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Peace Building

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

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

41 | Recognizing the Unrecognized

Podcast
Social Design Circle Honoree
What can design do to promote peace? Malkit Shoshan of the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory discusses the architecture of conflict.
  • Community Development
  • Conflict and Disaster

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

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

60-61 | Justice, Incarceration & Design, Part 1 & 2

Podcast
How do we design resistance? Deanna Van Buren and Raphael Sperry join us to discuss the architecture of incarceration, and how their respective work campaigns for reform.
  • Advocacy

79-80 | Inciting Radical Communities, Part 1 & 2

Podcast
Social Design Circle Honoree
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

Alliance of Community Trainers

CSF Grantee
Can design increase civic engagement? The Alliance of Community Trainers works with communities to create a shared vision and to empower communities with tools for problem solving, conflict resolution, alternative technology, environmental sustainability and more.
  • Advocacy
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  • Conflict and Disaster
  • Environment
  • Resilience
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Bait al Karama

Social Design Circle Honoree
How can a women-led culinary school promote peace and understanding? Bait al Karama, Palestinian Nablus’ first women’s center, combines a culinary social enterprise with cultural activities. Translated as “House of Dignity,” it is located in an area devastated by conflict.
  • Advocacy
  • Community Development

Conflictorium

Social Design Circle Honoree
Can a museum help people face and resolve conflict? The Conflictorium is a participatory museum that addresses the theme of conflict. It uses art and interactive exhibits to neutrally address how conflicts begin and how they can be resolved.
  • Advocacy
  • Conflict and Disaster

El Equipo Mazzanti

Social Design Circle Honoree
Podcast
Why is all architecture social? Colombian architectural firm El Equipo Mazzanti blurs the lines between “social design” and traditional practice. In Medellin, its work was part of the extensive renewal known as the “Medellin Miracle.”
  • Advocacy
  • Community Development

Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory

Social Design Circle Honoree
Podcast
Is there a relationship between architecture, planning, politics and human rights? The Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST) is a think tank founded from a desire to spark a discussion about how political powers use architecture and architects to implement ideological agendas.
  • Community Development
  • Conflict and Disaster

PICO Colectivo

Social Design Circle Honoree
Is design about the process or the result? PICO focuses on interventions in gathering spaces. They believe that architecture is not an end it in itself. The process of understanding the interaction of life and space is vital.
  • Community Development
  • Urban Strategies

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

RIWAQ

2012 Prize Winner
Video
Can restoration work in Palestine reinforce cultural identity? RIWAQ Centre for Architectural Conservation documents Palestinian heritage through restoration of the built environment. For Riwaq, conservation and historic restoration are tools for advancement; creating spaces where contemporary communities thrive.
  • Advocacy
  • Conflict and Disaster

Studios Kabako

2014 Prize Winner
Video
Can art transform a nation torn apart by conflict and strife? Studios Kabako addresses post-war social memory, fear, and hope. It creates a network for artistic expression at home in the Congolese city of Kisangani and through international commissions.
  • Community Development
  • Conflict and Disaster

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
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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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