Structures for Inclusion 14 by Urban Parsons

AN ANNUAL CONFERENCE FOCUSED ON DESIGN FOR SOCIAL GOOD. March 22-23, 2014

Parsons The New School for Design The New York City

WELCOME!

BROADCASTING & FORECASTING Now in its 14th year, SFI unites activists, designers, funders, policy makers and the public as change agents to address the most pressing design challenges of the world today, challenging participants to integrate positive change design in their own practices. Going above and beyond the green design movement SFI confronts design processes to consider the broader social and economic well-being of communities and cities. We have organized this conference from the perspective of â&#x20AC;&#x153;starting together on the groundâ&#x20AC;? in the urban situations and spaces where design and the social sciences overlap. In this dynamic intersection professionals and stakeholders face common questions with vexing properties that require creative interactions. We propose to start by charting out ways to set the operational systems for inclusive local political ecologies; shifting the debate from dislocation towards planning to stay; and designing the spaces and protocols that nurture cohabitation strategies. Therefore, we have simplified the Saturday panels into three themes: Political Ecologies, Planning To Stay, and Cohabitation Strategies. Each panel will begin with a keynote speaker who will give a 20 minute talk setting the design terms by which we need to frame and name the questions at hand, proposing ways that design and the social sciences might construct projects and policies that support structures for inclusion. Each keynote will then be followed by two separate SEED awardees that will have ten minutes to foreground details from their projects in relationship to the panel theme. After these two presentations, the moderator will invite panelists to share ideas while inviting comments from the audience.

SCHEDULE SATURDAY: BROADCAST SUNDAY: FORECAST All events for Structures for Inclusion 14 are hosted at: Parsons The New School for Design in the University Center at 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003 unless noted otherwise.

SATURDAY, MARCH 22 TISHMAN AUDITORIUM 8:30 - 9:00 AM

REGISTRATION & COFFEE

9:00 - 9:15 AM WELCOME Joel Towers, Executive Dean Parsons Alison Mears, Dean School of Design Strategies

9:15 - 9:35 AM

PRESENTATION OF SEED AWARDS SEED Award Jurors: Bill Morrish (Chair) & Esther Yang

9:35 - 9:45 AM REMARKS BY CONFERENCE SPONSOR Jason Schupbach, Director of Design Programs, National Endowment for the Arts

9:45 - 10:45 AM

PANEL ONE: Political Ecology Keynote: Anushay Said (PhD candidate in Public and Urban Policy Program at The New School) Panel: SEED Awardees: The Potty Project and Manica Football for Hope Centre

11:00 AM- 12:00 PM

PANEL TWO: Planning to Stay: Roots of Urban Alchemy Keynote: Professor Mindy T. Fullilove. MD ( Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University and Parsons the New school fro Design) Panel: SEED Awardees: Community How-to-Guides and Can City

12:00 - 1:15 PM LUNCH ON YOUR OWN

12:30 - 1:15 PM LUNCHA KUCHA Location: TBD

Bring your lunch and watch lightening presentations of 20 slides in 20 seconds. Session will feature five inspiring Public Interest Design projects.

1:15 - 1:30 PM

Special announcement of new PID funding opportunities

1:30 - 2:30 PM

PANEL THREE: Co-Habitation Strategies Keynote: Miguel Robles-Duran (SDS, Parsons TNS) Panel: SEED Awardees: Comunidad Ecologica Saludable and TAEQ Green Building Headquarters

2:45 - 3:45 PM

Workshop Session #1 Topics: Best PID Projects and Practices Political Ecology Planning to Stay CoHabitation Strategies

2:45 - 3:45 PM Public Interest Design in the Age of the Third Industrial Revolution (Room 306) Virajita Singh + Jim Lutz University of Minnesota, College of Design 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Workshop Session #2

5:15 - 7:00 PM Urban Encounters: Drinks + Design (Rooms 502 + 503)

SUNDAY, MARCH 23 TISHMAN AUDITORIUM 9:00 - 9:30 AM REGISTRATION & COFFEE

9:30 - 10:30 AM

SEED funds Announcement Autodesk Announcement Open Forum

10:40 - 11:30 AM Breakout Session #1: Tracks 1 & 2

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM

Breakout Session #2: Tracks 1 & 2 Breakouts will feature leaders in the field of Public Interest Design and a diversity of projects.

