structures for inclusion conference program
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Structures for Inclusion is an annual conference that brings together activists, designers, funders, and policy makers who are at the forefront of designing in the public's interest.TRANSCRIPT
FRIDAY, MARCH 23
6:30 - 7:30 SEEDocs PREMIER FILM SCREENING
SATURDAY, MARCH 24
9:00 - 9:30 REGISTRATION
9:30 - 10:00 OPENING REMARKS
10:00 - 10:30 FEATURED SPEAKER
10:30 - 12:00 PANEL ONE: PARTNERSHIPS
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH (BOX)
1:00 - 1:30 SEED AWARDS PRESENTATION
1:30 - 3:00 PANEL TWO: PARTICIPATION
3:00 - 3:30 COFFEE
3:30 - 5:00 PANEL THREE: IMPACT
5:00 - 5:30 CLOSING DIALOGUE
5:30 - 7:00 DINNER + DRINKS (On Your Own)
7:00 - 7:30 ADPSR RECEPTION
7:30 PEOPLE’s CHOICE AWARD VOTE
7:45 - 8:30 ADPSR MUMFORD AWARDS
ALL DAY PEOPLE’s CHOICE POSTER GALLERY (MEBANE GALLERY)
SUNDAY, MARCH 25
8:30 - 9:30 BREAKFAST KUCHA 9:40 - 10:40 WORKSHOP SESSION ONE
11:00 - 12:00 WORKSHOP SESSION TWO
STRUCTURES I NCLUS ION D e s i g n i s R e l a t i o n a l
March 24 - 25
FOR [ ] AUSTIN, TX
E m i l i e Ta y l o rTulane City Center
M i c h a e l M u r p h yMASS Design Group
G a i l V i t t o r iCenter for Maximum Potential Building Systems
C o l e m a n C o k e rbuildingstudio
J a m i e B l o s s e rSustainable Native Communities Collaborative
D i e g o C o l l a z o sArchitecture for Humanity
P l i n y F i s kCenter for Maximum Potential Building Systems
S a m u e l D e J o n gBNIM Architecture
T . L u k e Yo u n gArchitecture for Humanity
J o r g e A l a r c ó nNational Institute of Health
G r e t c h e n M o k r yArchitecture for Humanity
A n n e F r e d e r i c kHester Street Collaborative
To m a s i t a D u r a nOhkay Owingeh Housing Authority
D a n S h a wUniversity of Washington
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For more information, visit www.designcorps.org/sfi-conference/
STRUCTURES FOR INCLUSION IS AN ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOCUSED ON DESIGN FOR SOCIAL GOOD.
Structures for Inclusion 2012 brings together
activists, designers, funders, and policy mak-
ers who are at the forefront of designing in
the public’s interest. Dynamic innovators and
experienced professionals from around the
world are providing honest, inspiring conver-
sations and participatory workshops to help
us do more and do it better. Welcome!
SFI SOCIAL MEDIA
Twitter Hashtag: #SFI12
Flickr Pool: www.flickr.com/groups/sfi6
Live-Streaming: Thanks to The UpTake film
crew, SFI will be streaming
live from:
www.designcorps.org
Facebook: Join the Design Corps
Facebook group!
WELCOME to SFI 12!DESIGN IS RELATIONAL
Design is relational. It is not just about objects. It’s also about being
a catalyst to change human relationships and activities. Last year, at
our annual Structures for Inclusion Conference, Sergio Palleroni said
that 90% of the impact of his architecture is not in the construc-
tion. The positive impact is in the relationships, the empowerment,
and the activities created, in addition to the bricks and mortar.
This type of impact continues to be revealed, every year, at our
conferences. The presentations at Structures for Inclusion highlight
design work that addresses a critical social, economic, and envi-
ronmental issue. For me, the most successful of these presenta-
tions have been when an architect and community partner present
together and convey this relationship building as well as the physical
building. What begins as a combination of a need and a service
becomes a collaboration and greater benefit.
One example was the first rebuilding effort after Hurricane Katrina
devastated 9th Ward, by designer Patrick Rhodes and volunteer
students. There was no electrical power or water. Nobody knew the
fate of the neighborhood. But undaunted, Patrick teamed up with
Ronald Lewis, a local leader, to rebuild a small community center
that preserved local Mardi Gras crafts called “The House of Dance
and Feathers”. I saw them present the project together at Structures
for Inclusion 7, and the bond between them showed trust, friend-
ship, and real collaboration. I have to believe that Sergio’s comment
is true about the new House of Dance and Feathers as well. As
someone who grew up in New Orleans, I remember explicit signs
of segregation which may have become less explicit, but still exist.
I have to feel that the bond formed through the design process, by
Ronald and Patrick as they started to rebuild the 9th Ward, is an
example of love and forgiveness that is the real impact of design.
These examples at our conferences have been rare—their visibility
has been difficult to achieve, as some community partners seem
uncomfortable in public presentations. This year we have a new
method of showcasing the best projects at Structures for Inclusion
12 in Austin Texas on March 24 and 25. Six exemplary entries have
been selected through our annual SEED Competition for Excellence
in Public Interest Design. And for the first time, ten-minute docu-
mentaries will be made of the projects by the renowned organi-
zation The UpTake. The films will premier at the conference and
showcased in other venues throughout the year.
The goal of publicizing the best solutions is to emphasize that de-
sign is not just a technical service, but has unique ways to serve the
needs of the public—the entire public, not just those who can afford
expensive fees.
Today the design profession is at a critical point. We are on the
verge of becoming a technical service, too easily outsourced to
people who know nothing about the special individuals and unique
communities who desperately need smart design solutions. It is
time to realize that the design community has greater impact, as a
catalyst for building human relationships.
Welcome!
Bryan Bell, SEED
Executive Director of Design Corps
All events for Structures for Inclusion 12 will be hosted at Welch
Hall unless otherwise noted in the Extended Schedule.
WELCH HALL
1 EAST 24th ST, AUSTIN, TX 78712
GOLDSMITH HALL (AND MEBANE GALLERY)
399 22nd ST W., AUSTIN, TX 78705
ENTRANCE
CONFERENCE LOCATIONS
SEEDocs PREMIER FILM SCREENING6:30 - 7:30 WELCH HALL
PRODUCED BY: THE UPTAKE: CITIZEN FUELED NEWS
The UpTake strives to use fearless storytelling to instigate positive
social change. Through live-streaming, filmed documentaries,
social media and a live chat, the UpTake will take Structures for
Inclusion 12 to a new level of engagement with anyone anywhere
interested in design for social good.
