2005- Ecobarrios: A Bottom up Approach to Building a Sustainable CityAnamaria Aristizabal
This is a paper written for the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies class "Cities and Sustainability in the Developing World" by Professor Ellen Brennan-Galvin. These are the lessons learned by the program Ecobarrios, implemented in Bogota from 2000-2004.
As coberturas mediterrânicas, verdes e productivas promovem o bem estar e a qualidade de vida das populações e contribuem decisivamente para o aumento da resiliência das cidades. Por esta razão é essencial não apenas o conhecimento das soluções existentes que melhor se adaptam ao nosso clima, como ainda o desenvolvimento das competências essenciais para a boa implementação daquelas soluções.
O enfoque deste Workshop está na demonstração das oportunidades de intervenção na “quinta fachada” do edificado, conducentes à melhoria do desempenho energético dos edifícios, à redução do “efeito ilha de calor”, à boa gestão das águas pluviais, à melhoria da qualidade do ar, ao aumento da biodiversidade e à segurança alimentar das populações urbanas.
O Workshop é dirigido a todos os decisores que influenciam a qualidade de construção do meio edificado.
A inscrição para o Workshop é gratuita sendo pre-inscrição individual e obrigatoria.
Mais informações: Tel: 918 613 023 - e-mail: mail@construcaosustentavel.pt
Buildings produce half of all greenhouse gases and account for one-sixth of the world's
freshwater withdrawals, one-quarter of its wood harvest and two fifths of its material and
energy flows. One in three buildings in this country, according to the USEPA, has less
than healthy indoor air quality. By several estimates, we will double the size of the built
environment over the next twenty to forty years. For these reasons there is a critical and
immediate need to shift thinking on how the built environment is designed. To reduce
environmental impact, protect public health and improve environmental equity and
justice, we must change principles for building practice. Designers in general and
architects in particular should play a high profile leadership role in this transformation.
2005- Ecobarrios: A Bottom up Approach to Building a Sustainable CityAnamaria Aristizabal
This is a paper written for the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies class "Cities and Sustainability in the Developing World" by Professor Ellen Brennan-Galvin. These are the lessons learned by the program Ecobarrios, implemented in Bogota from 2000-2004.
As coberturas mediterrânicas, verdes e productivas promovem o bem estar e a qualidade de vida das populações e contribuem decisivamente para o aumento da resiliência das cidades. Por esta razão é essencial não apenas o conhecimento das soluções existentes que melhor se adaptam ao nosso clima, como ainda o desenvolvimento das competências essenciais para a boa implementação daquelas soluções.
O enfoque deste Workshop está na demonstração das oportunidades de intervenção na “quinta fachada” do edificado, conducentes à melhoria do desempenho energético dos edifícios, à redução do “efeito ilha de calor”, à boa gestão das águas pluviais, à melhoria da qualidade do ar, ao aumento da biodiversidade e à segurança alimentar das populações urbanas.
O Workshop é dirigido a todos os decisores que influenciam a qualidade de construção do meio edificado.
A inscrição para o Workshop é gratuita sendo pre-inscrição individual e obrigatoria.
Mais informações: Tel: 918 613 023 - e-mail: mail@construcaosustentavel.pt
Buildings produce half of all greenhouse gases and account for one-sixth of the world's
freshwater withdrawals, one-quarter of its wood harvest and two fifths of its material and
energy flows. One in three buildings in this country, according to the USEPA, has less
than healthy indoor air quality. By several estimates, we will double the size of the built
environment over the next twenty to forty years. For these reasons there is a critical and
immediate need to shift thinking on how the built environment is designed. To reduce
environmental impact, protect public health and improve environmental equity and
justice, we must change principles for building practice. Designers in general and
architects in particular should play a high profile leadership role in this transformation.
9/8 THUR 16:00 | Educating the Sustainability Planner 1APA Florida
Christopher Silver
This session draws upon the teaching, research and consulting experiences in sustainability drawn the perspectives of an architect, planning lawyer and an international planner. Through a series of case studies, it explores how the global community
is undertaking legal, regulatory and other measures to realize sustainable urbanism, promote sustainability in various parts
of the world, and how these efforts can influence the work of Florida planners. This comparative perspective not only provides a source for innovation in practice, but can also serve as
a measure of success locally in the face of the global challenges faced by the sustainable urbanism movement.
