree
Podcast
Can post disaster housing be sustainable and respectful of local vernacular? The Heritage Foundation of Pakistan is one of the world’s most successful providers of sustainable, resilient disaster relief structures. They are also involved in historic conservation projects in Pakistani villages.
  • Conflict and Disaster

Hunnarshala

2013 Prize Winner
Video
How can artisans build a resilient community? Hunnarshala works with artisans to combine traditional building techniques with innovation. They are also engaged in training and empowering artisan entrepreneurs, bringing them into the mainstream of construction.
  • Conflict and Disaster
  • Environment
  • Housing

Liter of Light

2012 Prize Winner
Video
Can a plastic bottle bring light where electricity is scarce? Philippines based Liter of light is a global, open-source, grassroots movement committed to providing affordable, sustainable light to people with limited or no access to electricity.
  • Community Development

Sanergy

Social Design Circle Honoree
Can waste management create jobs and improve hygiene? Launched in Nairobi’s slums, Sanergy is a business and sanitation initiative. Low-cost pay toilets are run by locals as a business. Waste is processed into fertilizer and sold to commercial farms.
  • Community Development
  • Environment

SPARC

2016 Prize Winner
Vision Award Recipient
Video
What can slum dwellers teach design professionals? SPARC organizes, legitimizes and advocates for India’s urban poor, seeking improved living conditions and advancements in rights. SPARC believes that with structural support, the urban poor can make their destinies.
  • Advocacy
  • Community Development

Urban-Think Tank

Social Design Circle Honoree
Podcast
How can urban dwellers participate in the construction of their own built environment? Urban-Think Tank (UTT) is an interdisciplinary design studio dedicated to high ­level research and design at a variety of scales, principally concerned with contemporary architecture and urbanism.
  • Community Development
  • Urban Strategies

Violence Prevention Through Urban Upgrading

Social Design Circle Honoree
Podcast
Can urban upgrading reduce crime? In Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township, Violence Prevention Through Urban Upgrading (VPUU) uses urban planning to fight crime, developing interventions in high-crime spots. They create decent, livable communities through local planning.
  • Community Development
  • Housing

Wes Janz

2008 Prize Winner
Video
How can designers address poverty in American cities? Architect Wes Janz focuses on the potential of informal settlements and camps housing 1 billion of the world’s poor. He sees these as a utilitarian beauty wrought of necessity.
  • Advocacy
  • Environment
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Connect With Us currystonefdn

  • Curry Stone Design Prize winner Liter of Light (@literoflight) has been awarded the Asia Pacific Social Innovation and Partnership Award (APSIPA) for its “Light it Forward” campaign, that challenges people to hand-build solar lamps for donation to electricity-deprived communities while paying tribute to frontliners of the COVID-19 pandemic. Inspired by the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, the Light it Forward campaign gives Filipinos a chance to build solar lamps (swipe left to see @ria perform the challenge!) which takes less than 30 minutes, challenge their friends and family, and help communities living without electricity in the midst of this global health
  • Recipient of the 2020 Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s (@lacma) annual Art + Technology Grant, artistic duo Rael San Fratello are exploring the potential of Indigenous mud-based building materials through 3D printing to create large scale architectural work. Conceptualised and being executed by architect and #SocialDesignInsights #podcast guest Ronald Rael (@rrael) and architect Virginia San Fratello (@vasfsf), along with their team at Emerging Objects, the project titled “Casa Covida” seeks to elevate “traditional clay craft at the scale of architecture and pottery. The end goal of this endeavor is to demonstrate that low-cost and low-labor construction that is accessible,
  • Sandhya Naidu Janardhan (@sandhyajnaidu), Managing Director of our Mumbai based design studio, Curry Stone Design Collaborative (CSDC), recently shared her insights on using design for inclusive community building in the Melbourne Microfinance Institute
  • Catch Sandhya Naidu Janardhan (@sandhyajnaidu), Managing Director of our Mumbai based design studio Curry Stone Design Collaborative, at the Inclusive Urbanism Series webinar discussing the importance of community based participatory design, making design accessible and establishing value systems that will transform urban development. Links to the Facebook and YouTube live stream are in the bio. The Inclusive Urbanism Series is being organised by The Urban Vision (@theurbanvision), The Red Dot Foundation and Stanford CDDRL Leadership Network for Change. This live webinar series with thought leaders explores ideas for urbanism and programming to support marginalized communities. @prathimamanohar @pinthecreep @_theurbanvision_ #CSF #CurryStone #Webinar #InclusiveCities #InclusiveUrbanism
  • (Link in the bio) “I want girls, who have big dreams and ideas, to have zero barriers to access the tools they need to be successful. That tool might be a hammer, a little extra confidence to try something new, or the ability to see yourself in the world of STEM.” - @emilypilloton Congratulations to Emily Pilloton on the release of her much-awaited book, Girls Garage- a 300 page compendium for young girls, which covers all the essential tools and skills one needs to learn how to build, several how-to projects and profiles of inspiring girls and women. Formerly known
  • (Link in the bio) “For nearly every injustice in the world, there is an architecture that has been planned and designed to perpetuate it.” Read this powerful piece by Bryan C. Lee Jr. (@bcleejr), co-founder of design justice practice and Social Design Circle Honoree, Colloqate (@colloqate), where he critiques the role of architecture and design and its complicity in perpetuating a culture of racial discrimination in the United States. He is also one of the organisers of Design as Protest, which is hosting its Day of Action today (next image for details), June 5 at 12 PM CST/1PM EST Catch

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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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