Haiti needs lots of help right now, mostly financial and logistical; but design, too, can play a role. SpontaneousArchitecture.net is holding a design competition aimed at getting some of Port-au-Prince's destroyed institutions up and running again:
...People talk about emergency shelter. What about emergency institutions, only one of which is housing?
Participants in February's Spontaneous Architecture competition are invited to take this question seriously, enacting a response onto the site included below. The site includes multiple institutions and social, economic, and governmental infrastructures as well as residential areas and open space parks currently being used as campsites for those in need of housing. Participants are asked to consider one or all of the institutions present and can operate on the entire site or a specific portion thereof. Responses can be strategic, organizational, institutional, and/or architectural.
Submissions are single images, formatted in 8.5 inches by 11 inches (landscape), 300dpi tiffs. Images must be anonymous, containing no identication of their creators. Submissions may (but are not required to) include up to 100 words of text. All submissions are due by 11:59PM on 15 February 2010.
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