SpeakersKEYNOTE CANCELED DUE TO MEDICAL EMERGENCY. SUBSTITUTION WILL BE MADE. KEYNOTE: Francis Kéré, ArchitectFrancis Kéré is a young architect from Burkina Faso who studied in Germany. His motto is “help to self-help.” Only those who take part in the development processes will be able to appreciate their results, to continue, and to save them. Assisted by his friends, during his study he founded the Schulbausteine fur Gando association whose main aims are to create buildings that meet climatic demands, and to support the Burkinabe people in their development. Kéré does not limit his efforts to architecture. With the help of his association he tries to provide the people of his homeland with innovative development projects and with better future prospects thereby. This effort covers adult education, health care, and economic support for women bearing the greatest share of burdens in his home country. In 2004 he won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture one of his projects - a primary school in his home village Gando. Project: Extension of the primary school in Gando, Burkina Faso, 2008 Project: High school extension in Dano, Burkina Faso, 2007 Project: Primary school in Gando, Burkina Faso, 2001
PANEL 1: Design ActivismModerator Lisa Abendroth Don’t wait for the phone to ring -- take action. These activists show how initiative can combine with grassroots organization to realize contributing projects and beautiful design. By working with local partners, the four presenters show that design can be the tool to realize primary goals of communities, providing not just “quality of life” but healthy food on the table and money in tight pockets. Emilie Taylor of the Tulane City Center will present three projects involving design and food, from local production to local sale. These education-based projects create a synergy between neighborhoods and across cultures, weaving under-used resources into the renewal and health of New Orleans. Anselmo Canfora will present an international model that combines grassroots elements of activism, collaboration, and entrepreneurship. The result is a beautiful elementary school in Gita, Uganda that has already provided job training during construction, and will soon provide needed education for 320 young residents in the area. Michael Murphy is co-founder of MASS Design Group, a non-profit architectural collaborative which currently based in Boston, MA and Kigali, Rwanda. They have partnered with Partners in Health, The Clinton Foundation and The Government of Rwanda to design a 200 bed hospital in Northern Rwanda. The design of the hospital focuses on the use of natural ventilation techniques to mitigate and ultimately reduce the transmission of airborne diseases like tuberculosis. Their designs have recently been adopted as standards for infection control in medical infrastructure in Rwanda. In just under two years MASS has established a full service architecture, landscape architecture, and planning firm specializing in design for the most underserved in the most limited resource settings. Ifeoma Ebo, is a recent architecture graduate who received a travel grant to research AIDS Clinics in South Africa. Through local contacts she made on her trip, she has leveraged a travel fellowship into a project that applies the results of her research.
PANEL 2: Development as a Change Agent for the GoodModerator Maurice Cox Developers have a bad reputation among architects, but is it deserved? In fact, developers create almost all affordable housing in the country. They are also the primary means for an array of federal funding programs to be realized as buildings that match community needs. Developers also show entrepreneurship, undertaking projects from start to finish that combine design with the financial means. They can be both designer and client. This panel will present three types of developers -- for-profit, non-profit and municipal -- who will show how developers' tools can lead to social, economic or environmental change. Uncommon Schools is a non-profit organization that initiates and manages outstanding urban charter public schools that close the achievement gap and prepare low-income students to graduate from college. Director of Facilities, Ahkilah Johnson, will discuss how these schools are successfully aligning regional networks making them philosophically aligned and highly accountable.
Monica Chadha of Studio Gang Architects will present the SOS Children's Village in
Chicago, the first ever urban village in the world. The project illustrates how an enlightened
developer, client and others at the front end of a project can impact good
design on a project
PANEL 3: Politics and Policy: High Impact DesignModerator Jess Zimbabwe Like it or not, design is a political act. Ignoring this leads to design that enforces the status quo, but understanding it allows for design to have wider impact. Three presenters will discuss very different models of design engaging policy and politics. The best projects can become models for new policy, having a positive impact well beyond their own physical limits. Ben Gates will present his own work as a Rose Fellow to design water-neutral buildings, and how he has since taken this design experience to help shape major policy innovations for the state of Oregon. What are the politics of a design education? Tom Dutton will discuss his reflections on “what I’ve learned in 26 years…that pedagogy always proposes a political vision…Our goal is to get students and faculty to experience relationships marked by oppressed and oppressor populations—to see how class and racial struggles take specific form in Over-the-Rhine and Cincinnati.” The District of Columbia Department of Housing and Community Development will present the Ivy City Demonstration project which is an example of converting blighted and vacant properties into a green, affordable and flourishing neighborhood by organizing a team of lifelong residents as well as a squad of non-profit developers. Martine Combal, Manager of DHCD’s Property Acquisition and Disposition Division, will present their role in coordinating community vision and assets through policy.
Sunday Table WorkshopsThe East Bay Greenway: Urban Ecology, Andrew Hyder Fauberg St. Roch Project, Drew Lang Chinatown Community Education Center, Lawrence Chang Art Is: Morgan State, Diane Jones and others Pantanal Medical Clinic, Randy Lanou Disaster Modular Housing, Anselmo Canfora bcCORPS Neighborhood Revitalization Initiative in Dolphin Heights, Brent Brown, Andy Sturm Lower Roxbury Community Center, AfH, Amelia Thrall and others East Biloxi Community Practice: David Perkes, James Wheeler, Vincent Baudoin Design and Food Justice: Tulane City Center, Emilie Taylor Green Schools in Portland, Sergio Palleroni Water-neutral Building, Ben Gates AIDS Clinic in South Africa, Ifeoma Ebo SOS Children's Village in Chicago, Monica Chadha, Studio Gang Architects Hospital in Rwanda, Michael Murphy, MASS
Primary school in Gando, 2001
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