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Architects Without Borders is a humanitarian organization that uses architecture and planning as tools for enabling development.
What’s on
Follow our work. We bring news about ongoing projects, post invites to debate evenings focusing on the role of the architectural profession in development work, and keep you up to date with new initiatives and opportunities in the organization.
Event in Danish: Kom med til Aften Uden Grænser torsdag d. 9. marts
En aften om hjemløshed og Dark Design
Project committee searching for a new coordinator
Are you passionate about making a difference through architecture and planning?
Event in Danish: Kom med til Aften Uden Grænser torsdag d. 17. november
En aften om personen i arkitekturen og arkitekten i verden.
Forensic Architecture:
Visit Louisiana with Architects Without Borders DK
On Sunday October 16th all members of Architects Without Borders DK can join us for free at Louisiana where the exhibition "Forensic Architecture – Witnesses" is being displayed.
Evening Without Borders on Public Participation October 6
How to collaborate across power and decision-making structures? – An evening about designing with people.
Pillars of Work
Our work is based on three complementary pillars: advising and building for external NGOs; initiating development projects focusing on planning and land rights; facilitating discussions focusing on the role of architecture within development work.
Building
We design and construct buildings of high architectural quality that contribute to local development. We offer a three-step process that allows us to support construction projects within NGOs. This entails clarification of needs, sketch proposals, and/or construction management. Do not hesitate to contact us to know more about our collaboration model.
Planning
Cities in the Global South are currently experiencing profound growth, meanwhile penury increases, leaving large groups of its population in deep deprivation. Our work centers land rights upgrading of poor housing conditions, in which we unpack and continuously acquire knowledge about planning practices, political conditions, housing financing models, social structures, and local decision-making processes.
Debate
A crucial part of our development work is discussions and debates through our social events ‘Evening Without Borders’, media appearances, and participation in fairs and festivals that altogether allow us to draw attention to issues related to development in which architecture and planning can contribute to making a difference. We strive to support the profession as a socially conscious and responsible profession.
RECENT PROJECTS
Just now we’re working on a football club house for exposed youth in Sierra Leone, we’re planning a coffee central in Nicaragua that will benefit local growers, preparing to build a bio-centre in Uganda to improve sanitation in a slum settlement and a school in rural Tanzania.
Pavilion at BLOX
In celebration of Copenhagen as World Capital of Architecture and host of the UIA-congress, we're placing a toilet in front of BLOX and the Danish Architecture Centre. Why give a shit? – we ask, and tell how sanitation in slums can actually save lives.
Cooperative urban development in Korogocho
A collaborative public space project, targeting children and youth in a large slum in Nairobi.
Build-back-green in Ukraine
A pilot project that examines the co2-reducing potential of bio-based building materials in the Ukrainian reconstruction effort.
School building, Tanzania
School project in Magugu, Tanzania, targeted particularly vulnerable children and youth. The project is supported by the School for Life on Møn, Denmark.
