Join Cameron Sinclair, co-Founder of Architecture for Humanity, and Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, as they celebrate the launch of the second volume of Design Like You Give a Damn.

About Design Like You Give A Damn:

Design Like You Give a Damn [2]: Building Change from the Ground Up is an indispensable guide for anyone engaged in the search for a more sustainable future. Edited by the renowned nonprofit design services firm Architecture for Humanity, the book documents over 100 exemplary projects from around the world, and is packed with practical and ingenious design solutions that address the need for disaster reconstruction, basic shelter, education, access to food, health care, clean water, renewable energy, and cultural gathering spaces. It also features personal interviews and provocative case studies that demonstrate how innovative design is reimagining community and uplifting lives.

From swing sets in refugee shelters to a coed skate park in war-torn Afghanistan; an elevated railway transformed into a New York City public park to environmentally friendly baskets of household items for Hurricane Katrina survivors; building material innovations such as smog-eating concrete to innovative public policy that is repainting Brazil's urban slums, Design Like You Give a Damn [2] proves that design is the ultimate renewable resource.

Together with Architecture for Humanity's first book, Design Like You Give a Damn, the two volumes are an essential resource for designers, architects, planners, local policy makers, educators, and anyone seeking to build change from the ground up.

About Architecture for Humanity:

Architecture for Humanity is a nonprofit design services firm founded in 1999 by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr. As of 2011, more than 2 million people live, learn, heal, or work in the 2,250 buildings built by their design and construction professionals. By tapping a network of more than 50,000 professionals willing to lend time and expertise to help those who would not otherwise be able to afford their services, Architecture for Humanity brings design, construction, and development services where they are needed most critically. Together, they are building a more sustainable future through the power of professional design. For more information visit www.architectureforhumanity.org.

About Cameron Sinclair, co-founder and "chief eternal optimist" (CEO):

Cameron Sinclair was trained as an architect at the University of Westminster and at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. During his studies, Sinclair developed an interest in social, cultural, and humanitarian design. His postgraduate thesis focused on providing shelter to New York's homeless through sustainable, transitional housing. After his studies, he moved to New York where he worked as a designer and project architect.

Sinclair and Architecture for Humanity co-founder Kate Stohr compiled a bestselling book Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises. Sinclair is heavily involved in bringing socially relevant building into academia and serves on advisory boards of the Acumen Fund, the Institute for State Effectiveness and the Ontario College of Art and Design.

Sinclair is a TED prize recipient and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. In 2008, Architecture for Humanity and its co-founders Sinclair and Stohr were named as recipients of the Design Patron Award for the National Design Awards. The following year, Sinclair and Stohr were jointly awarded the Bicentenary Medal by the Royal Society of Arts for increasing people's resourcefulness.

As a result of the 2006 TED Prize, Architecture for Humanity launched the Open Architecture Network, the world's first open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design. Every two years this network hosts a global challenge to tackle a systemic issue within the built environment.

About Paul D. Miller:

Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, is a composer, multimedia artist, and writer. His written work has appeared in The Village Voice, The Source, Artforum, and Wired, amongst other publications. Miller's work as a media artist has appeared in a wide variety of contexts such as the Whitney Biennial; The Venice Biennial for Architecture (2000); the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany; Kunsthalle, Vienna; and The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. In 2011, Miller released a graphic design project exploring the impact of climate change on Antarctica through the prism of digital media and contemporary music compositions, or "acoustic portraits," of Antarctica entitled The Book Of Ice, included in the 2011 Gwangju Biennial by Korean architect Seung H-Sang and Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei. Miller is currently a Contributing Editor to C-Theory and the Arts Editor of Origin Magazine, which focuses on the intersection of art, yoga and new ideas.

Tweet