Sustainable+Design

Cameron Sinclair presents a solution 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.
 * What kind of problem(s) did Cameron want to solve? **

He faced the problem by creating a web site that would work like a forum where people can raise its problems and then designers would be able to use this information to present their own possible solution for any problem. **A**frica: 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. **K**osovo: 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. **N**igeria: They propose to make an sport center where the people could be educated and be inform about to HIV and at the same time they would practice any sport. The particularity is that the coaches would be doctors too. **T**anzania: a telemedicine center.
 * How did he face these problems? **
 * Explain 4 of the architectural solutions presented by him **

It’s 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.
 * What is the meaning of open-source architecture to house the world? **

In my opinion, this video leaves us the message that everything is possible if we propose it. It also leaves us thinking that we can improve our community and the entire world if only we try to change our way of seeing things.
 * In your opinion, what is the most important message in this video? **

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