Sustainable+Design

Cameron Sinclair presents a concern due to the series of crisis in the world, and wanted to present a solution to begin to develop a socially responsible architecture considered and planned to serve the society in order to solve problems like the shortage of housing, hunger, disease, especially in countries most affected by these problems. **2. How did he face these problems?** He faced the problem by creating a web site that would work like a forum where people can raise its problems and then, designer would be able to use this information to present their own possible solution for any problem. **3. Explain 4 of the architectural solutions presented by him** Kosovo: they build a kind of “house” called “transitional shelters” that would last 5 to 10 years where the residents were able to live there until they reconstruct their own house. Africa: in Africa they become aware of the problem with the pandemics, so they propose a solution that consists in a mobile health system, and this way brings doctors to the people instead of making people walk kilometers to the nearest clinic. Nigeria: A problem was raised, and this problem was that a great percent of women has HIV, and no because a promiscuous behavior but because the lack of information. So they propose to make an sport center where the people could be educated and at the same time practice any sport. The particularity is that the coaches would be doctors too. Tanzania: a telemedicine center. **4. What is the meaning of open-source architecture to house the world?** The open source architecture to house the world is the creation of a community with the ability to communicate and share ideas. This community would be compose by people affected by the problems and people who has the capability to solve these problems, so in result we have a kind of portal where part of the group can raise a problem or a situation and a team of engineers, architects, designers, planners, manufacturers, and any other, would try to find a sustainable solution for all of these issues. **5. In your opinion, what is the most important message in this video?** The most important message of this video is that if we want we can help to change the world, if we want a better world to live, we have to work for it, and we can do it, so this video proves that it is actually possible to make solutions, and it only took an initiative from a people who called another ones and they all working in groups purpose all of those awesome sustainable solutions, so it is possible to solve all the problems of our world, but we have to effort to do it. media type="file" key="pod2.wma" width="120" height="120"
 * Questions **
 * What kind of problem(s) did Cameron want to solve? **