We're gearing up for the 3rd annual Design Like You Give a Damn: LIVE! and we hope you can join us. The practitioners' forum of innovative panel discussions and workshops will take place on November 12-13, 2012 in San Francisco. This year's event promises to provide the best programming yet and will qualify AIA members for six learning unit hours.

The two-day event brings together designers, architects, real estate professionals, manufacturers, academics, philanthropists, media and business leaders to address the challenges and lessons learned in humanitarian design. Panel topics address cutting-edge topics relevant to the field and workshops allow participants to gain hands-on knowledge from expert panelists.

Save the Date! The 3rd annual Design Like You Give a Damn: LIVE! will take place on November 12-13, 2012 in San Francisco right before USGBC's Greenbuild. Advance registration coming soon.

Join us for a practitioners' forum of innovative panel discussions and workshops. The two-day event brings together designers, architects, real estate professionals, manufacturers, academics, philanthropists, media and business leaders to address the collective challenges and lessons learned in humanitarian design. Panel topics address cutting-edge topics relevant to the field and one-on-one workshops allow participants to gain hands-on knowledge from community development experts.

Panelists delved into three panel topics at Architecture for Humanity's recent humanitarian design and community development conference in New York City, Design Like You Give a Damn: LIVE! Experts in the areas of "Disaster Response and Reconstruction", "Investing in Social and Sustainable Real Estate", and "Greening Our Schools" shared their knowledge, how they see the fields moving forward and the ensuing challenges.

To learn more about the three topic areas and to view the full panel discussions, tune into the videos below...

"Events like these are why I get out of bed in the morning.”
– Amy King, Director, USGBC Leadership Institute, U.S. Green Building Council

Architecture for Humanity's annual humanitarian design conference on Oct. 21-22 packed the house with designers, architects and community activists who shared their projects that are making waves in the design world and who learned from expert panelists on the cutting edge of community development.

Design Open Mic recently hit the road again as part of our traveling open mic series and as an integral programmatic element of Design Like You Give a Damn: LIVE! An overwhelming majority of those attending our annual humanitarian design conference ranked the Design Open Mic as one of their favorite aspects to the weekend forum.

The back-to-back seven minute presentation format, similar in style to Pecha Kucha - or 20 seconds per 20 slides - kept the audience engaged and the presenters on their toes. This year we had more than three dozen presentations throughout the day on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2011. Those attending the conference could choose to listen to the panel discussions or watch the Design Open Mic. There wasn't a dull moment (check out the video if you don't believe us).

Thank you to everyone who came out to Steelcase and the Center for Architecture in New York City on Oct. 21-22, 2011 to attend Design Like You Give a Damn: LIVE! We counted 600 attendees, including dozens more streaming live on our website. The Design Open Mic stole the show with 40 back-to-back presentations, featuring the grand prize winner, "Project Ground Up: $300 House," and second place winner, "Urban Impulse: Monterrey, Mexico." (projects to be posted on our website soon)

Follow Design Like You Give a Damn: LIVE and the Chapter Forum via webcast here : http://www.ustream.tv/channel/design-like-you-give-a-damn-live

Chapter Forum: 9am-noon EST
Design Like You Give a Damn: starts at noon EST

Architecture for Humanity's fall humanitarian design conference in New York City is next weekend, Oct. 21-22, 2011. Don't miss this year's Design Like You Give a Damn: LIVE! - a practitioners' forum of innovative panel discussions and workshops.

Architecture for Humanity is gearing up for our fall humanitarian design conference in New York City on Oct. 21st and Oct. 22nd. Don't miss this year's Design Like You Give a Damn: LIVE! - a practitioners' forum of innovative panel discussions and workshops.

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A special thank you to everyone who attended and sponsored Design Like You Give a Damn: LIVE! from October 15-16, 2010 at the Center for Architecture in New York City. The two-day forum on humanitarian design and community development was a huge success and we are so happy that hundreds of designers, architects, philanthropists, media and business representatives were able to participate.


Check out this 3-minute video, courtesy of Fountainhead Films and NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate. Photos courtesy of Yutaka Takiura, T-Design Architecture, P.C.

A special thank you to everyone who attended and sponsored Design Like You Give a Damn: LIVE! The two-day forum on humanitarian design and community development at the Center for Architecture in New York City was a huge success and we are so happy that hundreds of people were able to participate. We will post video footage and photos soon, so stay tuned.

The idea for hosting Design Like You Give a Damn: LIVE! came about as we were preparing the second edition of Design Like You Give a Damn, a book that highlights breakthrough design solutions with the power and potential to improve our lives and the world. We wanted to gather people together in person to learn and to share their passion for design that makes the world a better place. Period. No ego.