Worldchanging Institute

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)

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.

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