As part of a seminar on Family and Poverty, UIC’s Institut de Estudis Superiors de la Familia will be hosting a conference on the right of families to housing, which…
For 40 years, Jan Gehl of Gehl Architects has studied how the built environment can create social interaction, as well as the consequences of when it doesn’t. In The Human…
This weekend, 48H Open House Barcelona will launch its 4th edition of the festival, which invites everyone to enjoy Barcelona’s architecture by opening the doors of over 150 architecturally relevant…
The notorious “vertical slum” Torre de David of Caracas, Venezuela made its Hollywood debut in the latest episode of the popular US TV drama Homeland. The scenes were actually filmed…
We love to hear what our alumni are up to since graduating, and this week one of last year’s students, Shareen Elnaschie, let us know about her some of her…
A competition launched by UN-Habitat seeks to make monolithic mass housing more socially, economically, environmentally and culturally sustainable areas. In the face of rapid urbanization during the second half of…
Design Corps and partner Parsons The New School for Design have announced the Fourth Annual Social Economic Environmental Design (SEED) Awards for Excellence in Public Interest Design call for entries….
On September 20, TEDCity2.0 featured over 20 speakers from different fields who came together to envision the cities of our future and share ideas about collaborative action and sustainable solutions….
If your interest is in informal cities, you may want to check out this compendium of stories from 6 cities that aims to spark a conversation on how to build…
If you’re in or anywhere near Vienna on September 26th-27th, don’t miss this international symposium on Social Design Public Action, which will explore social design approaches within the urban environment….