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Taking the Long View: Design and the Nonprofit

Most of today’s positive design solutions focus on green design. Although issues such as efficiency and sustainability are critical, one can’t ignore equally pressing issues like humanitarian aid, education and healthcare. Often overlooked, nonprofit groups tend to take on the burden in areas where government agencies fail. This event will feature presentations by landscape architect Lily Jencks from Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres and Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity—two international nonprofit organizations that use design in exceptional, and human, ways.

Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres are auxiliary cancer-care facilities that landscape architect and writer Maggie Jencks established before her death in 1995. First Lady Michelle Obama toured the London branch on a recent trip. Notable architects such as Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Sir Richard Rogers and Rem Koolhaas have donated designs for several of the centers. Landscape architect Lily Jencks will discuss the work of the centers and her work with Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas on their newest additions in Hong Kong and Glasgow.

Architecture for Humanity was founded by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr in 1999. Based in San Francisco, AfH relies on volunteer architects and designers to deliver humanitarian aid at disaster sites around the globe. AfH doesn’t provide disaster response; they provide disaster relief for the long term and community rebuilding for two to ten years into the future. Sinclair has received the TED Prize for Innovation and was named one of the “World’s Most Influential Designers” by BusinessWeek magazine.

Organized by R. Scott Mitchell (Architecture).

For further information on this event:
visionsandvoices@usc.edu

Admission is free.
Reception to follow.

Location: George Finley Bovard Administration Building (ADM) -

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Daria Yudacufski