DC Design Week: Design for Disaster Relief

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Design for Disaster Relief

Product

Graphic

Shelter

Software

Information Communication

Mobile

Telecommunications

Architecture

Multimedia Journalism

Technology

Caution!

Wan S. SophonpanichCommunity Architect, Openspace (Bangkok)

“Disastrous Design for Disaster”• unfamiliar technologies• too expensive• raise false expectations• don't follow established standards• inappropriate to local communities

Thoughts?

Response

Outsiders

With

Top-Down

Storytelling

Ideas

Recovery

Insiders

Against

Bottom-Up

Design

Action

vs.

Meet our Guests

ARCHITECTURE• Lindsay Brugger, Architecture for Humanity, D.C. Disaster Response

Project• Raed Jarrar, Architecture for Humanity, D.C. Disaster Response Project• Cooper Martin, Manager, Community Resilience, American Institute of

Architects

MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM• Joshua Cogan, Content Creator and Strategist• Jake Naughton, Multimedia Projects Coordinator, Pulitzer Center on Crisis

Reporting

TECHNOLOGY• Adele Waugaman, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Fellow & Independent

Consultant

Share:

• Case Studies• Success Stories• Failure Stories• Requests for Collaboration