Ground Rules In Humanitarian Design

Author : Alice Min Soo Chun,Irene E. Brisson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781118361436

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Ground Rules in Humanitarian Design by Alice Min Soo Chun,Irene E. Brisson Pdf

Delve deep into the complex issues surrounding humanitarian design Ground Rules in Humanitarian Design establishes essential foundations for thinking about humanitarian design and its role in global change. Outlining a vital framework for designing for impoverished and disaster-stricken communities, this informative guide explores the integration of culture, art, architecture, economy, ecology, health, and education. Experts on land, health, water, housing, education, and planning weigh in with best practices and critical considerations during the design process, and discussion of the environmental considerations and local materials/skills will broaden your understanding of this nuanced specialty. Richly illustrated, this guide combines graphic documentation of projects, maps, and data-tracking developments from Asia, Africa, and the Americas to underscore the complexities of this emerging and evolving field. The ambition to provide humanitarian architecture for areas in acute need is driving design innovation worldwide among both practitioners and educators. This book provides an indispensable resource for those engaged in the search for the sustainable inclusion of cultural code and compassion as a technology for design innovation. Learn how to approach the problem of humanitarian design Understand the cultural factors that play into development Develop a new framework for planning post-disaster design See how humanitarian design is pushing the industry forward While still in college, students are being given the opportunity to directly participate in programmes that provide vital facilities for communities abroad. While these international initiatives remain largely ad hoc, this book provides parameters for engagement and establishes best practices for approaching these projects with a global perspective. With expert insight and practical strategies on the ground, Ground Rules in Humanitarian Design is an essential resource for architects at any level.

Author : Alice Min Soo Chun,Irene E. Brisson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781118361443

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Ground Rules in Humanitarian Design by Alice Min Soo Chun,Irene E. Brisson Pdf

Delve deep into the complex issues surrounding humanitariandesign Ground Rules in Humanitarian Design establishes essentialfoundations for thinking about humanitarian design and its role inglobal change. Outlining a vital framework for designing forimpoverished and disaster-stricken communities, this informativeguide explores the integration of culture, art, architecture,economy, ecology, health, and education. Experts on land, health,water, housing, education, and planning weigh in with bestpractices and critical considerations during the design process,and discussion of the environmental considerations and localmaterials/skills will broaden your understanding of this nuancedspecialty. Richly illustrated, this guide combines graphicdocumentation of projects, maps, and data-tracking developmentsfrom Asia, Africa, and the Americas to underscore the complexitiesof this emerging and evolving field. The ambition to provide humanitarian architecture for areas inacute need is driving design innovation worldwide among bothpractitioners and educators. This book provides an indispensableresource for those engaged in the search for the sustainableinclusion of cultural code and compassion as a technology fordesign innovation. Learn how to approach the problem of humanitarian design Understand the cultural factors that play into development Develop a new framework for planning post-disaster design See how humanitarian design is pushing the industryforward While still in college, students are being given the opportunityto directly participate in programmes that provide vital facilitiesfor communities abroad. While these international initiativesremain largely ad hoc, this book provides parameters forengagement and establishes best practices for approaching theseprojects with a global perspective. With expert insight andpractical strategies on the ground, Ground Rules in HumanitarianDesign is an essential resource for architects at anylevel.

Author : Sarah A. Lichtman,Jilly Traganou
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000962840

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Design, Displacement, Migration by Sarah A. Lichtman,Jilly Traganou Pdf

Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices—spanning design, art, and architectural history; design studies; curation; poetry; activism; and social sciences––to interrogate the intersections of design and displacement. The contributors foreground objects, spaces, visual, and material practices and consider design’s role in the empire, the state, and various colonizing regimes in controlling the mass movement of people, things, and ideas across borders, as well as in social acts that resist forced mobility and immobility, or enact new possibilities. By consciously surfacing echoes, rhymes, and dissonances among varied histories, this volume highlights local specificity while also accounting for the vectors of displacement and design across borders and histories. Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories shows displacement to be a lens for understanding space and materiality and vice versa, particularly within the context of modernity and colonialism. This book will be of interest to scholars working in design history, design studies, architectural history, art history, urban studies, and migration studies.