Track 1: What is the future of PID?

Join emerging and veteran Public Interest Designers to explore and discuss the future of Public Interest Design. Where are we going as a field? What is your personal vision for Public Interest Design? How will we use design to tackle critical issues?

Track 2: What to do Monday? Tools for PID

Learn practical tools to use after the conference from PID designers

SEED AWARD WINNERS

THE POTTY PROJECT Location: New Delhi, India Summary: In many informal settlements, a lack of sanitation is one of the major health problems. By applying an additive strategy, this project in a resettlement area of Savda Gherva significantly improves hygiene and strengthens social cohesion within the local community by involving the residents throughout the process. A pilot project commenced in 2012 to provide off-grid sanitation to more than 1,500 people. The issues addressed by the project also include safety for women, a problem increased by the current conditions. Team: Julia King (Lead Architect), Dr. Renu

Khosla (Team Leader), Sidharth Shanker Pandey (Programme Coordinator), Mr Zaidi Kumar (Chief Engineer), Maurice Mitchell (Academic Advisor) and the residents of Savda Ghevra â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Block resettlement colony

CAN CITY Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil Summary: Over 80% of recycling in Brazil is done by independent waste collectors called Catadores â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the many waste collectors who pull carts by hand collecting waste materials to sell at scrap yards. Can City is a mobile aluminum foundry that melts cans collected on the streets of Sao Paulo to cast new products. The project has been initiated in the largest city in Brazil as a self-sustaining system that creates better employment and additional income for Catadores. The small foundry is fueled by usedcooking oil and the value-added products created can be sold on the streets and provide additional income for this low-income group. Team: Alexander Groves, Designer; Azusa Murakami, Designer; Anya Teixeira, Production Assistant; Olivia Faria, PR and Community Organizer; Agatha Faria, Finance; Leonardo Giardini from Preserva Recicla, Collectors of Recyclables; Fabio Esteves; Edson and team from Foundry Metais; Juriaan Booij, Film Maker; Isso Ex, Catadore; Jejo Cornelsen, Artist; Paola Croso, Translator; Renata Padovan, Translator and Artist, Carlos Mancebo; Elcides, Catadore; Que Que, Catadore; Wilson, Catadore; Ricardo, Catadore; Alan, Catadore; Omar and Margareth Faria,; Richard Kovacs, assistant; Team from Heineken Brasil, Sponser; Team from Coletivo Amor de Madre, Project Production; Pedro Faria, Assistant; Fabio de Paula, Researcher

MANICA FOOTBALL FOR HOPE CENTRE Location: Bairro Vumba (Vumba neighborhood), Manica, Mozambique Summary: Manica Football for Hope Centre is part of the ”20 Centres for 2010” is the Official Campaign of the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. The objective of the Football for Hope Movement is to establish a quality seal for sustainable social and human development programs working with football as the central tool in the areas of Health Promotion, Peace Building, Anti-Discrimination & Social Integration, Children’s Rights & Education and the Environment. Manica Football for Hope Centre involved the community in the design process and provided forty-nine jobs during construction. The design reflects the vernacular roots of the area and allows for all-weather use, natural air ventilation and is built with readily available. The center provides a football pitch, multi-purpose space, computer room, and classroom for health, wellness, and learning programs. Team: Architecture for Humanity: Paulo Fernandes, Alina Jeronimo, Kevin Gannon, Mark Warren, Alix Ogilvie, Gretchen Mokry and Delphine Luboz; Jose Forjaz, Jose Forjaz Architects; Betar Estudos e Projectos: Sergio Martires, Engineer; GTO Engenheiros Consultores: Fernando Pimentel, Engineer; Martins Mariano, Engineer; Grupo Deportivo Manica: Shot Chikwandingwa; FIFA: Cornelia Genoni; Streefootballworld, and Ian Mills, 20 Centres for 2010; Greenfields: Franclin Ngwese; Yingli Solar: Ana Pardal, Yingli Green Energy Europe GmbH

