Spotlight South Africa: Three Designs Instilling Dignity & Defeating Stigma

Vanessa Quirk — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 01:00:00 +0000

How do you undo centuries of inequality? How do you overturn an inequality so ingrained in a culture that it manifests itself physically - in the architecture of its homes and in the misshapen nature of its cities?

A New Way to 'Make Architecture Happen'

Rory Stott — Mon, 12 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

In recent years, crowdfunding websites have taken the world by storm. Sites like Kickstarter have been used to fund books, films, products, and even been used to fund architecture projects, with success for projects like +Pool in New York and the Luchtsingel in Rotterdam. However, one drawback which prevents such 'kickstarter urbanism' from taking off more is the way the platform constrains the design of the projects: in both instances, construction elements are offered as rewards for the backers, who get to mark their contribution by having their name inscribed on the project itself. In response to this, other crowdfunding sites specifically tailored for designers have used different models for raising money. Spacehive works by leveraging the interest of local people in an urban project, doing away with the rewards system in favor of the implicit reward of improved public space.

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Spotlight South Africa: Three Designs Instilling Dignity & Defeating Stigma

A New Way to 'Make Architecture Happen'