Worldchanging Institute

10/21/2024

Today’s the day!

Come support an international amputee football game between Arsenal, Brighton and Hove Albion, Scotland National team and players from

This is part of - a multi-year initiative to design and build amputee football fields and rehab centers in Ukraine and other conflict zones.

5.30pm kickoff!

08/07/2024

Request: Humanitarian Design Reading List Suggestions!

This month I begin teaching a graduate school course on humanitarian architecture and design diplomacy*. I am compiling a suggested reading list - and would love suggestions to add..

So far I have:

Design for Fragility: 13 Stories of Humanitarian Architects (2022)
Humanitarian Architecture: 15 stories of architects working after disaster (2014)
Esther Charlesworth

Cities on a finite planet (2016)
Sheridan Bartlett and David Satterthwaite

Design with the other 90% cities (2011)
Cynthia E. Smith

Shelter after Disaster (2015)
ICRC Societies

Design Like You Give A Damn 1 (2006) and 2 (2012)
Architecture for Humanity

Ground Rules in Humanitarian Design (2015)
Alice Min Soo Chun, Irene E. Brisson

Recovery from Disaster (2015)
Ian Davis and David Alexander

Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp (2021)
Edited by Azra Aksamija, Raafat Majzoub and Melina Philippou

Introducing Just Sustainabilities: Policy, Planning and Practice (2013)
Julian Agyeman

Abiding Architecture (2015)
Marie Aquilino

The Spacemaker’s Guide to Big Change (2014)
Nabeel Hamdi

Socializing Architecture: Top Down/Bottom Up
Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman

The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World (2013)

Leadership By Design: Creating an Architecture of Trust (2005)
Richard Swett

Material Change by Eve Blossom

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (2006)
Alex Steffen and others

With a little required reading - Anything on the Rural Studio, Charles Alexander, Jane Jacobs and Victor Papanek | Social Impact / Public Interest designers and writers Bryan Bell, Sergio Palleroni, Liz Ogbu

*note. we have a strong number of design for social justice classes - this is more focused on humanitarian response (although there is a lot of overlap)

04/03/2023

Happy 24th birthday to Architecture for Humanity. An idea to galvanize the strengths of the architecture and design community to respond to those in need around the world. Completing 365 projects in 53 countries over the course of 15 years.

03/31/2023

Our founder will be speaking at the outofarchitecture x disrupt conference this weekend on the vision for the Worldchanging Institute and potential humanitarian research programs in 2024. Www.Disruptsymposium.com/Ooa

02/20/2023

In light of the recent earthquake in Turkey and Syria, we've updated our website to add resources and support for organizations looking to get involved in the rebuilding process

On February 6th a series of devastating earthquakes took the lives of more than 45,000 people and injured over 120,000 in Turkey and Syria. Beyond the tragic loss of life, many towns and cities have been destroyed. This has left more than 345,000 families without a place to call home and the social....

12/16/2022

Earlier this year Worldchanging Institute was invited to speak in Lisbon at the Affordable Housing Summit. We outlined the long term planning needed in the reconstruction of Ukraine after the conflict is resolved. Since then we’ve focused our work in two areas; sustainable post-conflict solutions and affordable housing.

Next month we will give an update in Poland, speaking with Ukrainian and Polish building professionals.

Afterwards we head to DLD Tel Aviv Innovation Festival to speak on Armory of Harmony and reimagining weapons as part of a conflict resolution strategy.