Life Section

My blog has become home to many different lists because I find it is a convenient way to keep track of different things I want to remember and I like that I can constantly update them and other people can benefit from them. This list includes organizations, events, and resources that I have discovered related to community development with architecture and mapping. I have divided it into categories of Affordable and Sustainable Architecture, Focus on Earthen Architecture, Community Mapping and Upgrading, Engineering for Global Development, Events, and Online Resources. If there is a asterisk symbol beside it, it means I have experience with the organization, tool, or event, so that if you would like to know more about my experience, you can get in touch!

Affordable and Sustainable Architecture

• a.gor.a architects – Thailand – Myanmar
• Azuko – Bangladesh
• Anna Heringer Architecture – Germany – global – Bangladesh
• Buildchange – global – disaster response – retrofit – training
• BuildX Studio (previously Orkidstudio)
• collectif Saga – France – South Africa
• C-re-aid – Tanzania
• *Engineering Ministries International – global – Christian ministry – multidisciplinary – construction management – research
• Gyaw Gyaw – Thailand
• Habitat for Humanity – global – disaster response – promotion – training
• Kounkuey Design Initiative – USA – Kenya – Sweden – global – multidisciplinary – community engagement
• LocalWorks – Uganda – East Africa – multidisciplinary
• MASS Design Group – USA – Rwanda – global
• Sawa Architecture – global – training – permaculture

Focus on Earthen Architecture

• CalEarth Institute – USA – earth bag – training
• Earth Enable – Rwanda – earthen floors
• Good Earth Global – global – Nepal – India – earth bag – training – housing
• Masons Ink – India – architects – training – heritage – slum upgrading

Community Mapping and Upgrading

• Common Thread Global  – project assessment tool
• *KoboToolBox – data collection – land rights – community engagement
• Kounkuey Design Initiative – USA – Kenya – Sweden – global – multidisciplinary – community engagement and upgrading
• mHS City Lab – India – community engagement and upgrading
• *OpenDataKit – data collection – land rights – community engagement
• *OpenStreetMap – global – open source vector map
• *QGIS – open source GIS software – land rights
• SDI (Know Your City) – community mapping and upgrading
• Social Tenure Domain Model – plugin for QGIS – land rights
• Spatial Collective – Kenya – data collection – community engagement – advocacy
• UN Habitat – global – promotion – training – community upgrading – leadership development
• Ushahidi – global – crowdsourced mapping and reporting

Engineering for Global Development

• ARUP – structural engineering for international development – research
• *Engineering for Change – network – promotion – training – research
• *Engineering Ministries International – global – Christian ministry – multidisciplinary – construction management – research
• Engineers Without Borders – engineering for international development – network – promotion – training –

Events

• Confronting Informality Symposium
• *IC-NOCMAT (International Conference of Non-conventional Materials and Technologies)
• *Impact Engineered – discussion and networking around social and environmental innovation

Online Resources

• Appropriate Building Materials – collection of building methods and materials published in 1988 and available online
• ARUP Humanitarian Library
• Build Change Resources page
• *E4C Solutions Library – collection of products and services being developed around the world seeking to alleviate poverty
• Global Shelter Cluster – collection of shelter project case studies