COMUNIDAD ECOLOGICA SALUDABLE Location: Puenta Piedra, Lima, Peru Summary: Over 3 million people in Lima live in informal urban neighborhoods. Lomas de Zapallal is one such settlement in Northern Lima. It has a population of 27,000 and is divided into 19 neighborhoods. The Comunidad Ecologica Saludable (Healthy Ecological Community) program is providing residents of Eliseo Collazos with a thoroughly researched system to address multiple challenges of Empowerment, Green Gardening, Health and Wellbeing, Food and Water Security, Access to Nature. The project uses fog provides as a new water resource for drinking, household use and the irrigation of home gardens, community parks and reforestation. In the first phase, twentynine families will use this new source of water to create gardens for food as well as space to relax and socialize. Team: Residents of the Eliseo Collazos neighborhood in Lomas de Zapallal, Lima Peru Maximira (Marcia) Rodriguez, community leader of Eliseo Collazos; University of Washington Assistant Professor Ben Spencer, Dr. Susan Bolton; Dr. Joachim Voss, RN, ACRN; Jorge (Coco) Alarcon; Brooke Alford Leann Andrews; Shara Feld; Gayna Nakajo; Rekha Ravindran; Francisca Salazar; University of Washington students in the Design Activism Studio and Seminars

TOWNS ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY GREEN BUILDING HEADQUARTERS Location: Sakhnin, Israel Summary: The Towns Association for Environmental Quality (TAEQ) Green Building, located in Sakhnin, is home to the first environmental organization to arise out of Israel’s minority Arab sector, which comprises 20% of the total population of the country. TAEQ is a municipal collaborative that organizes funds and resources from the six participating Arab municipalities for social, environmental, and economic development. Located in Israel’s northern Galilee region, TAEQ serves the populations of these towns, about 80,000 residents. Acting as a cultural meeting ground, the green building hosts 60,000 visitors to its campus annually, including women, farmers, the elderly, school groups, teachers, university students, scientific researchers, city planners, employees of local municipalities and visitors from abroad. Visitors participate in workshops and training courses related to ecology and sustainable development. Team: Abed Yassem, Lead Architect; Riyad Dwairy, Architect; Hussein Tarabeih, PhD; Mayors of TAEQ’s municipalities: Sakhnin Municipality: Mustafa Abu Raya; Arrabe: Yasin Yasin; Dier Hanna: Samir Hussein; Eilaboun: Hana Sawed; Kaukab: Nawaaf Hjoje; Buine Najidat: Monir Hamudi; Dr. Shlomo Kimchie; Saleh Waked; Hanadi Higress; Said Khalaily; Bassem Ghanaim, Ali Osman

COMMUNITY HOW-TO-GUIDES Location: Detroit, MI Summary: Impact Detroit has developed a series of Community How-to Guides for communities and organizations that highlight lessons learned and share helpful information for new projects and processes. These informational guides seek to build the capacity of local organizations providing access to information that can often be difficult to find. The guides explain city processes that allow for communities to take action, be empowered, and build broader community support. Team: Impact Detroit and Detroit Collaborative Design: Ceara Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Leary, Virginia Stanard, Krista Wilson, Monica Chadha; Gaston Nash, College Core Block Club; Sam Butler, Community Development Advocates of Detroit; Michael Forsyth, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation; Sandra Yu, Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice; Lori Allen, Revolve Detroit; Rebecca Willis, Bleeding Heart Design

SEED AWARD HONORABLE MENTIONS Re: Dimen Kam Minority Cultural Heritage in China Website: http://marieannalee.com/redimen/

Walk [Your City]

Website: http://walkyourcity.org/

People Organizing Place

Website: www.bcworkshop.org/bcW/category/ neighborhood-stories-2/

www.designcorps.org/awards/winners

SATURDAY IN-DEPTH POLITICAL ECOLOGY ANUSHAY SAID

PhD candidate, Public and Urban Policy Program at The New School Anushay Said is an urban development consultant for the World Bank and the World Bank Institute. She has worked on various programs and across regions from East Asia to South America in the Bank on thematic areas including urban poverty and slum upgrading, urban and local government, governance and anticorruption, social accountability, social development and community driven development, among others. Anushay also works as a development consultant with other multi-lateral and bi-lateral organizations including UN-Habitat, UNDP, ILO, Cities Alliance, and with local and international NGOs. She has worked as an independent research with community groups and organizations in South Africa, Kenya, Mozambique, Brazil, Pakistan, India, Thailand and Vietnam on capacity development from the ground up.

