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Social Justice

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

40 | Activating Community Voices

Podcast
Social Design Circle Honoree
What can design do to promote peace? Isella Ramirez of Hester Street discusses their strategies for making communities be heard.
  • Advocacy
  • Community Development
  • Housing

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

51 | Collective Mapping as a Tool for Social Change

Podcast
Social Design Circle Honoree
Does design create politics or vice versa? Iconoclasistas discusses the practice of collective mapping and how it can be mobilized to achieve social justice.
  • Community Development
  • Urban Strategies

57 | Social Design Insights 2017 Year in Review

Podcast
How do we design resistance? Cliff Curry and Delight Stone join Eric and Emiliano to discuss the first year of Social Design Insights and look to what’s ahead.
  • 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

63-64 | Design as Protest, Protest by Design, Part 1 & 2

Podcast
How do we design resistance? Bryan C. Lee Jr. and Sue Mobley of Colloqate Design join us to discuss how design can support or deconstruct systems of institutional oppression.
  • Advocacy

65 | Data, Design and Social Practice

Podcast
How do we design resistance? Laura Kurgan of the Center for Spatial Research joins us to talk about how data and the design of data systems can be applied to social justice.
  • Advocacy

66-67 | Fronts: Security in the Developing World, Part 1 & 2

Podcast
How do we design resistance? Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller of Agency Architecture reveal their global projects on urbanism and resistance.
  • Advocacy

76 | Design School as a Site of Insurrection, Then and Now

Podcast
Can design education promote social justice? Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA is an activist educator and public scholar who promotes inclusivity in the cultural makeup of the city-making design professions.
  • Advocacy

77-78 | Building Social Movements from the Ground Up, Part 1 & 2

Podcast
Can design education promote social justice? Black in Design is a student-led biennial gathering which confronts issues of race and equity throughout the design professions.
  • 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
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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

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

FrontlineSMS

2011 Prize Winner
Video
Can SMS technology be harnessed as a powerful information dissemination tool? Frontline SMS is software that acts as an information dissemination service for text messages. It uses cell service not internet access to create communication networks and exchange information.
  • Advocacy
  • Community Development

FrontlineSMS

2011 Prize Winner
Video
Can SMS technology be harnessed as a powerful information dissemination tool? Frontline SMS is software that acts as an information dissemination service for text messages. It uses cell service not internet access to create communication networks and exchange information.
  • Advocacy
  • Community Development

Hester Street Collaborative

Social Design Circle Honoree
Podcast
How can neighborhoods be shaped by the people who live in them? Hester Street works to ensure neighborhoods are shaped by the people who live in them. They offer planning, design and community development assistance to community-based organizations, government and other agencies.
  • Advocacy
  • Community Development
  • Housing

Iconoclasistas

Social Design Circle Honoree
Podcast
Can maps promote equality and strategies of resistance? Iconoclasistas is a Buenos Aires-based design duo. Their mission is to use cartography (maps) and other graphic arts to create new visions of historic representation, societal growth and participation.
  • Community Development
  • Urban Strategies

Plan Selva

Social Design Circle Honoree
How can design address the problem of education for internally neglected communities? Plan Selva is the Peruvian Education Ministry’s plan to bring quality education to remote regions. The result self-empowers indigenous people to cultivate their knowledge and live productively in the Amazon.
  • Community Development
  • Environment

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

Transition Network

2009 Prize Winner
Video
Can your neighborhood become a self-sufficient community? The Transition Network is a global network of communities responding to global warming and declining oil with local self-sufficiency in food, energy and more.
  • Community Development
  • Environment

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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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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