FUNDED BY: THE FETZER INSTITUTE
SEEDocs are being funded through the Fetzer Institute, whose mis-
sion is to foster awareness of the power of love, forgiveness and
compassion in the emerging global community.
SEEDocs
The first of six SEED Project mini-documentaries, “SEEDocs”, will
premier at SFI 12. The documentaries showcase teams who have
made collaborative design for the common good a reality in their
communities. By translating design ideas and community needs
into realized projects, these interdisciplinary innovators have much
to teach us.
Through SEEDocs, we can start to redefine “design” with respect
to the Fetzer Institute’s mission. These days, designers are fre-
quently in love with the objects they create, but love, respect and
compassion for those who need their services is much rarer.
Just as the public now understands that the environment is a
design issue, we can register the idea in the public conscious-
ness that design is an act of service for the greater good, that can
further positive relationships in communities.
The renowned news team The UpTake brings these projects to the
Structures for Inclusion and through social media to the world
through compelling and authentic visual storytelling. These mini-
documentaries aim to show the real-world community impact of
these SEED projects. In the span of 10 minutes, we will hear from
both community members and project designers to learn what’s
working, what isn’t, and what other communities can learn from
their experience.
FRIDAY, MARCH 23
SCHEDULE IN
DETAIL
SATURDAY, MARCH 24
REGISTRATION 9:00 - 9:30 WELCH HALL
OPENING REMARKS9:30 – 10:00SFI THEME AND PUBLIC INTEREST DESIGNBRYAN BELL, FOUNDER + DIRECTOR OF DESIGN CORPS
SPATIAL JUSTICE AND SEEDBARBARA B. WILSON, Ph.D, DIRECTOR, UT CENTER FOR SUS-TAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
FEATURED SPEAKER10:00 – 10:30COLEMAN COKER, RUTH CARTER STEVENSON REGENTS CHAIR IN THE ART OF ARCHITECTURE; DIRECTOR OF THE POETICS OF BUILDING, A POST-PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM IN ARCHITECTURE; SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
PANEL I: PARTNERSHIPS10:30 – 12:00Public Interest Design is a collaborative process that builds rela-
tionships as well as physical objects. The value of relationships in
creating high-impact design projects will be shown in this panel.
Unlike traditional architecture, which often has one designer and
one client, partnerships allow people to be brought in with the
very specific skill sets and resources needed to address the many
layers of challenging issues that a community faces. Relationships
create a tangible value known as social capital. The best Public
Interest Design relies on social capital as much – or even more
– than financial capital to be successful. How does each partner
play a contributing role in shaping the result?
SPEAKERS
OWE’NEH BUPINGEH PRESERVATION PLAN AND REHABILITA-
TION PROJECT TEAM:
JAMIE BLOSSER, ASSOCIATE AT ATKIN OLSHIN
SCHADE ARCHITECTS
PAIGE MIRABAL, AVANYU GENERAL CONTRACTING
TOMASITA DURAN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE
OHKAY OWINGEH HOUSING AUTHORITY
ESCUELA ECOLÓGICA TEAM:
DAN SHAW, MLA CANDIDATE AT UNIVERSITY OF
WASHINGTON, SEATTLE
JORGE ALARCÓN, NIH FOGARTY SCHOLAR
MODERATOR
BARBARA B. WILSON,Ph.D, CO-FOUNDER OF AUSTIN COMMU-
NITY DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER, SEED CO-FOUNDER
LUNCH [ IS RELATIONAL ]12:00 – 1:00Grab your box lunches and network with some new like-minded
friends. Choices for lunch include: Turkey Havarti Sandwich, Fresh
Mozzarella Tomato Basil Sandwich, Roast Beef on Brioche, Ham
and Swiss on Rye, and Chicken Fajita Wrap.
SEED AWARDS PRESENTATION1:00 – 1:302012 SEED AWARD WINNERS- OPEN CATEGORY
MARIA AUXILIADORA SCHOOL – ICA, PERU
NYANZA MATERNITY HOSPITAL – NYANZA, RWANDA
OWE’NEH BUPINGEH PRESERVATION PLAN + REHABILITATION
– OKAY OWINGEH, NEW MEXICO
BANCROFT SCHOOL REVITALIZATION – KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
2012 SEED AWARD WINNERS- ACADEMIC CATEGORY
GROW DAT FARM – NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
ESCUELA ECOLOGICA SALUDABLE INITIATIVE – LIMA, PERU
OPEN CATEGORY JURY
BRYAN BELL, FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF DESIGN CORPS
EMILY AXTMAN, bcWORKSHOP, 2011 DESIGN CORPS FELLOW
MICHAEL GATTO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE AUSTIN COM-
MUNITY DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER
SARAH GAMBLE, DESIGN ASSOCIATE AT AUSTIN COMMUNITY
DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER
ACADEMIC CATEGORY PEER REVIEWERS /JURY
MICHAEL ZARETSKY, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ARCHITEC-
TURE, UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
AND INTERIOR DESIGN
LISA ABENDROTH, PROFESSOR AND COMMUNICATION DESIGN
COORDINATOR AT METROPOLITAN STATE COLLEGE OF DENVER
JEFF HOU, PHD, ASLA, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND CHAIR OF
DEPARTMENT OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, UNIVERSITY OF
WASHINGTON
SHARON HAAR, AIA, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF
ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
JOHN FOLAN, AIA, LEED AP, T. DAVID FITZ-GIBBON ASSOCIATE
PROFESSOR
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
PLUG- PORTABLE LABORATORY ON UNCOMMON GROUNDS-
MAHALE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, TANZANIA
DENMAN ISLAND NATURAL BURIAL GROUND- BRITISH COLUM-
BIA, CANADA
KIMISAGARA FOOTBALL FOR HOPE CENTER- KIGALI, RWANDA
GEEJGARH GYAN KENDRA- RAJASTHAN, INDIA
THE HEALING GARDENS- RIJEKA, CROATIA
DIGGING DEEPER- PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA
EMPOWERMENTHOUSE- WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
GUADALUPE SALDANA NET ZERO SUBDIVISION- AUSTIN, TEXAS
GURLEY PLACE AT JUBILEE PARK- DALLAS, TEXAS
HONORABLE MENTIONS CONTINUED:
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DESIGN ON THE EAST RIVER WATERFRONT- NEW YORK, NEW YORK
WEST HOLLYWOOD HOUSING- WEST HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA
FRESH MOVES MOBILE MARKET- CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
THE DREAMTREE TRANSITIONAL HOUSING CASITAS- TAOS, NEW MEXICO
PRESENTERS
KIMBERLY DOWDELL, HOK NEW YORK, SEED CO-FOUNDER,
MAURICE COX, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF ARCHITEC-
TURE, SEED CO-FOUNDER
SEED MEMBERSHIP DRIVE WINNER
JUAN SEBASTIAN RAMIREZ PARRA- B. ARCH CANDIDATE IN
CARTAGENA, COLUMBIA
PRESENTER
MARY HAYWOOD, DESIGN CORPS FELLOW
PANEL II: PARTICIPATION1:30 – 3:00Who determines the public’s interest in a project? Certainly the
public must have a voice in defining this. Inclusion and participa-
tion are two formative principles of practicing Public Interest De-
sign. These projects highlight meaningful participation by clearly
identifying the stakeholders in a project such as end-users and
community organizations. Including multiple stakeholders – and
meeting their goals – is one way to maximize the impact and value
of a project.