The Potty Project, New Delhi (Workshop in Room 417) The Potty Project sets the ground work for understanding that In a civil society the structure of inclusion need to be designed to define safety places for a individual to carrying bodily function, of existing within the public body. As in Delhi and other cities women live in fear for their lives or rape to use a community or public toilet due to the lack of sewage system in slums. A wise public official once declared that the terms informal being applied the poor communities, is not a reflection of a local communities capacity to survive, but rather it is a representation of governments and civic leaders inability to serve a cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s residents.

Manica Football for Hope Center, Mozambique (Workshop in Room 202)

How can the game of soccer (football), the design of sustainable community built spaces, directed towards the desire to help the war war in Mozambique catalyze large institutional change of existing corporate and philanthropic agent methods of working. FIFA and Architects for Humanity have been in on the ground working from their individual perspectives to serve the needs for structures of inclusion in Africa.

“Rather than conceive of design and social science as distinct disciplines, political ecology asks us to collapse them into a holistic labor of giving form and momentum to processes. By decentering the object (a technology, a space, a policy) we may focus instead on the ongoing constitution of relationships. In doing so the task before us becomes one of devising strategies to shift, reinvent, sustain ways or relating that through our analyses we think might lead to better modes of living.” - Professor Christopher London

AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS Preparing for Collaboration Graduate Program in International Affairs Room: 404 Global Exchange Kimberly Tate Room: 411 The workshop is related to work with Kusog Tacloban, a volunteer aid organization operating in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. They have many on the ground rehabilitation efforts, but they are shifting focus to become an aid watch group. We are working with them to develop assessment and monitoring standards for project implementation, community involvement and rehabilitation strategy.

“Maintaining Place through Food Production” Jessica Kisner & Bonnie Netel Room: 508 Street food vending transcends conversations of food to that of stories of immigration. Maintaining and amplifying these cultural narratives lies between the moment of approach from the passerby and the exchange between the vendor and consumer. The street cart is the physical device for capturing attention at this crux.

PLANNING TO STAY MINDY FULLILOVE, MD Professor of Clinical Socio-medical Sciences and Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University School of Public Health Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove is a board-certified psychiatrist who is interested in the links between the environment and mental health. Fullilove began to examine the mental health effects of such environmental processes as violence, rebuilding, segregation, urban renewal, and mismanaged toxins. She has published numerous articles and six books including “Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America’s Sorted-Out Cities,” “Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It,” and “House of Joshua: Meditations on Family and Place.”

How To Guides -Detroit Collaborative Design Center (Workshop in Room: 600)

It is design work that converts the values and lessons learned from demonstration projects, reframing existing public and private sector polices and procedures, identifying missing gaps in capacity, and translating to different cultures, for the community at large. With thousands of hours of community workshop experience, network of community advocates and the design and building of spaces, this group has set back and reflected about what these experiences can mean towards designing basic city building policies and procedures.

Can City, Brazil

(Workshop in Room 305) How can the ordinary soda pop can which is pervasive across the community landscape be harvested, transformed through mobile low technology processing into new local artisanal products to enhance the existing local economy, open new tourist markets as a structure to help local residents maintain their capacity to remain in their neighborhoods? Developed by a young industrial designer this structure is not a building but, a modestly priced elegant portable street cart that uses old cooking oil to smelt cans into liquid metal that can be poured into sand models to form craft objects reflective of Brazilian culture and environment that can be sold to growing tourist trade.

