Cameron Sinclair, Habitat
Cameron Sinclair is the founder of Architecture for Humanity, a non-profit set up to seek and promote architecture and design solutions to humanitarian crises. For the last 5 years his team has initiated and implemented a number of programs including housing ideas for returning refugees in Kosovo; mobile health clinics to combat HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa; mine clearance programs and playground building in the Balkans; and earthquake recovery assistance in Turkey and Iran.
Currently the organization is running a project to build a soccer field / healthcare facility for young girls in Somkhele in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, tackling issues of homelessness and poverty in inner-city America and researching Rethinking Tent City, a project to create and encourage social and economic change in long-term refugee camps and large settlements through sustainable design interventions.
As a guest on BBC World Service, CNN International and National Public Radio he has spoken on topics ranging from sustainable development and how policy effects design to the global AIDS pandemic.
Cameron is also the co-founder and somewhat active member of the Uncoordinated Soccer League.
Bibliography:
Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises
www.architectureforhumanity.org/about/aboutus.html
www.worldchanging.com/archives/001841.html
More Pop!Tech art by Peter Durand of Alphachimp Studio Inc. at: www.alphachimp.com/poptech-art/
Cameron Sinclair, Habitat
Cameron Sinclair is the founder of Architecture for Humanity, a non-profit set up to seek and promote architecture and design solutions to humanitarian crises. For the last 5 years his team has initiated and implemented a number of programs including housing ideas for returning refugees in Kosovo; mobile health clinics to combat HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa; mine clearance programs and playground building in the Balkans; and earthquake recovery assistance in Turkey and Iran.
Currently the organization is running a project to build a soccer field / healthcare facility for young girls in Somkhele in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, tackling issues of homelessness and poverty in inner-city America and researching Rethinking Tent City, a project to create and encourage social and economic change in long-term refugee camps and large settlements through sustainable design interventions.
As a guest on BBC World Service, CNN International and National Public Radio he has spoken on topics ranging from sustainable development and how policy effects design to the global AIDS pandemic.
Cameron is also the co-founder and somewhat active member of the Uncoordinated Soccer League.
Bibliography:
Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises
www.architectureforhumanity.org/about/aboutus.html
www.worldchanging.com/archives/001841.html
More Pop!Tech art by Peter Durand of Alphachimp Studio Inc. at: www.alphachimp.com/poptech-art/