SPEAKERS
MARIA AUXILIADORA SCHOOL TEAM:
DIEGO COLLAZOS, DESIGN FELLOW FOR ARCHITEC
TURE FOR HUMANITY
T. LUKE YOUNG, PROGRAM COORDINATOR FOR
ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY
GRETCHEN MOKRY, PROGRAM LEAD FOR SOUTH
AMERICAN SCHOOLS AT ARCHITECTURE FOR
HUMANITY
GROW DAT FARM:
EMILIE TAYLOR, DESIGN/BUILD MANAGER AT TULANE
CITY CENTER
EAST RIVER WATERFRONT PLAN:
ANNE FREDERICK, FOUNDING DIRECTOR OF HESTER
STREET COLLABORATIVE
MODERATOR
NONYA GRENADER, FAIA, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF RICE BUILDING WORKSHOP, RICE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
COFFEE BREAK3:00 – 3:30
PANEL III: IMPACT3:30 – 5:00These projects offer tangible evidence of how design is effectively
playing a role in addressing the most critical issues, not just
the environment but directly addressing the biggest social and
economic challenges. Each project team carefully identified a
community’s needs and priorities, then maximized the use of re-
sources to strategically address them. In these projects, multiple
issues were addressed by the design response so that the value
of the design product was maximized. The many diverse issues
represented in these presentations give further evidence of the
great – but yet unrealized – potential of the role design can play
in shaping progress.
SPEAKERSBANCROFT SCHOOL REVILALIZATION TEAM: SAMUEL DEJONG, PROJECT DESIGNER AT BNIM ARCHITECTURE TIM DUGGAN, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT FOR MAKE IT RIGHT FOUNDATION
GAIL VITTORI, CO-DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL BUILDING SYSTEMS PLINY FISK, CO-DIRECTOR AND CO-FOUNDER OF THE CENTER FOR MAXIMUM POTENTIAL BUILDING SYSTEMS
NYANZA MATERNITY HOSPITAL: MICHAEL MURPHY, CO-FOUNDER + EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF MASS DESIGN GROUP NYANZA MATERNITY HOSPITAL
MODERATORMICHAEL GATTO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE AUSTIN COM-MUNITY DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER
CLOSING DIALOG5:00 – 5:30STEVEN MOORE, DIRECTOR, GRADUATE PROGRAM IN SUS-TAINABLE DESIGN BARTLETT COCKE REGENTS PROFESSOR IN ARCHITECTURE
DINNER AND DRINKS6:00 – 7:00 SCHOLZ GARTENDinner will be on your own, but we recommend Scholz Garten as a good place to eat, drink and enjoy good company. Note: Everyone at SFI is friendly, so make a new friend.
ADPSR RECEPTION7:00 – 7:30 MEBANE GALLERYArchitects/Designers and Planners for Social Good is hosting a re-ception with coffee and dessert before their awards presentation.
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD VOTING7:30 – MEBANE GALLERY (Polls Close)Cast your ballot to select a winning project from the posters on display.
ADPSR MUMFORD AWARDS CEREMONY7:45 – 8:30 – GOLDSMITH HALLAwards presentation with brief remarks from the recipients.
SUNDAY, MARCH 25
BREAKFAST KUCHA8:30 – 9:30 WELCH HALLGet your coffee and breakfast tacos, a local favorite, and settle in for a whirlwind of fast and fun Public Interest Design presenta-tions.
WORKSHOPS9:40 – 12:00Sunday morning will be devoted to the “How to” of public
interest design. We will have an exciting array of workshops
that get straight to the heart of using design to empower com-
munities. Specialists in grant writing, community engagement,
funding, SEED, disaster relief, design/build, design fellowships,
and grassroots planning and design will be at hand. These
discussion-based presentations will provide real world advice and
case studies to guide us to perform, build, design, execute, and
produce better projects. Two sessions of workshops will provide
an opportunity to find the topics that interest you.
SESSION I9:40 – 10:40(FOR DESCRIPTIONS AND LOCATIONS, SEE WORKSHOP INSERT)
SESSION II11:00 – 12:00 (FOR DESCRIPTIONS AND LOCATIONS, SEE WORKSHOP INSERT)
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD: CAST YOUR VOTE!
Posters showcasing this year’s winning and honorable mention
SEED projects will be on display in Mebane Gallery (in Goldsmith)
beginning Friday evening. We want to know which project you
think deserves a SEED Award. So when you have a free moment,
head over to the Mebane Gallery and cast your vote. The winner
of the People’s Choice Award poster contest will be announced on
Sunday morning during Breakfast Kucha.
