Thursday, January 21, 2010

Haiti and the design community: To the Planning and Drafting Tables?


Millions are in danger in Haiti. What do planners and designers and architects have to say about the rebuilding of Haiti? $10 billion to do that. Listen to the discussion. These are times when the design, software, engineering and planning communities need to reach out to agencies who are working 24/7 to help Haitians survive, help those hundreds of thousands injured, and how to reclaim some vision for the more than 200,000 who have probably been killed after the first shock waves of the earth quake.


Haiti's catastrophe has killed thousands and destroyed Port-au-Prince, once a jewel in the Caribbean. We look at the architecture past, present and -- possibly -- future in Haiti's heart. Is there a design solution to the desperate need for low-cost housing in overpopulated cities? Can good design trump political mayhem? We hear from experts here and from Haiti: historian Patrick Sylvain, Architecture for Humanity's founder Cameron Sinclair, Global Green's Ted Bardacke, Alejandra Lillo, co-creator of Make It Right, and others.


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