Author : Cameron Sinclair,Kate Stohr,Architecture for Humanity
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Architecture and society
ISBN : 0500342199

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Design Like You Give a Damn by Cameron Sinclair,Kate Stohr,Architecture for Humanity Pdf

The greatest humanitarian challenge we face today is that of providing shelter. Currently, one in seven people lives in a slum or refugee camp, and more than 3,000,000,000 people--nearly half the world's population--do not have access to clean water or adequate sanitation. The physical design of our homes, neighborhoods and communities shapes every aspect of our lives. Yet too often architects are desperately needed in the places where they can least be afforded.Edited by Architecture for Humanity and now on its fifth printing, Design Like You Give a Damn is a compendium of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives. The first book to bring the best of humanitarian architecture and design to the printed page, Design Like You Give a Damn offers a history of the movement toward socially conscious design, and showcases more than 80 contemporary solutions to such urgent needs as basic shelter, healthcare, education and access to clean water, energy and sanitation.Design Like You Give a Damn is an indispensable resource for designers and humanitarian organizations charged with rebuilding after disaster and engaged in the search for sustainable development. It is also a call to action to anyone committed to building a better world.

Author : Ola Uduku
Publisher : Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1350138959

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Aid by Design by Ola Uduku Pdf

Humanitarian architecture – or the 'architecture of aid' – has seen phenomenal growth worldwide over the last decade, as architects have responded to an increasingly urgent need to connect socially responsible design to ongoing efforts in humanitarian aid. Whether providing ground-breaking designs for post-disaster shelter, or as part of wider economic development programmes (for example school-building in the developing world) – it is clear that architects have a vital role to play, delivering innovative design solutions for humanitarian relief and aid programmes. But how successful are these solutions? In the rush to offer a simplified toolkit, the complex challenges and long-term consequences of humanitarian architecture are often overlooked and under-examined. Aid by Design explores these questions. Beginning with an accessible introduction for architects to the field of development, it examines how architectural aid projects link to the processes of international humanitarian and development aid. It engages with the funders, designers, and users of today's aid-built interventions through a range of global case studies – including schools, hospitals, and emergency and low-cost housing – and reviews the architectural ambitions of each work alongside its ethical, social and economic consequences. By considering the real-world practicalities of culture, economy and development policy, the aim is to allow architects to better understand the successes, failures, and challenges of aid architecture and produce more workable, sustainable solutions for a better world. Case study practices include: Arup; Elemental; Open Architecture Collaborative (Architecture for Humanity); and Shigeru Ban, while case study locations range from Africa to South East Asia to Latin America.

Author : United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humaitarian Affairs
Publisher : New York : United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9211302293

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The Humanitarian Decade by United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humaitarian Affairs Pdf

To mark the tenth anniversary of Resolution 46/182 "Strengthening the coordination of humanitarian assistance of the United Nations", a seminar was arranged to discuss its successes and challenges. The proceedings of that seminar are published in volume one of this publication. Volume two contains a series of papers that were commissioned to comment on the themes that emerged from the seminar. It contains the perspectives of individuals and institutions, donor and developing countries, the NGO community and academics.

Author : Ayesha Ahmad,James Smith
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786992703

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Humanitarian Action and Ethics by Ayesha Ahmad,James Smith Pdf

From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and difficult environments. While humanitarian work has always presented unique ethical challenges, such efforts are now further complicated by the impact of globalization, the escalating refugee crisis, and mounting criticisms of established humanitarian practice. Featuring contributions from humanitarian practitioners, health professionals, and social and political scientists, this book explores the question of ethics in modern humanitarian work, drawing on the lived experience of humanitarian workers themselves. Its essential case studies cover humanitarian work in countries ranging from Haiti and South Sudan to Syria and Iraq, and address issues such as gender based violence, migration, and the growing phenomenon of ‘volunteer tourism’. Together, these contributions offer new perspectives on humanitarian ethics, as well as insight into how such ethical considerations might inform more effective approaches to humanitarian work.

