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Humanitarian Design: Networks

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March 19, 2012
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Photo ' Matt Flynn / Smithsonian Institution The Design Other 90 Network is a membership and project database maintained by the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. It stems from two major exhibitions organized by the institution. Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) is a national membership organization with several local chapters, which, since 1981, has sought to link design with environmental protection, ecological building, peace, and social justice causes. Its flagship program is New Village Press, the first book and media publisher dedicated to community design and development. For information: www.adpsr.org The Association for Community Design is membership-based network of independent and
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Humanitarian Design: University Programs

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March 19, 2012
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Photo courtesy Studio 804 Studio 804, a design-build program in the architecture school at the University of Kansas, has completed a number of impressive projects, including the 5.4.7 Arts Center in Greensburg, Kansas. BaSiC Initiative is a collaboration of faculty and students from Portland State University and the University of Texas at Austin, which deploys students to work on community-based projects around the world. For information: www.basicinitiative.org The Building Project at Yale University, now in its fifth decade, partners first-year graduate students with nonprofit housing organizations, including Common Ground and Habitat for Humanity. For information: www.architecture.yale.edu/ The Carl Small Town
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Humanitarian Design: Nonprofit Firms and Organizations

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March 19, 2012
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Architecture for Humanity is helping rebuild schools in Haiti.


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Humanitarian Design: Firm Programs

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March 19, 2012
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Photo © David Wakely Photography One of HOK’s many pro bono projects was an office for the Taproot Foundation, a nonprofit based in San Francisco. The 1% program of Public Architecture now counts over 1,000 firms among its ranks. Although dominated by architecture firms, the program welcomes design practices of all types to pledge a minimum of one percent of their billable hours to pro bono services. Public Architecture now estimates that program’s firm pledges constitute on the order of $38 million in donated services annually. For information: www.theonepercent.org Perkins+Will Social Responsibility Initiative, launched in 2008, is a firm-wide service
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Humanitarian Design: Fellowships

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March 19, 2012
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Photo © Iwan Baan The Global Health Corps offers fellowships for designers to work in Rwanda with MASS Design Group, on projects like its Butaro Hospital and evolving master plan (pictured). AmeriCorps, including its VISTA component, is America’s domestic service program that deploys college graduates to fight poverty in low-income communities. The AmeriCorps website sometimes promotes opportunities specifically for architects and designers, with “architectural planning” as an advanced search option. AmeriCorps members receive a modest living allowance, prorated for location (averaging approximately $15,000 annually), plus health insurance, and some programs provide housing assistance. AmeriCorps members who complete one term of
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Humanitarian Design: Events

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March 19, 2012
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Photo courtesy Design Corps The Public Interest Design Institute is a two-day training program coordinated by Design Corps. A recent session at Yale drew speakers such as Anna Heringer and Michael Murphy. The ACD National Conference is held annually by the Associaton for Community Design. The next conference will take place June 7-10, 2012, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Theme and registration details have yet to be announced. For information: www.communitydesign.org/events The Design Access Summit is a new convention being launched by Public Architecture, aimed at design, government, nonprofit, and philanthropic leaders. It seeks to highlight the role that design
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Humanitarian Design: Awards

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March 19, 2012
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Photo courtesy Hsieh Ying-Chun, Rural Architecture Studio and Atelier 3 Taiwanese architect Hsieh Ying-Chun won the 2011 Curry Stone Design Prize. The Berkeley Prize, now in its fourteenth year, is a multipart design and writing competition focused on the social art of architecture. The Berkeley Prize is open to undergraduate students worldwide, though it’s focused largely on architecture students. Multiple awards are given, with the annual purse totaling $12,500. Deadline for submissions is each fall. For information: www.berkeleyprize.org The Core77 Design Awards program, now in its second year, has several “progressive project” categories, including “service” and “social impact”; pro bono
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Over $1.5 Billion in Service

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March 1, 2012
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Architects Tapped for Series of Salvation Army Community Centers, Thanks to Generous Joan Kroc Donation. Photo © Halkin Photography MGA Partners designed the Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center in Philadelphia. When Joan Kroc died in 2003, she willed the bulk of her estate, $1.5 billion, to the Salvation Army'the single-largest charitable gift in history, according to some accounts. Two years earlier, the widow of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc had worked with the nonprofit organization to build a Salvation Army community center in San Diego designed by AVRP Studios. Joan Kroc, who had contributed $90 million to
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Cooper-Hewitt's 90% Exhibition Occupies the UN

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November 11, 2011
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The Smithsonian museum aims to inspire global leaders by staging its new humanitarian design show in the United Nations Headquarters.
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