Week 2

After reading 100 Years of Humanitarian Design, by Kate Stohr it showed a mix approaches to natural disasters and slums. What stood out the most to me is Housing is a necessity… it becomes a luxury when their inhabitants maintain and care for it but in these cases war, natural disaster and poverty could take a toll on things. I found it interesting that an architect/designers role in these times are not to create a better future but their positions are as trainers to help the community rebuild itself temporarily. Another thing I notice was that funds were the biggest problems for community design projects so having the community build it instead of hiring a contractor conflict with the community peoples approaches to design.

Heading towards Professional Practice: can professionalism be taught in school? The article itself shows you the development more towards education but, I find that professionalism cannot be taught but can be building towards using the resources we learn in school as a tool. I believe it’s something you will gain along the way as you further work in the field and become more involved.

Lastly, In Community Engagement, I find that we need to balance out the needs of people socially by providing inhabitable space. This is where we will help solve problems and have architecture engage society on every level.