Author : Esther Charlesworth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317690795

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Humanitarian Architecture by Esther Charlesworth Pdf

Never has the demand been so urgent for architects to respond to the design and planning challenges of rebuilding post-disaster sites and cities. In 2011, more people were displaced by natural disasters (42 million) than by wars and armed conflicts. And yet the number of architects equipped to deal with rebuilding the aftermath of these floods, fires, earthquake, typhoons and tsunamis is chronically short. This book documents and analyses the expanding role for architects in designing projects for communities after the event of a natural disaster. The fifteen case studies featured in the body of the book illustrate how architects can use spatial sensibility and integrated problem-solving skills to help alleviate both human and natural disasters. The cases include: Lizzie Babister - Department of International Development, UK. Shigeru Ban - Winner of The Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014, Shigeru Ban Architects and Voluntary Architects’ Network, Japan. Eric Cesal – Disaster Reconstruction and Resiliency Studio and Architecture for Humanity, Japan. Hsieh Ying Chun – Atelier 3, Taiwan. Nathaniel Corum - Education Outreach and Architecture for Humanity, USA. Sandra D’Urzo - Shelter and Settlements and International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Switzerland. Brett Moore - World Vision International, Australia. Michael Murphy - MASS Design Group, USA. David Perkes - Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, USA. Paul Pholeros - Healthabitat, Australia. Patama Roonrakwit - Community Architects for Shelter and Environment, Thailand. Graham Saunders - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Switzerland. Kirtee Shah - Ahmedabad Study Action Group, India. Maggie Stephenson - UN-HABITAT, Haiti. Anna Wachtmeister - Catholic Organisation for Relief and Redevelopment Aid, the Netherlands. The interviews and supporting essays show built environment professionals collaborating with post-disaster communities as facilitators, collaborators and negotiators of land, space and shelter, rather than as ‘save the world’ modernists, as often portrayed in the design media. The goal is social and physical reconstruction, as a collaborative process involving a damaged community and its local culture, environment and economy; not just shelter ‘projects’ that ‘build’ houses but leave no economic footprint or longer-term community infrastructure. What defines and unites the architects interviewed for Humanitarian Architecture is their collective belief that through a consultative process of spatial problem solving, the design profession can contribute in a significant way to the complex post-disaster challenge of rebuilding a city and its community.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9291399051

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Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ian Smillie
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780889369443

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Patronage Or Partnership by Ian Smillie Pdf

* A refreshing study of capacity building through various local perspectives* Includes studies from Mozambique, Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Haiti, and GuatemalaStrengthening local capacity is more difficult than one might expect; there are significant trade-offs between outsiders providing assistance in the midst of an emergency, and encouraging the building of long-term local skills. By critically examining the dilemma from local perspectives, "Patronage or Partnership" finds genuine hope amidst the prevailing rhetoric and confusion.

Author : ACAPS Staff,Acaps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1853398624

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Humanitarian Needs Assessment (Bulk Pack X 20): The Good Enough Guide by ACAPS Staff,Acaps Pdf

What assistance do disaster-affected communities need? This book guides humanitarian field staff in answering this vital question during the early days and weeks following a disaster, when timely and competent assessment is crucial for enabling informed decision making. Needs assessment is essential for program planning, monitoring and evaluation. In an emergency response, however, a quick and simple approach to needs assessment may be the only practical possibility--in other words, it needs to be "good enough". This guide does not explain every activity needed to carry out an assessment, but it describes the assessment process and provides a step-by-step guide through the process. It also contains a number of tools and resources that may be helpful when planning or carrying out humanitarian needs assessments. This guide is essential reading for field staff carrying out assessments after a humanitarian crisis; it should also be read by humanitarian policy makers, students, lecturers and researchers.

Author : IEEE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015023303343

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Industrial & Commercial Power System Technical Conference by IEEE Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Law
ISBN : OSU:32437121970632

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Minnesota Law Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Michael Bothe
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 767 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199658800

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The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law by Michael Bothe Pdf

The third edition of this work sets out a comprehensive and analytical manual of international humanitarian law, accompanied by case analysis and extensive explanatory commentary by a team of distinguished and internationally renowned experts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004431140

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Humanitarianism: Keywords by Anonim Pdf

Humanitarianism: Keywords is a comprehensive dictionary designed as a compass for navigating the conceptual universe of humanitarianism. It is an intuitive toolkit to map contemporary humanitarianism and to explore its current and future articulations. The dictionary serves a broad readership of practitioners, students, and researchers by providing informed access to the extensive humanitarian vocabulary.