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– Design Like You Give A Damn Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises The book
Design Like You Give A Damn, founder Cameron Sinclair recounts the story from his early days of organization. Later around his work he was contacted by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees who told him that Architecture for Humanity was on the list of an organization that might be able to help a potential refugee crisis. Design Like You Give A Damn, is not atypical architecture book. More like an inspiration design manual which offers practical advice and over 100 case studies of projects that share Architecture for Humanity’s mission of building a sustainable future. Beyond chronicling inspired designs and against-the-odds
accomplishments, the book importantly offers a provocative philosophy architecture belongs, not to the architect, but to the people and the world for whom it is designed.
(# 15 Ref Article by Vanessa Quirk)15We would like to think it because we had already become a voice for humanitarian design - an unexpected touchstone in the movement for socially conscious architecture,” writes Sinclair of the incident.
“The sad truth is that until 1999, when our fledgling organization got started along with a handful of others, there was no easily identifiable design resource for shelter after disaster (# 16 Ref Design like you give a damn)16 15
# 15 Ref Article by Vanessa Quirk 16 Ref Design like you give a damn
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• DECCMA WORKING PAPER – ON RESETTLEMENT AND REHABILITATION INDIAN SCENARIO Clare Lizamit Samling (Centre for Environment &
Development,
Asish K. Ghosh (Centre for Environment & Development,
Sugata Hazra (Jadavpur University)
(# 17 Ref resettlement and rehabilitation paper)17This series is based on the work of the Deltas, Vulnerability and Climate Change Migration and Adaptation (DECCMA) project, funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) through the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA). CARIAA aims to build the resilience of vulnerable populations and their livelihoods in three climate change hot spots in Africa and Asia. The program supports collaborative research to inform adaptation policy and practice.
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