SUPPORTING SONSORS
SPONSORS + APPRECIATION
SFI 12 STEERING COMMITTEE
MICHAEL GATTO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE AUSTIN COMMU-NITY DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER
SARAH GAMBLE, DESIGN ASSOCIATE AT AUSTIN COMMUNITY DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER
BRYAN BELL, FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DESIGN CORPS
MARY HAYWOOD, DESIGN CORPS FELLOW
EMILY AXTMAN, bcWORKSHOP, 2011 DESIGN CORPS FELLOW
BARBARA B. WILSON, CO-FOUNDER OF AUSTIN COMMUNITY DE-SIGN AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER, SEED CO-FOUNDER
ELIZABETH WALSH, RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF ARCHITETURECENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SFI 2012 HOSTS
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS - AUSTIN SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
AUSTIN COMMUNITY DESIGN + DEVELOPMENT CENTER
UT CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
FUNDING PROVIDED BY
DEEDIE AND RUSTY ROSE
SEED NETWORK
CENTRAL MARKET CATERING
AIA AUSTIN
TEXAS SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS
bcWORKSHOP
GRAPHICS COMMITTEE
DESIGN CORPS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
CONNER BRYAN, M. ARCH CANDIDATE, GRADUATE RESEARCH AS-SOCIATE, CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, UT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
MARY HAYWOOD, DESIGN CORPS FELLOW
EMILY AXTMAN, bcWORKSHOP, 2011 DESIGN CORPS FELLOW
CHARLES HORN, M. ARCH CANDIDATE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
JASON MINTER, M. ARCH CANDIDATE TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
ROBERT PARSONS, MASTERS CANDIDATE IN CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING AT UT ARLINGTON
PRESIDENT: DREW KEPLEY
VICE PRESIDENT: LAURA SHIPMAN
TREASURER/SECRETARY: MARCUS HURLEY
DIRECTORS: JIM HAMRICK, EVAN SUPCOFF, MELISSA TELLO
POOLE, STEVEN WEINSTIEN, CARA MAE CIRIGNANO, BARBARA
BROWN WILSON, SHARON MATTHEWS, JEREMY JEPSON
SEED NETWORK WEBSITE TEAM
A SPECIAL THANKS TO ERIC FIELD AND LISA ABENDROTH FOR ALL OF THEIR TIME SPENT DEVELOPING THE SEED NETWORK WEBSITE.
S O C I A L E C O N O M I C E N V I R O N M E N T A L D E S I G N
JOIN the SEED NETWORK!
We hope that the presentations and discussion will inspire you. We invite you to keep this conversation going by joining the SEED Network, a community of support. We also encourage you to take action to make positive change through design, and one way is to submit a project for SEED evaluation and feedback. Both are accessed through www.seed-network.org. Take a pledge and join SEED today!
SPEAKERS
HOW DO I BECOME AN SFI SPEAKER?
SFI speakers have submitted projects for SEED Certification us-
ing the SEED Evaluator Tool. Once they completed Part I of the
Evaluator, they submitted their projects to the annual SEED Awards
Competition for excellence in Public Interest Design.
Using the Evaluator allows communities to develop their leader-
ship and decision-making from within while using a proven method
and recognized standard of success. In addition to being a guide
through the design process, it also can provide a “stamp of approv-
al,” a third-party certification that the community’s goals are being
met. Resulting projects have demonstrated that they maximized the
positive impact of a community’s limited resources.
The SEED Evaluator can assist individuals, groups, designers, com-
munities, project planners and participants achieve like-minded
goals that are focused on the triple-bottom line of social justice,
economic development and environmental conservation. SEED
responds to the questions many designers face today:
economic and environmental
challenges?
needs of a community that validates
ethical and sustainable approaches to design through a triple-bot-
tom line approach?
vested parties in the design process?
To apply for project certification, start the process online at
www.seednetwork.org.
JORGE ALARÓN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH’S
FOGARTY SCHOLAR
Jorge Alarcón is an independent architect with
more than seven years of experience in design
and building projects. He is a National Institute
of Health’s Fogarty Scholar and the local design coordinator of the
Ecological and Healthy School project- a partnership of the Univer-
sity of Washington and Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
in Lima, Peru. During the last three years he has been doing design,
research, and construction for a social project in the slums of the
outskirts of Lima where he researches the impact of architecture
and environmental conditions on human health.
JAMIE BLOSSER SUSTAINABLE NATIVE
COMMUNITIES COLLABORATIVE
(SNCC)
Jamie Blosser founded the Sustainable Native
Communities Collaborative (SNCC) to research
and develop best practices promoting cultural
and environmental sustainability in tribal and rural communities.
The SNCC, an initiative of Enterprise Community Partners, is a re-
search and technical assistance arm to her architectural practice as
an Associate at Atkin Olshin Schade Architects, where she oversees
the firm’s housing, tribal and sustainable development projects.
Jamie’s work is rooted in community design. As an Enterprise
Rose Architectural Fellow from 2000-2003, her project received the
Harvard University’s Honoring Nations award and EPA Smart Growth
Award for Small Communities. The SNCC received a grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts to document five tribal sustainabil-
ity projects in the Southwest, including a green design guideline for
the Navajo Housing Authority. Jamie is an on the Advisory Group for
the AIA Residential Knowledge Community and received her Master
of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. Her work has
been selected for inclusion in Design Re-Imagined: New Architec-
ture on Indigenous Land, a book on contemporary Native American
architecture.
COLEMAN COKER RUTH CARTER STEVENSON REGENTS
CHAIR IN THE ART OF ARCHITEC
TURE; DIRECTOR OF THE POETICS
OF BUILDING, SCHOOL OF ARCHI
TECTURE- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
Coleman Coker, RA is the Ruth Carter Stevenson Regents Chair in
the Art of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin School of
Architecture. He has been awarded the Rome Prize from the Ameri-
can Academy in Rome and is a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmen-
tal Studies at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Coker
has been recognized by the Architectural League of New York’s
“Emerging Voices” series. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the
Memphis College of Art and in 2008 received an honorary Doctor of
Fine Arts from there.
Coker has been the visiting Favrot Chair and Professor of Practice
at Tulane University School of Architecture and the E. Fay Jones
Chair at the University of Arkansas. He was director of the Memphis
Center of Architecture, an urban design studio that focused on a
deeper understanding of the art of building through a hands-on
approach.
With forty years of experience in design offices—over thirty years as
principal of his own firms—Coker founded buildingstudio in 1999
after a thirteen-year partnership with Samuel Mockbee as Mockbee/
Coker Architects. With the formation of buildingstudio Coker sought
to blur the boundaries between architecture, art, craft and think-
ing—rather than separate disciplines, each is essential to the larger
realm of building. His work has received numerous honors including
National AIA Honor awards, Architectural Record, “Record House”
awards and P/A Design Awards.
