Estudio Teddy Cruz
http://estudioteddycruz.com/#!prettyPhoto "For more than a decade, Estudio Teddy Cruz has been claiming the urgency to radicalize the specificity of the political at local scales in order to rethink current global dynamics and their macro institutional frameworks." Democracy Collaborative
http://democracycollaborative.org/ "... a national leader in equitable, inclusive and sustainable development through and initiative that sustains a wide range of Advisory, Research and Field Building activities to transform the practice of community/economic development in the U.S" |
Elemental
http://www.elementalchile.cl/en/ "Our strength is the search for innovation in projects of public interest and social impact" using "complex initiatives that require coordination of public and private alongside participatory processes for decision-making." Emerging Sustainability
http://emergingsustainability.org "a forum for practitioners to facilitate the ‘emergence of sustainability’ from the bottom up." Guerilla Architects
http://www.guerillaarchitects.de "an international group working on the forgotten and unused resources of our cities." |
Architecture for Humanity
The Open Architecture Network http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/ "The Open Architecture Network is an online, open-source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design." |
URB.im: for just and inclusive cities
http://urb.im/about "The URB.im network is a global community working for just and inclusive cities. It connects practitioners in 23 cities and throughout the world to establish an international community of practice and learning, sharing ideas and experiences in order to innovate, replicate, and scale working solutions to the problem of urban poverty." |
Design Affects
http://www.designaffects.com/ "Design Affects inspires, teaches and connects people involved and interested in positive-impact architecture + design. We believe that design has the ability to improve the world we live in and make a more equitable, healthy, and positive future for generations to come." |
Design for Equity
http://www.designforequity.org/ "So often we operate under the assumption that our intention to work in the public interest makes our work inherently good, but this is not enough. We need to be more reflective about what we hope to achieve, and more honest about what we actually achieve." |
The Ghana Think Tank
http://ghanathinktank.org/ "We collect problems in the U.S. and Europe, and send them to think tanks we established in Cuba, Ghana, Iran, Mexico, El Salvador, and the U.S. prison system to analyze and solve." |
SEED (Social Economic Environmental Design) Network
http://www.seed-network.org/ A network of tools to "support a public-interest methodology that is increasingly recognized as an effective way to sustain the health and longevity of a place or a community as it develops over time." |
Impact Design Hub
https://impactdesignhub.org/ The Impact Design Hub aims to bring together those working in public interest, social impact, humanitarian, and community design, and provide a platform. |
Center for Urban Pedagogy
http://welcometocup.org/ "The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) uses design and art to improve civic engagement and demystify the urban policy and planning issues that impacts communities |
Project for Public Spaces
http://www.pps.org/ "Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit planning, design and educational organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public spaces that build stronger communities. Our pioneering Placemaking approach helps citizens transform their public spaces into vital places that highlight local assets, spur rejuvenation and serve common needs." |