Ground Rules in Humanitarian Design

Alice Min Soo Chun is assistant professor of design and material culture at Parsons The New School for Design, with a focus on material technology and renewable energy. She is CEO and president of FAARM, a non-profit organisation, dedicated to humanitarian design efforts worldwide and co-founder of Solight Design, a design startup in New York City. She has taught architecture at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Arizona, and has been building award-winning community outreach projects. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Architectural Record, Dwell and the Journal of Architectural Education, the Herald Tribune and the New York Observer.Irene Brisson is a designer and educator interested in the development and implementation of equitable design processes. As vice-president of FAARM she has led design and research projects in southern Haiti since 2010. An alumna of Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she has taught at Parsons the New School for Design and Bowling Green State University and is a doctoral student in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan.

• 8 IntroductionGround Rules for Humanitarian Design18 Part 1 – Histories of Humanitarian Design and Aid20 Humanitarian DesignNotes for a DefinitionChristian Hubert and Ioanna Theocharopoulou36 Fifty Years of the Community-Led Incremental DevelopmentParadigm for Urban Housing and Place-MakingJohn FC Turner and Patrick Wakely56 Part 2 – Land58 Real Estate and Property Rights in Humanitarian DesignJesse M Keenan70 Remediating EcocideAlice Min Soo Chun86 Part 3 – Crisis in Health and Culture88 Crisis ArchitectureConflict, Cultures of Displacement and Crisis-formsJ Yolande Daniels98 Emergency Medical StructuresSabrina Plum110 Part 4 – Water and Sanitation112 Fluid MattersOn Water and DesignElizabeth Parker124 Water, Sanitation and Hygiene InterventionsHousehold Water Treatment and Safe Storage to Reduce the Burden of Diarrhoeal Disease in Developing CountriesDaniele Lantagne134 Part 5 – Ecology and Humanitarian Design136 Architectures of Eco-LiteracyEric Höweler and J Meejin Yoon142 Circling Research with DesignNLÉ’s African Water Cities Project and Prototype Floating School for Makoko Kunlé Adeyemi148 Part 6 – Local Materials and Local Skills150 Intelligent Materials and TechnologyAlice Min Soo Chun168 One CityMerritt Bulcholz176 Part 7 – Shelter and Housing178 Missing ScalesDeborah Gans192 reCOVEREmergency Shelter InterventionsAnselmo G Canfora210 Part 8 – Education and Practice212 Humanitarian Architecture Is Hip. Now What?Eric Cesal218 Reading Codes Is a Whole New WorldGrainne Hassett238 Part 9 – Architecture, Planning and Politics240 Delmas 32A Post-Disaster Planning Experience in HaitiSabine Malebranche250 Building On, Over, WithPostcolonialism and Humanitarian DesignIrene E Brisson258 Select Bibliography259 Index