Bustler: Design with the Other 90%: CITIES Opening October 15 at the United Nations

Design with the Other 90%: CITIES Opening October 15 at the United Nations

Posted: Monday, October 03, 2011

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Garden-in-a-Sack: Solidarités International. Funders: European Union and Agence Française de Développement. Kibera, Mathare, Kiambiu, and Mukuru Lunga-Lunga informal settlements, Nairobi, Kenya, 2008-present. Photo: © Solidarités International

Kibera Public Space Projects: Architects: Chelina Odbert (USA), Jennifer Toy (USA), Arthur Adeya (Kenya), Luke Clark Tyler (USA), Anthony Opil (Kenya), Julius Muiru (Kenya), Ellen Schneider (USA), and Kotch Voraakhom (Thailand), Kounkuey Design Initiative; environmental engineers: Byron Stigge, Joe Mulligan, and Greg Tuzzolo, Buro Happold; volunteer collaborators: Yvonne Hung, Jean Yang. Clients/community partners: Kiki Weavers, New Nairobi Dam Community Group, Riverside Usafi Group, Ushirika Wa Usafi, Youth Development Forum. Former dumping site on border of Soweto East and Silanga Villages in Kibera informal settlement, Nairobi, Kenya, 2006-10. Reclaimed timber and steel, stone, plaster, red soil, cement, gum poles, corrugated metal. Photo: © Kounkuey Design Initiative

Spaza-de-Move-on: Spaza-de-Move-on, prototype. Architect/artist: Doung Anwar Jahangeer (South Africa), DALA, with street vendor Moses Gnwaba (South Africa). Fabricator: Rebcon Engineering. Funders: Imagine Durban planning project by Canadian International Development Agency and eThekwini Municipality. Durban, South Africa, 2001-present. Galvanised steel, mild steel. Photo: © DALA Studios

iTRUMP (Inner Thekwini Regeneration & Urban Management Program): Project managers: Sue Wilkinson and Hoosen Moolla, eThekwini Municipality, and Richard Dobson (architect); design and implementation: Gavin Adams, Jonathan Edkins, Ken Froise, Nic Combrink, and Nina Saunders, eThekwini Municipality architects; commissioned architects: Architects Collaborative cc, Emmett & Emmett, Kooblal & Steyn, Langa Makhanya & Associates, Laren Beni, Lee Saunders, Lees & Short, MA Gafoor Architects, Matic van Zyl, Mike Legg Architects cc, Richard Dobson Architect, OMM Design Workshop. Client: eThekwini Municipality. Warwick Junction, Durban, South Africa, 1995-present. Locally sourced masonry units, concrete, steel, timber, corrugated sheeting. Photo: Early Morning Market, © Dennis Gilbert, from the book

School on Wheels: Designer/implementer: Door Step School. Funders: Cummins India Pvt. Ltd. and Springer Science+Business Media Deutschland GmbH. Pune, India, 2000-present. Photo: © Vijay Gondi

Shasthya Shebika (Health Volunteer) Kit: BRAC. Bangladesh, 1977-present. Medicine, sanitary napkins, delivery kit, soap, salt, registrar to maintain records, pictorial dosage instructions. Photo: © BRAC

Digital Drum: Concept: Khalid Arbab (Sudan), UNICEF; prototype 1: Jean-Marc Lefébure (Belgium), UNICEF, and Grant Cambridge (South Africa), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Meraka; prototype 2: Jean-Marc Lefébure, UNICEF; prototype 3: Seth Herr (USA) and Jean-Marc Lefébure, UNICEF. Fabrication: Jean-Marc Lefébure, Grant Cambridge, Emmanuel Ezabo, Seth Herr, Islam Khairul, Cissy Majoli, Malik Abdul, Abdul Ahmed, Francis Ssemukte, Hamid Bbossa, Jacob Odere, Amos Okello, Fred Kiyemba, Charles Mubiru, Fred Ssenyimba, Henry Samula. Partners: UNICEF, Motor Care Clinic Ltd. Kampala, Uganda, 2010-present. Steel oil drum, steel bar stock, steel sheet, threaded bars, Plexiglas, sealant, nuts/bolts, bicycle inner-tube (seal), car inner-tube (laptop fastening), weatherproof keyboard, laptops, solar panel (3x55W), charge controller, battery. Photo: © UNICEF Uganda/2010/Jean-Marc Lefébure

Garden-in-a-Sack: Solidarités International. Funders: European Union and Agence Française de Développement. Kibera, Mathare, Kiambiu, and Mukuru Lunga-Lunga informal settlements, Nairobi, Kenya, 2008-present. Photo: © Solidarités International

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