Housing and Community Development

Curry Stone Design Prize: Change by Design (HKC Free Webinar Series) 

01-28-2014 01:55 PM

This webinar is part of a series sponsored by the Housing Knowledge Community on AIA KnowledgeNet.

There will be a video streaming as part of today's presentation. Due to various technology factors, including the variety of internet connection speeds, you may experience issues in viewing this streaming content. please visit the archive page to access the file and watch the video at your convenience.

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The Curry Stone Design Prize promotes and honors designers who address critical social needs. The Prize champions the belief that design can be a powerful force for improving lives and strengthening communities. It is intended to inspire both designers and a broad audience by telling stories of change agents in short documentary videos. In addition to the videos, the prize gives no-strings-attached cash awards.

Over the past six years, the CSDP has awarded 23 three awards to designers who’s work range from massive post-disaster reconstructions, to using plastic bottles to bring light to informal settlements. Their projects illustrate a fresh view on how design can learn from the local context and make projects that, while solving urgent issues, are also empowering local communities.

Emiliano Gandolfi, Secretary of the Curry Stone Design Prize, will present more in detail some of these inspirational projects, with a specific focus to those projects that address the current housing crisis. Housing provides essential shelter, but also gives form to the social relations in our cities. It represents and embodies the materiality of civic politics and thus demonstrates the uneven nature of spatial justice at local and global scale. The Dutch artist Jeanne van Heeswijk – winner in 2012 of the CSDP - will therefore present two of her most recent projects that are rethinking the future of their derelict neighborhoods in Rotterdam and Liverpool.



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