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Design Like You Give A Damn [2]

Tue, 07/06/2010 - 16:27 — Cameron

Design Like You Give a Damn [2] is an indispensable handbook for anyone engaged in the search for a more sustainable future. Documenting over 100 exemplary projects from around the world, it is packed with practical and ingenious design solutions that address the need for basic shelter, housing, education, health care, clean water and renewable energy. Personal interviews and provocative case studies demonstrate how innovative design is reimagining community and uplifting lives. From swing sets in refugee shelters to a coed skate park in war-torn Afghanistan; building material innovations such as smog-eating concrete to innovative public policy that is repainting Brazil’s urban slums, Design Like You Give a Damn [2] serves as a how-to guide for anyone seeking to build change from the ground up.

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Apr 30, 2012

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Tomorrow is the official launch of Design Like You Give A Damn [2]: Building Change From The Ground Up.

The Architecture for Humanity team has assembled an indispensable handbook for anyone committed to building a more sustainable future. With more than 100 projects from around the world, it is packed with practical and ingenious design solutions, addressing the need for basic shelter, housing, education, health care, clean water, and renewable energy.

Jul 6, 2010

DLYGAD2: Activist Architecture Seals A Leak

Not all humanitarian architecture focuses on housing, education or health care. There is a small but vital aspect of the work which involves political (h)activism. In Design Like you Give A Damn Vol. 1 we covered groups like Heavy Trash and their work in Los Angeles. Here is a great example of a gang of designers, Jason Eppink and Posterchild, who took on a 20 year leak in Astoria, Queens.

Nov 18, 2009