DIEGO COLLAZOS DESIGN FELLOW FOR ARCHITECTURE
FOR HUMANITY
Diego Collazos is a Design Fellow for Archi-
tecture for Humanity currently working for
the post-disaster school rebuilding program
sponsored by Happy Hearts Fund & the SURA Group which benefits
underprivileged communities in Peru, Mexico and Chile. He fully
participated in the Maria Auxiliadora School project in Peru by ena-
bling the community participation workshops, monitoring the design
charrettes, undertaken field research, developing the architectural
design and overseeing the construction administration. With more
than 7 years of experience, Diego has been involved in diverse archi-
tectural, urban regeneration, architecture in development, research
and planning projects in a variety of locations including Bolivia,
Mexico, Turkey, England and Romania, making special emphasis in
social infrastructure, participatory design and community empower-
ment. His architectural portfolio has received numerous distinctions
including Bolivia’s biggest art venue the Santa Cruz Cultural Center
winner of a national design competition; or the small Raramuri
school located in the rural sierra Tarahumara which was honored at
the 3600 La Paz architectural biennale and shortlisted among the
best entries at the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge. He holds an
architectural bachelor degree from Monterrey Technical Institute
(ITESM) in Mexico and a building and Urban design in Development
Master Degree from University College London (UCL) in London.
SAM DE JONG PROJECT DESIGNER AT BNIM
ARCHITECTURE
Sam De Jong is a project designer with BNIM,
an architecture and community planning firm
specializing in deep community engagement
processes and sustainable design. Over the past 30 years, practice
dedicated to systems-thinking, green solutions for high perfor-
mance buildings, landscapes and communities led to the firm being
recognized with the 2011 AIA National Architecture Firm Award as
well as numerous other acknowledgements of national leadership in
advancing topics of sustainability. While at BNIM, Sam has played
a key role on numerous projects, including leading the design effort
and community engagement process on the mixed-used Rockhurst
University Parking Garage. Sam has also accomplished work on
award-winning projects in Greensburg, Kansas, that created new
models for the built environment in rural American cities. At Iowa
State University, he worked on a diverse team to design a sustain-
able village in Uganda, Africa. The project produced a new model
applicable to many villages in third world regions. Sam continues
work in Africa today, working with a community in remote Kenya to
design and create a new campus for a secondary school and min-
istry center. The project is focused on developing solutions that are
not only sustainable for its region, but create a new livelihood for the
surrounding communities. Sam joins BNIM with the shared belief
that interdisciplinary design teams create an architecture that is of
high quality, innovation and lasting positive impact.
TOMASITA DURAN OHKAY OWINGEH HOUSING
AUTHORITY
Tomasita Duran, Executive Director for the Ohkay Owingeh Housing
Authority, is a team member of the winning SEED project Owe’neh
Bupingeh Preservation and Rehabilitation Plan with Jamie Blosser
and Paige Mirabal. She manages the Mutual Help Program, 184
Loan Guarantee Program, and Cha Piyeh, Inc. (a CDFI). She over-
sees the Tsigo Bugeh Village Low Income Housing Tax Credit units
including the rehabilitation of 200 units, the development of 45
units. She has also been a key figure in the implementation of the
Owe’neh Bupingeh Rehabilitation Project in the Historical Pueblo
core area as well as the development of a Master Land Use Plan for
Ohkay Owingeh. She serves on the Tsay Corporation Board of Direc-
tors, NDC New Markets Advisory Group, and several Tribal Commit-
tees.
TIM DUGGAN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT FOR MAKE
IT RIGHT FOUNDATION
Tim Duggan, ASLA has been working in New
Orleans for the last three and half years where
he helped develop affordable LEED Platinum
Landscapes for the Make it Right Foundation. He worked extensively
with multiple community organizations and individuals at a variety
of scales, from regenerative residential garden designs to citywide
infrastructure initiatives that serve as showcases for sustainable
recovery and development.
His professional career began in the midwest with BNIM Architects
where he collaborated on a wide range of project from complex
community planning initiatives to sustainable urban design strate-
gies. His Landscape Architecture expertise is focused on the appli-
cation of innovative stormwater management techniques, sustaina-
ble land-use planning and comprehensive site analysis that includes
a thorough community engagement process.
Duggan has served as a speaker and adjunct professor on sustain-
able site solutions at Tulane University, Kansas State University, the
University of Missouri, Kansas City, as well as Community and Civic
organizations in Kansas City and New Orleans area. Recently, Tim,
was also featured in Metropolis magazine as a 2012 Design Game
Changer.
PLINY FISK CO-DIRECTOR AND COFOUNDER
OF THE CENTER FOR
MAXIMUM POTENTIAL BUILDING
SYSTEMS
Pliny Fisk is Co-Director and Co-Founder of
the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems (CMPBS), a
non-profit design firm established in 1975 dedicated to sustainable
planning, design and demonstration, now the oldest of its kind in
the US. Pliny is considered one of the originators of the Sustain-
able Architecture and Planning movement in the United States, with
contributions spanning four decades. Even though the Center’s non-
profit work is oriented around research and education it is unique
from the standpoint that it’s the prototypes Pliny has designed
have been published widely with many of the foremost designers
and leaders within and without the green movement. A brief list
includes; Thom Mayne , Frank O. Gehry, I. M Pei, Richard Meier,
Steven Hull, and product designer Jonathan Ive of Apple computer.
Similarly Pliny’s work in the planning and global issues fields have
been published with equally high caliber people such as Bill Mc-
Donough, Paul McCreedy, Amory Lovins, Jaimi Learner from Curitba
Brazil, Paul Hawken ,Janine Benyus, Vivian Loftness, Majora Carter,
Gail Vittori, Bob Berkebile, developer John Knott, and Ray Anderson
of Interface Carpets in the green business sector.
Due to his ground-breaking work Pliny has received numerous
awards including the only Earth Summit Award in Rio in 1992
shared with the City of Austin as the first Green Building program
in the world. It was the only award given to the US. He has received
a Presidential award for assisting in the moving of towns from the
Mississippi flood. The first ever Sacred Tree Award from the USGBS
for work in the public sector, The Solar Pioneer Award from the
American Solar Energy Society, and been a honorary Fellow at three
universities.
ANNE FREDERICK DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER OF THE
HESTER STREET COLLABORATIVE
Anne Frederick, as the founding director of
Hester Street Collaborative (HSC), has worked
to develop a community design practice that
responds to the needs of HSC’s local neighborhood of the Lower
East Side/Chinatown as well as the needs of under-resourced NYC
NONYA GRENADER ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, RICE BUILDING
WORKSHOP- RICE UNIVERSITY
(MODERATOR)
Nonya Grenader, FAIA, has taught design stu-
dios and seminars in the Rice University School
of Architecture since 1994 where she is a Professor in Practice
and the Associate Director of the Rice Building Workshop (RBW).