“Planning to stay” is a principle and a problem. As a principle, it reminds us to make the city in which we find ourselves, and as a problem it challenges us to learn how to do that. We enter into “planning to stay” because we understand the horrific costs of incessant upheaval and displacement. We succeed because we learn to celebrate our friendships with each other and with the earth.” -Mindy Fullilove, MD

AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS MINDY FULLILOVE, MD Room 201 Citysteading and the In-Common Action Frank Morales & Braden Crooks Room 502 What is the role of shared agency in the making of urban ecologies? How do we design with communities and generate multiplicity, participation and discourse? What are the urban commons in action?

Rediscovering Childhood Aubrey Murdock & Molly Kaufman Room 310 Youth and young adults are our youngest citizens. Using exploration of memory and cognitive mapping, this workshop explores youth engagement and reframes our perception of youth as makers of the city.

LUNCHA KUCHA TISHMAN AUDITORIUM EPICENTER

Jack Forinash, Epicenter

FIT (FIT IN COMMUNITY) : A SOIL HOUSE PROTOTYPE FOR THE POOR Donghwan Moon, Mtree

RURAL COMMUNITY DESIGN

Nadia Anderson, Iowa State University Community Design Lab

ENTOKOZWENI COMMUNITY CENTRE, ALEXANDRA TOWNSHIP, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

Chris Harnish, Philadelphia University

RE: DIMEN, KAM MINORITY CULTURAL HERITAGE IN CHINA

Marie Lee, Re: Dimen, Kam Minority Cultural Heritage in China

12:30 - 1:15 PM

COHABITATION STRATEGIES MIGUEL ROBLES-DURAN Assistant of Professor of Urbanism, School of Design Strategies, Parsons The New School. Urbanist, faculty member in the Design and Urban Ecologies graduate program at The New School/ Parsons in New York, Senior fellow at “Civic City”, a post-graduate design/research program based in HEAD Geneva, Switzerland and cofounder of “Cohabitation Strategies”, an international non-profit cooperative for socio-spatial development based in New York and Rotterdam, The Netherlands. RoblesDurán has wide international experience in the strategic definition/coordination of trans-disciplinary urban projects, as well as in the development tactical design strategies and civic engagement platforms that confront the contradictions of neoliberal urbanization.

TAEQ Green Bldg. Hdqters , Gallile, Israel (Workshop in Room 622)

The design of this traditional Arab building and landscape houses programs themes about desert sustainability, intergenerational heritage and cultural traditions. Its beauty belies its true story, in inclusion in which six Arabs communities located Israel worked collaborative to overcome mutual suspicion, inter-governmental rivalry, funding issues, differences between elders and youth and a harsh climate to structure a an organization and a place to collectively search for common ground.

Comunidad Ecologica, Lima, Peru (Workshop in Room 311)

The project is landscape structured and designed integrate the local natural and social ecology, by harvesting fog droplets in a desert, channeling it through a system of food gardens and monitoring its growth by a global and local social technical network as a landscape structure of inclusion

“Why do we continue to reproduce and praise designers that are so complicit with the production of urban poverty? To a large extent, urban planning and design practices traditionally accommodate very little intellectual and practical knowledge that could help understand, let alone respond to, such urgencies. We cannot afford to operate in a world in which we hardly understand its modes of production. This will require an enormous effort from younger generations to enact transformations that host more equitable modes of urban living, which could overthrow the uselessness of what it’s been taught vis-à-vis the current conditions of our urban world. It will require a politico-ecological re-conception of the way we approach the city.” - Professor Miguel Robles-Duran

AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS MIGUEL ROBLES-DURAN Room 403 Prepared for Anything Devin Balkind Room 601 How community-based groups are using open source technologies developed for the world’s largest humanitarian aid organizations to increase their capacity to share information, coordinate resource flows and build knowledge commons at the local level.

Multi-Year Partnerships Charles McKinney, NYC Parks Dept; Sabrina Plum and Allen Phillips, Parsons Room: 303 This workshop will explore the potential of multiyear design/build partnerships between colleges and public institutions. It will provide insight into the collaborative process that promises to improve the public realm in underserved communities, while increasing the design and construction skills of students.

