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Public Access Design

21-22 | Building Community a Block at a Time, Part 1 & 2

Podcast
Social Design Circle Honoree
Can we design community engagement? Brent Brown of bcWORKSHOP tells us how they serve marginalized communities in the Rio Grande Valley.
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bcWORKSHOP

Social Design Circle Honoree
Podcast
Can architects build community as well as buildings? bcWORKSHOP works in neighborhoods lacking access to designers. Its programs are committed to building community and begin by acknowledging that social structure is the best guide to designing physical structures.
  • Community Development
  • Housing

Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)

2012 Prize Winner
Video
Can design increase civic participation? The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) uses design and art to increase civic engagement. Collaborating with artist /designers, community advocates and policymakers, CUP creates simple, accessible visual explanations for civic issues.
  • Advocacy
  • Community Development

Echeverri & Fajardo

2009 Prize Winner
Video
Can improving the built environment in impoverished neighborhoods transform a city? Fajardo and Echeverri implemented a bold program in Medellín. By training architects to build parks and public buildings in impoverished neighborhoods, Medellin was transformed from “world’s deadliest city” into a vibrant, livable place.
  • Advocacy
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  • Urban Strategies

Open Source Ecology

Social Design Circle Honoree
What are the fifty machines essential to modern life—and can their designs be open-sourced? Open Source Ecology is dedicated to an open-source economy. At their core are plans for fifty fundamental machines; what is required to create a small, modern civilization.
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  • 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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The Curry Stone Foundation (CSF) is the brainchild of architect, urban planner and developer Clifford Curry, FAIA, and the historical archeologist Dr. Delight Stone, RPA. It was inspired by a shared conviction that design thinking and design actions can—and should, serve those wishing to contribute to community vitality and human dignity. Most of all, we believe that design should be available to those most in need.

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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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