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Ground Rules in Humanitarian Design
About This Book
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.
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Histories of Humanitarian Design and Aid
Humanitarian Design
Notes for a Definition
Christian Hubert and Ioanna Theocharopoulou both ground and destabilise the basic definition and history of what this volume discusses at great length as âhumanitarian designâ. Looking at the historical genealogies of appropriate technologies and âgood' design, as well as the contemporary discourse and emerging practices of participatory citizenship, Hubert and Theocharopoulou position humanitarian design within a broader social movement, rooted in late 19th- and 20th-century experimentation but once again emerging at the forefront of professional exploration, and argue it is important to substantively acknowledge the human component of its current manifestation.
We must elevate âdesign for the greater good' beyond charity and toward a socially sustainable and economically viable model taught in design schools and executed in design firms, one that defines the ways in which we prototype, relate to clients, distribute, measure, and understand. We must be designers of empowerment and rewrite our own job descriptions. We must design with communities, rather than for clients, and rethink what we're designing in the first place, not just how we design the same old things. We must constantly find ways to do things better, through both our designs themselves and the ways in which we operate as designers.Emily Pilloton1
Appropriate Technology and Design for the Other 90 Per Cent
What are these machines? ⊠various solar devices, almost all hand tools, bio-gas digesters, wind machines, greenhouses, various pedal-powered machines (including, of course, bicycles), composting toilets, and so on. The origin of these devices is largely either from less developed countries (what used to be called âvillage technology') or from the youth culture. The categories are not hard and fast; hand tools are preferred over machines, but small machines are preferred over big machines, and even big machines are viewed more favorably than very large plants.Witold Rybczynski2
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Introduction
- PART 1 HISTORIES OF HUMANITARIAN DESIGN AND AID
- PART 2 LAND
- PART 3 CRISIS IN HEALTH AND CULTURE
- PART 4 WATER AND SANITATION
- PART 5 ECOLOGY AND HUMANITARIAN DESIGN
- PART 6 LOCAL MATERIALS AND LOCAL SKILLS
- PART 7 SHELTER AND HOUSING
- PART 8 EDUCATION AND PRACTICE
- PART 9 ARCHITECTURE, PLANNING AND POLITICS
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Advert
- EULA