Share Everything! (almost) Dagny Tucker Room 503 The rise of concurrent economies (sharing, trade, barter, time banks and more) is transforming social and built infrastructures including the capital marketplace and business as usual. This workshop briefly explores the breadth and depth of the booming concurrent economy trend with specific insights into emerging examples. Participants will leave with an understanding of the current landscape, potential entry points for brands or designs and, perhaps, an even more inspired civic imagination.

SUNDAY IN-DEPTH BREAK-OUT SESSION #1 TRACK 1: WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC INTEREST DESIGN? COMMUNITY INTERFACE COMMITTEE: A PROTOTYPE FOR A NEW AIA KNOWLEDGE COMMUNITY ABOUT PUBLIC INTEREST DESIGN Room 202 Scott Cryer, AIA Chicago Community Interface Committee

ENGAGED PROCESS: WHAT MAKES PUBLIC INTEREST DESIGN DIFFERENT Room 305 Nadia Anderson, Iowa State University Community Design Lab

“PUBLIC INTEREST DESIGN:” REALITY CHECK: WHO YOU ARE/WHAT YOU’RE AFTER/POINTS OF ENTRY Room 303 Ellen B Rudolph, Independent Advisor/Project Director

“GLOCALIZATION” IN PUBLIC INTEREST DESIGN: GLOBAL RESOURCES AND LOCAL SITUATIONS Room 310 Laura Bowe Wheaton, Neighborhood Design Center

SOCIAL IMPACT DESIGN AND SOCIAL JUSTICE Room 201 Jess Garz, Surdna

10:40 - 11:30 AM TRACK 2: WHAT TO DO MONDAY? TOOLS FOR PID EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ARCHITECTS AND CLIENTS/COMMUNITY Room 403 Darby Morris, University of Michigan

PANEL: THE BUSINESS OF DOING GOOD Room 411 Aaron Bowman, LS3P Associates

IT’S MONDAY, NOW GET TO WORK Room 404 Michelle Bove, Inscape Publico

EVALUATING PROJECTS, MEASURING SUCCESS: THE SEED TOOL Room 417 Bryan Bell

*Please also see additional details for Sunday Workshops on a separate handout at the registration desk.

BREAK-OUT SESSION #2 TRACK 1: WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC INTEREST DESIGN? ENGAGING WOMEN AND COMMUNITIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRY AND LOW INCOME PROJECTS: LESSONS FROM PUBLIC HEALTH Room 303 Anita Shankar, John Hopkins University

FUTURE OF THE SOCIAL IMPACT JOB MARKET Room 201 John Peterson, Public Architecture

EMERGING MODELS OF PUBLIC INTEREST DESIGN: STRATEGIES, METHODS AND TACTICS Room 305 Mia Scharphie, Gilad Meron, + Nick McClintock, Proactive Practices

STRENTHENING THE SUSTAINABILITYRESILIENCE PARADIGM: DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR ENDURING ORGANIZATIONS Room 306 Chris Harnish, Philadelphia University

PENCILS + POST-ITS Room 202 Farzana Gandhi, Principal, FG Design Studio + Professor, New York Institute of Technology

11:40 AM - 12:30 PM TRACK 2: WHAT TO DO MONDAY? TOOLS FOR PID “SCOPING” A SUCCESSFUL PRO BONO PROJECT Room 403 Laura Bowe Wheaton, Neighborhood Design Center

BEYOND DESIGN-BUILD Room 404 Todd Ferry + Travis Bell, Center for Public Interest Design at Portland State University

DIVERSE TOOLS FOR BROAD ENGAGEMENT Room 411 Dan Pitera, Detroit Collaborative Design Center

RESPECTING CULTURAL DIVERSITY Room 417 Jamie Blosser, Sustainable Native Community Collaborative

SOCIAL IMPACT DESIGN AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT – RECENT EFFORTS TO GROW THE FIELD Room 310 Jason Schupbach, Director of Design Programs National Endowment for the Arts

*Please also see additional details for Sunday Workshops on a separate handout at the registration desk.