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Violence Prevention

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

62 | Finding Empathy, Making Art

Podcast
How do we design resistance? Suzanne Lacy talks to us about the role of art in the pursuit of social justice, and how to navigate the lines between art, activism, design and space.
  • 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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  • Urban Strategies

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

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
  • Community Development
  • Urban Strategies

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

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

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

Suzanne Lacy

Social Design Circle Honoree
Podcast
What is the role of art in engaging the public in social justice issues? American artist and activist Suzanne Lacy tackles gender violence, segregation and other social justice issues. Her work evokes discussion and debate and often engages audiences directly, outside of institutional structures.
  • Advocacy

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
  • 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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