RBW students have designed and built projects at various scales in
the community, with a focus on affordable housing at Project Row
Houses in Houston’s Third Ward. The Workshop received the NCARB
Prize for the “Integration of Practice and Education” and the Col-
laborative Practice Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools
of Architecture. RBW exhibited their Ze-Row House at the Solar De-
MICHAEL GATTO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE
AUSTIN COMMUNITY DESIGN AND
DEVELOPMENT CENTER
(MODERATOR)
Michael Gatto is a registered architect and
LEED™ Accredited Professional who is co-founder and Executive
Director of the Austin Community Design and Development Center
(ACDDC), a 501(c)3 non-profit whose mission is to improve the
quality of life for all by providing sustainable design, planning, and
development services to low and moderate income individuals,
families, and neighborhoods. Prior to founding ACDDC, Michael was
intern architect and project manager at Foundation Communities, a
regional affordable housing provider, where he was a Rose Architec-
tural Fellow. Previously Michael worked as a LEED™ sustainable
design consultant on several municipal buildings at the Center for
Maximum Potential Building Systems in Austin. Michael earned a
B.S. in Chemical Engineering from MIT and a Master of Architecture
from the University of Texas at Austin, where he has also served as
adjunct faculty in the School of Architecture.
communities city-wide. Her unique approach to community design
integrates education and youth development programming with par-
ticipatory art, architecture, and planning strategies. This approach
is rooted in partnership and collaboration with various community
based organizations, schools, and local residents. Prior to founding
HSC, Anne worked as an architect at Leroy Street Studio Architec-
ture and as a design educator at Parsons School of Design and the
New York Foundation for Architecture.
PAIGE MIRABAL AVANYU GENERAL CONTRACTING
Paige Mirabal is a team member of the winning
SEED project Owe’neh Bupingeh Preservation
and Rehabilitation Plan with Jamie Blosser and
Tomasita Duran. Paige has worked for Avanyu General Contract-
ing for over a year. This rising company has trained Mirabal to be
proficient in adobe stabilization, sustainable preservation, mud plas-
ter, and documentation. Her daily tasks at the Owe’neh Bupingeh
Rehabilitation Project Phase II are to document the conditions of
the houses both before and after repair, assist in adobe stabilization
and preservation of the homes, and maintain quality control of the
mixtures of the mud plaster. “I feel it is an accomplishment of mine
to be involved in preserving homes in Ohkay Owingeh that my ances-
tors built”, says Mirabal.
Due to her skill set and asset to Avanyu General Contracting she was
selected to assist in a preservation project at the San Miguel Church
in Santa Fe, New Mexico as well as a project at the Sacred Heart
Church in Ruidosa, Texas. These two tremendous opportunities have
given her the chance to further excel in her expertise in historic
restoration. With her passion and perseverance, she remains eager
to assist with more preservation projects in the near future.
House at the Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. in 2009, receiving
second place in both Architecture and Market Viability competitions.
In 2010, Grenader (with RBW Director, Danny Samuels) received the
ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award and the City of Houston
Mayor’s Citation for Service to Project Row Houses. Principal of her
own small firm, Grenader’s projects have received design awards
from Houston AIA and the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance.
She was co-chair of the 99K House Competition which raised aware-
ness of sustainable, affordable housing and was sponsored by Rice
Design Alliance and AIA/Houston in partnership with the City of
Houston.
GRETCHEN MOKRY, ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY
Gretchen Mokry trained as an architect at Par-
sons School of Design in New York and at the
Architectural Association in London. A California
licensed architect, she has spent her 20 years
experience on the design and project management of educational
and civic buildings. At Architecture for Humanity her role
MICHAEL MURPHY CO-FOUNDER + EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR OF MASS DESIGN
GROUP
Michael Murphy is the Co-Founder and Execu-
tive Director of MASS Design Group, which is
a design firm geared towards improving health
outcomes in resource-limited settings. In addition to leading the
design and construction of the Butaro District Hospital in Rwanda,
which opened in January of 2011, Michael’s firm MASS has been
the recipient of the 2010 Design Futures Council Emerging Leaders
Scholarship, chosen as one of Fast Company Magazine’s “Master
of Design” and awarded as a Metropolis Magazine 2011 “Game
Changer”. MASS was recently selected as a finalist for MoMA PS1’s
2011 Young Architects Program and was honored alongside IDEO’s
CEO Tim Brown for its contribution to the field of design. MASS
Design Group currently has offices in Boston, Massachusetts,
Kigali, Rwanda, and Port au Prince Haiti. In July MASS opened
the Girubuntu Primary School in Kigali, and this fall it is breaking
ground on several projects in Haiti, including the new GHESKIO
Tuberculosis Facility constructed out of locally fabricated materials.
STEVEN MOORE DIRECTOR, GRADUATE PROGRAM
IN SUSTAINABLE DESIGN BARTLETT
COCKE REGENTS PROFESSOR
IN ARCHITECTURE
(CLOSING REMARKS)
Steven Moore is Bartlett Cocke Regents Professor of Architecture
and Planning at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches
design and courses related to the philosophy, history, and appli-
cation of sustainable technology. He is Director of the Graduate
Program in Sustainable Design and Co-founder of the University
of Texas Center for Sustainable Development. Moore is a Fellow of
the National Endowment for the Arts, a Loeb Fellow of the Harvard
Graduate School of Design, the recipient of an Individual Scholar
Award from the National Science Foundation and is the author of
many articles, book chapters and five books on the topic of sustain-
able architecture and urbanism. Moore’s sixth book, co-authored
with Barbara B. Wilson, Coding the Future: The Problem of Judg-
ment in Architecture, will appear in late 2012.
has included Program Lead for school programs in South America
and Africa and Program Lead for the Football for Hope Centres.
This series of twenty community centers being built throughout
sub-Saharan Africa, are dedicated to programs that integrate youth
development, health and education with sport. As Design Director,
she will continue to bolster the AfH mission of connecting high level
design talent with communities in need.
DAN SHAW UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON-
SEATTLE MASTERS IN LANDSCAPE
ARCHITECTURE CANDIDATE
Dan Shaw is completing his Master’s Degree in
Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle.
