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While my colleagues on the ground in Haiti struggle to comprehend the destruction of communities, I sit in the almost eerie quietness of post-World Economic Forum Davos. For the past four days a coalition of attendees have pushed Haiti into every aspect of the annual meeting. Divided into two camps there are the long term economic development group and the NGOs, businesses and individuals focused on reconstruction. Given that we build after disaster, we fell into the later.
Collaborate for Impact
I've been pretty bad at updating this blog but finally have some time to link on some of the recent pieces I wrote for the Huffington Post.
California's first female architect
Dying to Work: Human Trafficking and the Construction Industry
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Originally published in The Huffington Post - Please comment there
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During a lunchtime assembly President Barack Obama will announce to students, teachers and parents, "I'm working hard to fix up your classrooms... ...but you've got to do your part too." Fortunately for him, a global network has spent the better part of a year already doing their part.
The 2009 Open Architecture Challenge, a biennial design competition, brought together more that 7000+ K-12 students, teachers and building professionals to work on upgrading and expanding their learning environments into innovative, cost-effective and sustainable classrooms for the future.