Here is Vala's presentation that she gave to the Converge Project's 1st Food Sector Modelling Workshop in Bristol UK on November 2nd 2011. More on this project can be found at www.convergeproject.org
Lisa Astolfi, Anna Paola Canevari, Luca Marescotti: Modulo15 annexes eec-Mod...Luca Marescotti
Con allegati:
Berrini, Maria, Lorenzo Bono. 2010. «Measuring urban sustainability, Analysis of the European Green Capital Award 2010 & 2011 application round». EEA, European Green Capital.
European Green Capital, a c. di. 2015. «European Green Capital Award 2018. Guidance Note». http://ec.europa.eu/environment/europeangreencapital/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/egca_2018_guidance.pdf.
Global Collaboration – United Beyond our Diversity Through the Global Teenage...Brandon Zoras
This presentation will highlight the use of digital learning circles and global collaboration on major world issues. Using a Wiki as a space to collaborate, students from around the world work in learning circles to, pose questions, investigate and publish answers at a global scale. The Global Teenager Project allows for highly engaging lessons that will link to the curriculum as well as the students own community. This session will provide examples of thematic learning circles grade 6- 12 and particularly highlight the journey a class of Senior students have taken. Participants will learn how to connect and start the program in their own class or school. The wiki will be shared, the research process and clips from web conferences made between a Toronto based school and a global partner from Kenya.
anaerobic digestion for cost reduction and sustainable food manufacturing
Food manufacturers are turning to biogas installations to reduce waste, energy and operating costs, CO2 emissions, and to produce green energy that can be sold. Biogas from food waste and sustainable manufacturing in the Food industry was the focus of a lecture at Warwick University by PM Group’s Barry McDermott and Campbell Stevens.
9/8 THUR 16:00 | Educating the Sustainability Planner 1APA Florida
Christopher Silver
This session draws upon the teaching, research and consulting experiences in sustainability drawn the perspectives of an architect, planning lawyer and an international planner. Through a series of case studies, it explores how the global community
is undertaking legal, regulatory and other measures to realize sustainable urbanism, promote sustainability in various parts
of the world, and how these efforts can influence the work of Florida planners. This comparative perspective not only provides a source for innovation in practice, but can also serve as
a measure of success locally in the face of the global challenges faced by the sustainable urbanism movement.
Here is Vala's presentation that she gave to the Converge Project's 1st Food Sector Modelling Workshop in Bristol UK on November 2nd 2011. More on this project can be found at www.convergeproject.org
Lisa Astolfi, Anna Paola Canevari, Luca Marescotti: Modulo15 annexes eec-Mod...Luca Marescotti
Con allegati:
Berrini, Maria, Lorenzo Bono. 2010. «Measuring urban sustainability, Analysis of the European Green Capital Award 2010 & 2011 application round». EEA, European Green Capital.
European Green Capital, a c. di. 2015. «European Green Capital Award 2018. Guidance Note». http://ec.europa.eu/environment/europeangreencapital/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/egca_2018_guidance.pdf.
Global Collaboration – United Beyond our Diversity Through the Global Teenage...Brandon Zoras
This presentation will highlight the use of digital learning circles and global collaboration on major world issues. Using a Wiki as a space to collaborate, students from around the world work in learning circles to, pose questions, investigate and publish answers at a global scale. The Global Teenager Project allows for highly engaging lessons that will link to the curriculum as well as the students own community. This session will provide examples of thematic learning circles grade 6- 12 and particularly highlight the journey a class of Senior students have taken. Participants will learn how to connect and start the program in their own class or school. The wiki will be shared, the research process and clips from web conferences made between a Toronto based school and a global partner from Kenya.
anaerobic digestion for cost reduction and sustainable food manufacturing
Food manufacturers are turning to biogas installations to reduce waste, energy and operating costs, CO2 emissions, and to produce green energy that can be sold. Biogas from food waste and sustainable manufacturing in the Food industry was the focus of a lecture at Warwick University by PM Group’s Barry McDermott and Campbell Stevens.
Promoting Affordability Through Sustainable Built EnvironmentJIT KUMAR GUPTA
Paper tries to define that sustainability makes a commercial sense and looking at the life cycle cost sustainable development makes all building affordable in the real sense of the term
Origin of Spaces - Research Source Book (screen) innovative practices for sus...Christiaan Weiler
Antonio Machado - Campos de Castilla - 1912
"... Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. ...”
