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Slum Housing

08 | Growth, Equity & Asian Cities

Podcast
Social Design Circle Honoree
Is the right to housing real? The Asian Coalition for Housing Rights is a large broad-based coalition of like-minded groups fighting for housing advocacy throughout Asia; they share with us their strategies.
  • Advocacy
  • Housing

37 | Finding Holistic Design Through History

Podcast
Social Design Circle Honoree
How do we design with scarcity? Yatin Pandya discusses his philosophy of ‘holistic design’ and how he seeks new solutions for India’s future.
  • Environment
  • Housing

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

Slum Redevelopment

Design Foundation Initiative
How can a designer build trust among residents under a constant threat of eviction? The residents of a Ahmednagar slum live under a constant threat of eviction. CDA is focusing on trust building, empowering residents to take on development and construction of their homes.
  • Community Development
  • Housing
  • Resilience
  • Urban Strategies

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

Urbz

Social Design Circle Honoree
How can slum dwellers be protected against profit-minded developers? Mumbai based Urbz confronts a daunting problem: a slum’s real estate value. It fights against city planners and developers who execute a common form of slum rehabilitation-- level & relocate.
  • Community Development
  • Urban Strategies

Yatin Pandya

Social Design Circle Honoree
Podcast
How do we design with scarcity? Yatin Pandya is the founder and executive director of Footprints E.A.R.T.H. (Environment, Architecture, Research, Technology, Housing), an Indian professional services organization focused on research, design and the promotion of more sustainable urban futures.
  • Environment
  • Housing

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  • Congratulations to Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal on winning the Pritzker Architecture Prize 2021. Through their writing, teaching and practice, Lacaton and Vassal have successfully argued that re-adaptation of social housing stock is preferable in aesthetic, economic and ecological terms. The #SocialDesignCircle #Honorees have always led by their dictum of “Never demolish, never remove or replace, always add, transform, and reuse!" Click on the link in our bio to listen to the duo on the #SocialDesignInsights #Podcast and learn more about their work. Images: 1) Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal. Photo courtesy of Laurent Chalet. 2) Transformation of G, H, I Buildings, Grand
  • Click on the link in our bio to catch Debbie Aung Din Taylor, co-founder of Curry Stone Design Prize winning practice Proximity Designs (@proximitydesigns) on the Paradigms podcast, where she discusses the work of the Myanmar-based organization. Proximity Designs works closely with small farmers to design affordable solutions to agrarian processes, offers low risk loans and supports community-owned rural infrastructure projects to make agriculture a viable and sustainable source of livelihood. Image Credits: @proximitydesigns #CSF #CurryStoneFoundation #CurryStone #CSDP #designprize #myanmar #agriculture #agrariancrisis #smallfarmers #supportsmallfarmers #farmtech #designforagriculture #farmfinance #empathydrivendesign #proximitydesigns #smallfarmirrigation #irrigationsystem #irrigationsystems #sustainablefarmingpractices #sustainablefarming #sustainableagriculturalpractices #sustainableagriculture
  • We are proud to share that CSF has pledged $125,000 to the Architects Foundation
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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

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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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