Architecture for Humanity UK

images from edible places 2009

This year’s Architecture Sans Frontieres-UK summer school at the Eden Project will be a continuation of last year’s Edible Places summer school (http://www.asf-uk.org/case_studies.htm) and will be focusing on one of the most fundamental issues for the continued survival of human beings – food: where we produce it, how we access it and how we dispose of it. This workshop will explore ways of upgrading the urban environment through innovative and adaptable designs to respond to this need.  Through lectures, prototype designs and construction we will study the urban environment and understand how it can be more suitably adapted for sustainable living and eating environments. We will debate the possible natures of urban food cycles with Katrin Bohn and Andre Viljoen authors of CPULs (continuous productive urban landscapes), Clare Brass a social entrepreneur, product designer and founder of Seed Foundation and Adriana Allen (Senior Lecturer and Director of the MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development at the Development Planning Unit, UCL). We will discuss the importance of food cycles, and understand how they should contribute towards productive urban landscapes. By including social, economic, political and environmental issues we will place the development of the urban context at both an individual and collective level.

The programme runs from 12pm on Friday 3rd to 6pm on Wednesday 8^th of September and will be hosted by the Eden Project and ASF-UK.  The workshop will include visits to the world renowned Eden Project and exposure to the many excellent programmes they run. Lectures will be held by Katrin Bohn and Andre Viljoen (Senior lecturers at the School of Architecture & Design, University of Brighton Bohn and Viljoen ), Adriana Allen (Senior Lecturer and Director of the MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development at the Development Planning Unit, UCL) and Clare Brass (social entrepreneur, product designer and founder of the Seed Foundation ).

Participants will then spend two and a half days designing and building prototypes and products for a sustainable food cycle. The prototype development will happen within the public realm at the Eden Project which will be a great opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of food security for every human being. The ASF-UK team will for this workshop include Melissa Kinnear (ASF-UK and tutor at Oxford Brookes University), Peter Newton (Roger Evans Associates), Mina Samangooei (Sustainable Architecture Masters graduate), Caroline Dewast and Teresa Rodriguez (Architecture diploma students) and the horticultural team at the Eden Project. The cost is of £65 per day – £325 for the whole week which includes fees, food and camping cost ; there is and option for CPD training for £200 Saturday and Sunday food and accommodation included.

The London Festival of Architecture.

Informal Exchange comes to Speaker’s Crescent

To listen to details of the talk follow this link

Alan Baxter Gallery, 75 Cowcross Street, London. EC1M 6EL.
Tickets : £7 / £5 cons.
Refreshments available.

Architecture for Humanity UK is raising funds for Haiti relief efforts with a special screening of the award winning film ‘One Peace at a Time‘, by Turk Pipkin. This screening is part of the fundraising efforts by Architecture for Humanity International to help long-term reconstruction support in Haiti after the January 12th earthquake.

Providing children with their basic needs is a challenge in the developing world and the subject of Turk Pipkin’s thought provoking film. He spent two years travelling around the world documenting inspirational aid projects in developing countries. These include an Ethiopian water project, The Hole-in-the-Wall schools scheme, a model Indian orphanage and housing in the Himalayas. Turk Pipkin talked to key people commited to improving the lives of children growing up in poverty including Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Gayle (CEO of CARE International), and Cameron Sinclair (Co-Founder, Executive Director of Architecture for Humanity).
Music by Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson.

The event will begin with a few words from an AfHUK speaker on the latest developments in Haiti.

Cameron Sinclair, founder of Architecture for Humanity will be speaking at the RGS as part of the 21^st Century Challenge Series

Venue: Royal Geographic Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR

7pm, Tuesday 25^th May 2010

FLORA LONDON MARATHON – 26th April 2009
Your chance to run for AfH UK in one of the the world’s greatest races – and the only sporting event where you get to participate in the same field as the elite. Running across that finishing line will be one of the best experiences you will have in 2009 – so what’s stopping you?

Why run for AfH UK?

AfH UK believe in building a better world. We provide professional architectural and engineering assistance to groups in need. Our work benefits the vulnerable sector of society by providing assistance in building – for example – a food distribution centre in Bermondsey, a school in Ethiopia, or a home at Christmas for the homeless. By running for us, you will be running for a better built environment for all.

We have one silver bond place to give to a runner who agrees to raise a minimum of £1,500. We’ll support you every step of the way – two of our Trustees have run three marathons between them and are there to help you with training, nerves and the big day.

We will allocate the place once the ballot results are out, in December. Please register your interest in running for us with Keren Querfurth at keren.afh.uk@mac.com