The Arturo Toscanini School in Gravesend, Brooklyn transformed part of the existing parking into an educational organic vegetable and fruit garden. The project, completed in 2014, by WORKac includes three major components: a vegetable and fruit garden, a green house…
Architecture in Development is a community based open source platform. It is about collecting local architecture knowledge and make it accessible for everyone. It is also about learning from each other and collaborating. All the projects are collected on a…
The 7th World Urban Forum (WUF) will take place in the city of Medellin, in Colombia from 5 to 11 April 2014. It is the World’s Premier Conference on Cities, a non-legislative technical forum organized by the United Nations Human…
The Exhibition “Think Global, Build Social! Architectures for a Better World” is about contemporary architecture’s social responsibility. Far beyond from “star architecture”, the exhibition presents 22 examples of architecture projects that attempt to improve the living conditions of people in…
(This post is part of the project: “The Social Impact of Milan Design Week 2013″). Background It was in summer 2011 that Hélène Le Drogou, a psychologist and activist concerned with the plastic waste of the Colombian Amazon, invited the…
Cascina Cuccagna is the name of the XVIIth century farmhouse in the centre of Milan that creates exchange opportunities for people from different generations and cultures. It is a bottom-up project dedicated to culture, environment, food and social interactions. THE…
When a blighted city needs transformation, it’s usually a bulldozer rather than a brush that does the work. Few years ago, Edi Rama, Tirana’s mayor at the time, started in a creative way to paint the sad facades of the…
August, vacation time for antonomasia, inspired me for a series of considerations about Travel and Tourism. I love to travel, most of the people do! This makes us consumers of one of the world’s biggest industries: Tourism. For many…
INDEGO AFRICA is an innovative non-profit social enterprise, the name stands for “independence, development, and governance”—three life-changing attributes that Indego Africa is helping instill in 250 Rwandan women in order to lift them and their families out of poverty. The…
The human body contains from 55% to 78% water. To function properly, the body requires between one and seven litres of water per day to avoid dehydration. Globally, one every five person doesn’t have access to clean drinking water.…
Design for the other 90%, the name is useful to explain the global situation: while the richest 10 percent of the world’s population enjoys the vast majority of consumer goods and services, 5.8 billion people (or 90%) struggle to gain…
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