His work primarily focuses on cross-disciplinary design of urban
landscapes, including urban green infrastructure, brownfield reuse,
and community-based design. As a recipient of the David Streatfield
Endowed Scholarship for Landscape History, Dan spent the Fall of
2011 in Italy through the University of Washington’s Rome Center,
studying history of urbanism and water infrastructures in Rome. He
also spent much of this past summer in Lima, Peru, where he and
a small interdisciplinary team helped facilitate the design and con-
struction of an educational garden in one of Lima’s water-stressed,
peripheral slums. The project received a SEED Award for Excellence
in Public Interest Design. Dan’s recent design work also includes a
speculative proposal for a climate change research center, based on
a study tour to Japan; and currently, he is exploring the use of mu-
sic in the design process of a large-scale post-industrial landscape.
A native of Massachusetts, Dan earned his Bachelor’s Degree in
Landscape Architecture and an ASLA Honor Award from the Univer-
sity of Massachusetts.
EMILIE TAYLOR DESIGN/BUILD MANAGER AT TULANE
CITY CENTER
Emilie Taylor, as Design Build Manager at the
Tulane City Center, works to coordinate the peo-
ple, designs, and materials of the TCC’s built
projects. Emilie’s recent community
design build studio projects include the Storypod, and Project Ish
at Hagar’s House. The current design build project, a 4 acre youth
farm known as Grow Dat, is the City Center’s most ambitious project
yet. Emilie is a part of the founding team that established the UR-
BANbuild program at Tulane University and was the project manager
for the first four houses. Emilie’s education includes a technical
building background at the University of Southern Mississippi fol-
lowed by a Masters Degree in Architecture at Tulane. She is actively
involved in university design/build and advocates for the engage-
ment of such programs with the local community. Emilie’s creative
practice includes a documentary film on self taught builders and
exploring the intersection between formal and informal architectural
practice.
GAIL VITTORI CO-DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR
MAXIMUM POTENTIAL BUILDING
SYSTEMS
Gail Vittori, LEED AP, is Co-Director of the
Center for Maximum Potential Building Sys-
tems, a non-profit design firm established in 1975 dedicated to
sustainable planning, design and demonstration where she has
worked since 1979. She was 2009 Chair of the US Green Building
Council’s Board of Directors and currently serves on Board of the
Green Building Certification Institute. Since 1993, Ms. Vittori has
coordinated the Center’s Sustainable Design in Public Buildings Pro-
gram, including serving as a Sustainable Design Consultant for the
Pentagon Renovation Program’s Commissioning Team from 1999 to
2006, numerous City of Austin design projects including Texas’ first
public sector LEED® certified building, the redevelopment of the
709-acre former Austin airport including piloting LEED for Neighbor-
hood Development, the new Austin Federal Courthouse with Mack
Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, and the first LEED-Platinum certified
hospital in the world, Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central
Texas.Since 2000, Ms. Vittori has been a catalyst for several national
initiatives focused on greening the health care sector and advancing
environmental health considerations in green building. She currently
serves as a Co-Coordinator of the Green Guide for Health Care and
is Founding Chair of the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED for
Healthcare core committee (2004-2008).Ms. Vittori was a Loeb Fel-
low at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design from 1998-
1999, and attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
where she studied economics. Ms. Vittori is on the advisory boards
of Natural Home magazine and Environmental Building News. She
is co-author, with Robin Guenther FAIA, of Sustainable Healthcare
Architecture, published by Wiley and Sons in 2008, was featured as
an Innovator: Building a Greener World in TIME Magazine in March
2007 and, with Pliny Fisk III, in Texas Monthly’s 35th year anniver-
sary issue (February 2008) in the article ‘35 People Who Will Shape
Our Future’. In 2009, Secretary Janet Napolitano appointed Ms.
Vittori to the Department of Homeland Security’s Sustainability and
Efficiency Task Force.
T. LUKE YOUNG PROGRAM COORDINATOR FOR
ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY
T. Luke Young is a Program Coordinator with
Architecture for Humanity with more than 13
years of experience in architecture, urban plan-
ning, and social infrastructure design. He has worked primarily in
Latin America, Asia and the U.S. Through his work he has integrated
participatory planning, vernacular architecture and innovative
design concepts to foster urban settlement initiatives that include
residents, are sensitive to their culture and needs, and respect the
natural and built environment. He has worked with Architecture for
Humanity since 2009 when in partnership with two collaborators
was awarded the Founder’s Prize in the 2009 Open Architecture
Challenge and again in 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He earned
a Bachelor degree in Historic Preservation from Roger Williams
University, a Master in Architectural Studies and a Master in Urban
Planning, both from MIT.
BARBARA B. WILSON, PHD
DIRECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
TEXAS CENTER FOR SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT
(MODERATOR)
Wilson is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development
(CSD) and an Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Plan-
ning and Sustainable Design in the University of Texas at Austin
School of Architecture. She has a PhD in Community and Regional
Planning and a Masters in Architectural History from UT, and her
research interests include value-based building codes, sustainable
community development, and green affordable housing. In addition
to administering the research, education, and outreach efforts at
the CSD generally, Wilson also oversees the Public Interest Design
Summer Program and the Central Texas Sustainability Indicators
Project. She is a co-founder of the Austin Community Design and
Development Center, a nonprofit design center that provides high
quality green design and planning services to lower income house-
holds and the organizations that serve them. Dr. Wilson is passion-
ate about serving her community and recently received the Bank of
America Local Hero award for her efforts in Austin.
SEED AWARD WINNERS
2012 SEED COMPETITION DETAILS
6 winning projects were selected from 45 entries from 14 countries.
“These projects offer tangible evidence of how design is effectively
playing a role in addressing the most critical issues around the
globe, not just the environmental but directly addressing the biggest
social and economic challenges. Each project team carefully identi-
fied a community’s needs and priorities, then maximized the use of
resources to strategically address these. In the winning projects,
multiple issues were addressed by the design response so that posi-
tive impact was maximized.” - Bryan Bell, Co-founder of SEED Network
Projects selected for presentation at SFI represent the best exam-
ples of meeting the SEED Mission and Principles. This is deter-
mined by using the SEED®Evaluator, The SEED Evaluator is a com-
munication tool that allows communities to define goals for design
projects and then measure the success in achieving these through a
third-party review. This process can be of critical value to communi-
ties, designers and architects who want to ensure they are develop-
ing projects in the public’s interest.