1. Preface
It is dawning on many of us that the current pace and direction of society is difficult to keep up for very long. When in the post-world-war period the pursuit of (individual) achievement seemed the key force of collective development, now the nature of the achievement is very much at the heart of our concerns. Sharing and respecting the environment, be it social, capital or natural, must now regain a central position in community management. Simultaneously the means available for this common task are more and more distributed. More than ever must one ask what one can do for the community, rather than what the community can do for us.
If this project can establish the relevance of the multidisciplinary approach to global sustainability, it will be succesful. All participants, and all of their partners, will be dealing with our subject hands on. This means, once again, to break out of conventional silos so that professionals with different expertise can share insights and work side by side for the common goal.
Once the individual participants of the project recognise the shared motivation, the matter can be improved, embodied and disseminated - through the work in progress and the distribution of the results. Everyone will have the occasion to relay the subject in new links with organisations and city councils on local level, bringing together the actors within a common framework. The nature of 'change management' will need the implication of key-stake-holders on a regional level. Developping and distributing tested contents will convince captains of governance and industry to support the agents of the new models. The rich and diverse context of european culture will be a favourable background for innovating community-management with the resilience of a hybrid multi-faceted approach. When we come out with a 'best-practice'-based toolbox, developed on field work, we will be ready to share the expertise, and promote this complementary and crucial frame of innovation.
2. Research Outcomes
This research report is part of the Erasmus + project. It is the result of the initial phase, and concentrates on the task of assessing the existing practices of the five partners. The results of the research is be the basis of the second and final phase - the Toolbox development. The Toolbox is destined to enable other individuals or groups to learn the basics of setting up multidisciplinary social entrepreneur clusters.
The Indonesia International Institute for Urban Resilience and Infrastructure (i3URI) is a unique research based educational and training institution, founded to address the ever complex and intertwined urban and sustainable infrastructure issues. It is supported by a vast national and international network of leading research institutes and sectorial ministries, top universities and reputable world class private sectors, and green financial and investment enterprises.
Auroville Green Practices Sustainable Habitats is a workshop aimed at deepening the understanding of a sustainably integrated approach to planning, designing and building of human habitats. A series of interactive workshop sessions, presentations and site visits based on the broad themes of planning and design, green building material, energy management, integrated water management, waste management and landscaping will be offered. It is a comprehensive learning program for professionals and young architects with a focus on integrated sustainable solutions for human habitats. Participants will get a rich
and diverse exposure to various design approaches from all over the world.
Come join our workshops in the UK learning about biomimicry, the circular economy, systems-thinking and behaviour change.
When:
London - 31st May
Leeds - 4th June
Edinburgh - 6th June
To find out more and book, follow the link - https://www.bio-uk.org/urbanfutures.
Best architects in kerala suvarnarekha design consultants.pptxbasilbaby1998carmon
Looking for the best architects in Kerala to bring your dream space to life? Suvarnarekha Design Consultants is your answer. With a team of highly skilled professionals, we specialize in creating innovative and sustainable designs that exceed our clients' expectations. Let us transform your vision into reality.
Origin of Spaces - Research Source Book (print) - innovative practices for s...Christiaan Weiler
Antonio Machado - Campos de Castilla - 1912
"... Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. ...”
1. Preface
It is dawning on many of us that the current pace and direction of society is difficult to keep up for very long. When in the post-world-war period the pursuit of (individual) achievement seemed the key force of collective development, now the nature of the achievement is very much at the heart of our concerns. Sharing and respecting the environment, be it social, capital or natural, must now regain a central position in community management. Simultaneously the means available for this common task are more and more distributed. More than ever must one ask what one can do for the community, rather than what the community can do for us.
If this project can establish the relevance of the multidisciplinary approach to global sustainability, it will be succesful. All participants, and all of their partners, will be dealing with our subject hands on. This means, once again, to break out of conventional silos so that professionals with different expertise can share insights and work side by side for the common goal.
