Land+Living: Building More Wanting Less

Building More Wanting Less
Category: Competitions
Posted by: Deborah on 11/8/2005 6:48:00 AM | Digg | Stumble It! | del.icio.us
One Small Project, one big impact

If leftover people, leftover spaces and leftover materials are part of your life, then One Small Project would like to hear from you. The architects, students, designers and artists contributing to One Small Project are working towards helping and profiling the conditions of people known typically as squatters, self-builders, slum dwellers, informal settlers or displaced persons, and are highlighting the unique projects that help some of the 1 billion people who find refuge and community among the spaces that people forgot about, and the materials they threw out.

In an upcoming book called Building More Wanting Less, Wes Janz PhD, RA Associate Professor of Architecture, Ball State University will feature the stories and projects that aim to draw attention to an unfortunate reality. A call for submissions is currently out.

Link: One Small Project

Send your project if you’re an architect finding relevance in building for a person or persons in your city’s poorest neighborhoods. Send your project if you’re a filmmaker talking to people making their way in a society where fellow citizens left them behind. Send your project if you’re a writer finding purpose in the pain and potential of the world. Send us your project if you’re a student and you’ve done a competition entry, website, gallery exhibit, or studio project that helps you understand you do have options and you can help people. Send your project if you’re a photographer seeing life in the world’s waste.

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Japanese Homeless
Posted by Katy on 11/8/2005 8:39:00 AM

This made me think of an interesting article I read when I was in Japan last month - an article about the architecture of the tent homes many Japanese homeless live in. The article was in an English language paper. This is the link: http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200510150140.html

I'm confused...
Posted by Megan on 3/1/2006 8:34:00 AM

Is this a call for submissions of ideas for how to rebuild or help these communities OR is it just a call for documentation of where these exist. Is there a contact for this--the website doesn't list anything?

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