SEED MISSION
SEED’s Mission: Every person should be able to live in a socially,
economically and environmentallly healthy community.
6 SEED PRINCIPLES:
1: Advocate with those who have a limited voice in public life
2: Build structures for inclusion that engage stakeholders and
allow communities to make decisions.
3: Promote social equality through discourse that reflects a
range of values and social identities.
4: Generate ideas that grow from place and build local capacity.
5: Design to help conserve resources and minimize waste.
BANCROFT SCHOOL REVITALIZATION
TEAM BNIM ARCHITECTURE + PLANNING, DALMARK
DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT GROUP, MAKE IT RIGHT,
GREEN IMPACT ZONE, HISTORIC MANHEIM PARK ASSOCIATION,
JE DUNN CONSTRUCTION, TRUMAN MEDICAL GROUP
REPRESENTATIVE SPEAKERS SAMUEL DE JONG + TIM DUGGAN
LOCATION KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
ISSUES ADDRESSED UNEMPLOYMENT, HEALTH, ENERGY EFFI-
CIENCY, CRIME, HISTORIC PRESERVATION, COMMUNITY REVITALI-
ZATION, HOUSING
This ambitious project includes three main parts: the preservation
and rehabilitation of the existing Bancroft School, site improve-
ments to accommodate new community spaces and parking needs,
and construction of new housing unites in the Historic Manheim
Park Neighborhood.
NYANZA MATERNITY HOSPITAL
TEAM MASS DESIGN GROUP, UNICEF, TRANSSOLAR KILMA ENGI-
NEERING, NYANZA HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION
REPRESENTATIVE SPEAKER MICHAEL MURPHY
LOCATION NYANZA, RWANDA
ISSUES ADDRESSED POVERTY, INFANT AND MOTHER MORTAL-
ITY, LACK OF MEDICAL FACILITIES, UNEMPLOYMENT, HEALTH,
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
This project aims to provide health care opportunities to an under-
served population, control the spread of infectious diseases using
a new system of passive ventilation, and promote human dignity
through design that empowers users and community members.
ESCUELA ECOLOGICA
TEAM UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (DEPARMENT OF LANDSCAPE
ARCHITECTURE, DEPARTMENT OF GLOBAL HEALTH, SCHOOL OF
FOREST RESOURCES, GLOBAL HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL FEL-
LOWS), ARCHITECTS WITHOUT BORDERS- SEATTLE, UNIVERSIDAD
NACIONAL MAYOR DE SAN MARCOS/FUNDACIÓN DE SAN MARCOS,
ESCUELA PITAGORUS #8183, COPASED DE ZAPALLA
REPRESENTATIVE SPEAKERS JORGE ALARCÓN, DAN SHAW
LOCATION LOMAS DE ZAPALLAL, LIMA, PERU
ISSUES ADDRESSED ECOLOGICAL EDUCATION, HEALTH, SUSTAIN-
ABLE BUILDING PRACTICES, UNEMPLOYMENT, YOUTH DELIN-
QUENCY, SINGLE PARENT FAMILIES, MALNUTRITION, SANITATION,
LACK OF CLEAN WATER, OVERCROWDING, LACK OF PUBLIC GREEN
SPACE, LACK OF DURABLE HOUSING, INADEQUATE HEALTH AND
EDUCATION SERVICES
The Ecological and Healthy School Initiative encompasses the
design and construction of Pitagoras Primary School Park and of a
new classroom building with 10 modular classrooms. Both designs
incorporate numerous sustainable building strategies including
a grey water filtration system and a hydrocarbon densifying play
mechanism.
OWE’NEH BUPINGEH PRESERVATION PLAN
AND REHABILITATION PROJECT
TEAM ATKINS OLSHIN SCHADE ARCHITECTS, THE OHKAY
OWINGEH HOUSING AUTHORITY
REPRESENTATIVE SPEAKERS JAMIE BLOSSER, TOMASITA DURAN,
PAIGE MIRABAL
LOCATION OKAY OWINGEH, NEW MEXICO
ISSUES ADDRESSED CULTURAL HERITAGE, HISTORIC PRESERVA-
TION, EDUCATION, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, JOB TRAINING, COM-
MUNITY BUILDING, LOCAL IDENTITY
This project’s focus was to re-create a more vital Pueblo center and
reinvigorate cultural heritage traditions through the rehabilitation of
the historic Pueblo core. The pueblo core is the spiritual, social and
cultural center of the Pueblo. Community members were trained in
traditional building techniques and played a key role in rebuilding
the houses and community spaces. The project also re-appropriated
preservation practices and treatment of the Pueblos’ cultural
resources from federal guidelines to what is appropriate for Ohkay
Owingeh.
MARIA AUXILIADORA SCHOOL
TEAM ARCHITECTURE FOR HUMANITY, HAPPY HEARTS FUND, ING-
INTEGRA PERU, MARIA AUXILIADORA SCHOOL, LOS CALDERONES
COMMUNITY, TATE MUNICIPALITY
REPRESENTATIVE SPEAKERS DIEGO COLLAZOS, T. LUKE YOUNG,
GRETCHEN MOKRY
LOCATION ICA, PERU
ISSUES ADDRESSED EDUCATION, POVERTY, EMPLOYMENT, COM-
MUNITY EMPOWERMENT, LOCAL IDENTITY, SOCIAL TOLERANCE
This project addresses the inferior quality of school infrastructure
that existed before and especially after an earthquake hit the Los
Calderones community in 2007. The team used unique strategies
to engage, excite and educate a broad spectrum of community
members from children to teachers throughout the design process.
GROW DAT YOUTH FARM
TEAM TULANE UNIVERSITY CITY CENTER, GROW DAT YOUTH
FARM, NEW ORLEANS CITY PARK
REPRESENTATIVE SPEAKER EMILIE TAYLOR
LOCATION NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
ISSUES ADDRESSED EDUCATION, CRIME, POVERTY, YOUTH EM-
POWERMENT AND EMPLOYMENT, OBESITY, GREEN GARDENING,
HEALTH, FOOD DESERTS
Grow Dat is a 4 acre farm where people from different backgrounds
and disciplines come together in research and practice to support
public health, local economies and a sustainable food system. The
mission is to nurture a diverse group of young leaders through the
meaningful work of growing food. High school students work as
Crew Members that learn to plant, harvest, cook, and participate
in leadership training classes. All of the Crew Members are paid
for their work and this program is meant to act as a job training
program for high schoolers.
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