Once the individual participants of the project recognise the shared motivation, the matter can be improved, embodied and disseminated - through the work in progress and the distribution of the results. Everyone will have the occasion to relay the subject in new links with organisations and city councils on local level, bringing together the actors within a common framework. The nature of 'change management' will need the implication of key-stake-holders on a regional level. Developping and distributing tested contents will convince captains of governance and industry to support the agents of the new models. The rich and diverse context of european culture will be a favourable background for innovating community-management with the resilience of a hybrid multi-faceted approach. When we come out with a 'best-practice'-based toolbox, developed on field work, we will be ready to share the expertise, and promote this complementary and crucial frame of innovation.
2. Research Outcomes
This research report is part of the Erasmus + project. It is the result of the initial phase, and concentrates on the task of assessing the existing practices of the five partners. The results of the research is be the basis of the second and final phase - the Toolbox development. The Toolbox is destined to enable other individuals or groups to learn the basics of setting up multidisciplinary social entrepreneur clusters.
Origin of Spaces - Research Brochure - innovative practices for sustainable m...Christiaan Weiler
Organisations from five European countries have joined forces on a three year journey to share existing know-how and explore new practices related to coworking ecosystems. However, as with every journey, the project began with a period of reflection and preparation, an opportunity to learn new work languages, structures and methods: “Where have we come from?”, “Where are we going?”, “What should be taken forward?”. In addition there were specific questions and discussions on the meanings behind our coworking ecosystems themes, namely multidisciplinary coworking, local partnerships, ecological transition, participatory governance and social entrepreneurship. This report provides the history of our preparation for constructing a coworking toolbox. It focuses on the wealth of local background material unearthed by the partners and, by identifying the most relevant points, helps explain how the map to guide our journey began to take shape.
The information you are about to discover will help explain why we believe that coworking and the creation of multidisciplinary creative clusters (also known as ecosystems or the Third Place) provide an innovative approach for European entrepreneurs and professionals to work collaboratively through improved communication and networking, in order to create new economic opportunities and benefit society.
My extensive and diverse architectural experience over the past 10 years includes leading multifunctional teams on both rural and urban context. My ambition is to set up an interdisciplinary, social-enterprise-based architectural practice focusing on global issues. The project will use design as a tool for addressing problems and finding solutions, following participatory design-build approach by
experimenting with various local and recycled material incorporating modern technology appropriate to climate, culture, and place. I believe the educational agenda currently I am pursuing, will contribute to the conception, planning, and execution of the ambitious and important program I envision.
The work I have done ranges from a 90-sq.-foot, $450-prototype module for the urban migrant community, to a 78,000-sq-foot industrial building with a $3.5-million budget. These works have
provided me with in-depth knowledge of designing, detailing, project development, team management, building codes, and so on. As you will note in my credits, I have been the recipient of multiple awards,
grants and have appeared as a speaker and facilitator at various events locally and internationally.
Website: https://imrulkayes.one
Email: design@imrulkayes.one
Mob: +8801979797970
1. PROJECT OVERVIEW
Design Against the Elements is a global architectural design
competition meant to find a solution to the problems and threats
presented by disasters caused by climate change.
Spurred by the devastation wreaked in the Philippines by tropical storm Ondoy (Ketsana)
and driven by a strong multidisciplinary group of organizations from the private,
institutional, and government sectors, the project aims to draw together the brightest and
most innovative minds in the fields of sustainable design and urban planning to develop an
integrated, environmentally sound, and disaster-resistant housing community in a tropical
urban setting. The MyShelter Foundation has pulled together a powerhouse group of
partners: the city of Taguig, Climate Change Commission (CCC), the United Architects of
the Philippines (UAP), the RP - United Nations White Helmets, among others.
The challenge is to design a complete housing community that is both sustainable to build
and that can withstand the rigors of the Philippines’ typhoons and consequent flooding,
made worse by the increasingly alarming effects of climate change. The permanent dwelling
provided by the physical structure and the social support system offered by the planned
community will not only provide shelter from the elements, ensuring the safety of its
residents, it will also give them a sense of security and hope that life can proceed
unhindered by the onslaught of natural disasters.
The project also aims to present a definitive green building solution in a truly local context.
Too often, home-owners, architects, and policy-makers think of sustainable building as a
luxury that only privileged landowners and advanced countries can afford to practice.
