How can cities be reimagined by their citizens? Two central figures in public art and community building unveil how they help communities take control of their own futures.

Advocacy
Community Development
Urban Strategies

82 | Resilience’s Frontline

Podcast

Is Resilience Still Relevant? Mathew Sanders details the pioneering struggle of the people of Isle de Jean Charles in confronting climate change.

Community Development
Conflict and Disaster
Housing
Resilience

Can an architect truly straddle both first world success and community development in the developing world? Diébédo Francis Kéré is a Burkinabe architect based in Berlin, Germany, whose work straddles community development in the developing world and award-winning architecture in the first world.

Community Development
Environment

Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove di Metropoliz

Social Design Circle Honoree

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.

Advocacy
Community Development

Refugee Academy

Social Design Circle Honoree

Can refugees be a national asset? Berlin’s The Refugee Academy responds to the influx of refugees into Germany. Their work is about designing new ways to think about migration.

Advocacy
Community Development
Conflict and Disaster

Stalker

Social Design Circle Honoree

Podcast

Does design create politics or vice versa? Stalker is a collective of artists, architects, activists and others whose work focuses on the margins of the city.

Advocacy
Community Development
Environment
Urban Strategies

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