Design Against the Elements considers the concept of green architecture as essential to
survival—planning for homes and communities that can survive for weeks in the severely
restricted conditions of a post-disaster situation. The goal is to mitigate the effects of the
destruction caused by these disasters, which currently contribute to the perpetuation of
poverty as they result in loss of life and property and a costly halt in indigent communities’
way of life.
The competition will be divided into two categories: the Open Category (Category 1), which
shall be open to registered and licensed architects, and the Student Category (Category 2),
which shall be for senior students and graduates of an architecture course. A total prize
fund of US $21,000 will be awarded for up to four winning entries in the first category and
US $7,500 for the second category. Moreover, the top winning design will be built as a
prototype masterplanned disaster-resistant and livable eco-village in Taguig City, Metro
Manila. The village will be the first green and disaster-resistant community in the country
and will provide an archetype model that can be studied and replicated in similar areas. The
finished project will house a marginalized climate-refugee community and is meant to give
them a sense of security and belonging as well as pride and ownership and awareness of
sustainable practices that can be practiced at all levels of their everyday lives.
All the entries to the competition will also be compiled into an encyclopedia of architectural
and planning solutions to address climate change, adding to the canon that can be tapped
by future designers and researchers worldwide. Thus the competition will synthesize many
solutions to problems resulting from climate change, and will address the need for socialized
housing in a creative, innovative, and fully sustainable manner that can be replicated by
other concerned citizens in the near future.
2. PROJECT OBJECTIVES
Design Against the Elements was conceptualized with the intent to mitigate the effects of
the natural disasters brought about and worsened by climate change, particularly on the
marginalized groups of society who are most at risk since they lack adequately planned and
well-built shelter. The project also aims to tap the most sustainable and ecologically sound
technologies available in order to end the cycle of further damage to the environment. Thus,
the objectives of the project may be stated as follows:
o To foster local and global awareness on climate adaptability and its relevance to poverty
alleviation. The main hypothesis of this project is that having safer structures “ahead of
time” will not only lead to less injury, number of climate refugees, and loss of life and
property, but will empower communities to uplift their quality of life.
o To build the first green, livable, affordable, and disaster-resistant village in the
Philippines that will serve as the blueprint for how families in vulnerable areas can
successfully cope with the impacts of climate variability.
o To compile an encyclopedia of climate-resilient and affordable design solutions that can
be used and repeatedly referred to in the near future, and that can help facilitate the
development of facilities that address these humanitarian challenges.
COMPETITION TIMELINE
Deadline for registration
September 24, 2010
Deadline for submission of questions
October 5, 2010
Deadline to dispatch answers to questions
October 15, 2010
Deadline for submission of entries
November 19, 2010
Judging
December 1-3, 2010
Announcement of Winners
December 8, 2010
Awarding
January 14, 2011 (tentative)
3. PROPONENTS
City of Taguig
The city of Taguig is an important residential, commercial, and
industrial center in Metro Manila. Headed by Mayor Sigfrido
Tiñga, the city aims to be a premier city of the Philippines,
recognized for its quality environment, people-oriented public
services, and the economic opportunities it offers to its
residents. It is also a strong advocate of building homes for all,
responding to the housing needs of the city’s poor and homeless
through partnerships with various housing-oriented
organizations. It is providing the land and funding for the
construction of the prototype eco-village which will be designed
based on the winning entry for Design Against the Elements.
Climate Change Commission
The Climate Change Commission was created to coordinate,
monitor, and evaluate the government’s programs and actions to
mitigate and adapt to the effects of Climate Change. Its mandate
is provided by the Philippine Climate Change Act of 2009, which
was signed into law on October 23, 2009 and seeks to
mainstream climate change into the formulation of government
policy by setting up a National Framework Strategy and Program
on Climate Change. The law is meant to enable the country to
better respond to disasters spawned by climate change.
MyShelter Foundation
MyShelter Foundation is a non-stock non-profit organization
that aims to create a system of sustainability and replicability
through its capability-building and employment generating
projects. MyShelter empowers its beneficiaries and uses their
energies as the greatest force for their upliftment. Among its
previous projects are the 25 Earthen Schools in Surigao, Coral
Walls development, and the innovative peanut shellters for
peanut farmers and processors. MyShelter Foundation is the
pioneering force behind the Design Against the Elements
project.
4. United Architects of the Philippines
The United Architects of the Philippines is recognized as the
Integrated and Accredited Professional Organization of Architectect
(IAPOA) in the Philippines. It is the only organization with the right
to represent Filipino architects in the Philippines and
internationally. As the country's prime professional organization of
architects, the UAP is strongly committed to social responsibility
and has taken an active role in various socio-civic programs and
projects. The UAP aims to be responsive to the needs of its
professionals, the profession, and the professional product while
preserving the UAP-IAPOA's larger, enduring role as a vanguard of
architecture profession where knowledge and innovation are created, transmitted, and
preserved; and to be actively seeking balance in all of these roles, even in the face of the
uncertainties and the rapidly changing forces that surround the Filipino architects. The UAP
is taking the lead role as the project manager and official competition organizer for Design
Against the Elements. UAP is a member institute of ARCASIA (Architects Regional Council
Asia), a regional organization of 16 institutes of architects in Asia, and is the Philippine
national section of UIA (Union Internationale des Architectes), an international organization
of 110 institutes of architects worldwide. The UAP has been awarded the Most Outstanding
Accredited Professional Organization (APO) by the PRC for four consecutive years already.
Philippine White Helmets
The Philippine White Helmets is a joint government, civil society
and private sector humanitarian and peacebuilding group
supervised by the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs -
Office of UN and Other International Affairs / Philippine Mission
to the UN in Geneva. The White Helmets are mandated by the
United Nations though UN General Assembly Resolution 49/139-
B (1994). Domestically, the PWH assists in providing and
coordinating local and international humanitarian assistance to
calamities throughout the country, and is currently engaged in
relief for the Ondoy and Pepeng Crises in Luzon.
5. SPONSORS
Major
Six Degrees Strategic Design
XOB Productions
Minor
DigiScript Philippines Inc.
Sony Philippines
Bigtop Meda Productions, Inc.
Brand Aide Inc.
Media Partner
National Geographic Channel
6. PRESS RELEASE
It takes only seconds to destroy what takes years to build. Thousands of Filipinos learned
this last year, when Typhoon Ondoy (Ketsana) took lives and homes. Help reduce the
painful cycle of environmental destruction and post-disaster reconstruction through design.
The best donation to a country at risk to the effects of climate change is not just financial
aid, but ideas. This year’s challenge is to prepare communities before the next disaster.
Design Against the Elements is a global competition to design sustainable and disaster-
resilient communities for tropical urban environments.
The competition is divided into two categories. The Open Category (Category 1) is open to
registered and licensed architects worldwide. The first prize winner for Category 1 will
receive a $10,000 reward, and have his or her design built. The Student Category (Category
2) is for current students of an architecture course worldwide. The winner for Category 2
will receive $3,000.
The winning design will be built for an urban poor community in Taguig City, Philippines.
Taguig, is known to be a leader in innovative practices in terms of governance and social
development. In 2009, the city government sponsored a housing project for the poor based
on a condominium paradigm; the city is also the site of many housing projects and
relocation settlements, and is thus no stranger to the needs of its less privileged
communities. Taguig has also laid out plans for its strategic development, covering various
concerns such as housing, road networks and infrastructure, the provision of utilities, and
distribution of land use. In this plan, Taguig acknowledges its geography and location, and
clearly states the need for carrying out various flood control and adaptation measures to
deal with the problem. This makes the city an ideal test and prototype location for a
disaster-resistant eco-village, given the physical setting and the openness of the local
government to support new methods of disaster control.
The finished project will serve as a prototype for vulnerable communities around the world.
Too often, home-owners, architects, and policy-makers think of sustainable building as a
luxury that only privileged landowners and advanced countries can afford. Design Against
the Elements considers green architecture as essential to survival; it has the ability to
reduce the frequency and impact of environmental disasters and lessen the cycle of poverty.
As in all major efforts, it takes the time, effort, financial resources, and influence of many
individuals, organizations, corporations, and government offices to make a project a
success. The Design Against the Elements initiative is driven by the following groups, and
more project partners are joining the group daily. Partners for this project include: City of
Taguig, Climate Change Commission, My Shelter Foundation, Architects of the Philippines,
RP-United Nations White Helmets, XOB Productions, Six Degrees, DigiScript Philippines,
Bigtop Media Productions, Sony Philippines, Brand Aide, National Geographic Channel.