This document provides an overview of the Chapter Network organization including:
- A list of locations where chapters are located globally.
- Descriptions of selected current projects in Detroit, Chicago, London, and New Orleans focusing on community engagement and design work.
- Information on resilience programs in San Francisco and Portland centered around disaster preparedness and building social networks.
- Details of a transitional steering committee focused on collective decision making, developing new structures, and hiring support to take the network to the next level over the next two years.
2. LATAM
US CENTRAL
Bogota
Guadalajara
Monterrey
Mexico City
Santiago
US EASTUS WEST US SOUTH
EUROPE/
AFRICA
ASIA/
Oceania
CANADA
Chicago
Denver
Minneapolis
Santa Fe
Milwaukee
Indianapolis
Sioux Falls
Cincinnati
Lexington
Louisville
Boston
Detroit
New Haven
New York
Providence
Washington DC
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Newark
Los angeles
Portland
Seattle
San Diego
San San Francisco
Phoenix
Las Vegas
Santa Barbara
Hawaii
Atlanta
Dallas
Houston
Montgomery
New Orleans
Austin
Miami
Greenville
Spartanburg
Raleigh
Abuja
Athens
Genova
Lisbon
London
Auckland
Dhaka
Manila
Tokyo
Karachi
Sydney
Melbourne
Canberra
Toronto
Vancouver
Calgary
WHERE WE ARE
4. “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth,
they can be depended upon to meet any national
crisis. The great point it to bring them the real facts.”
- Abraham Lincoln
5. Fostered design leaders
Tested processes and assumptions
Created a safe space to challenge the status quo
Built work and designed with our local communities
FOR 10 YEARS THE NETWORK HAS...
6. Operated on a shoestring budget
Acted autonomously
Grown without aggressive outreach or resources
Developed many methods of operation, project
FOR 10 YEARS THE CHAPTERS HAVE...
delivery, and community organizing techniques
7. United by our shared vision,
fueled by the solidarity for our mission,
this network supports our passionate efforts
8. - DETROIT: Local development & schematic design
- CHICAGO: Community process & non-profit support
- LONDON: Engagement & International Partnerships
- NEW ORLEANS: Built work, filling a gap in service
- SAN FRANCISCO/PORTLAND: Network collaboration
SELECTED CURRENT WORK
15. Starting Small … 2012
Winship Community Clean-ups PARK(ing) Day / Detroit Design Festival
AFH Detroit
16. - Build Handrail / Home Improvement Program
- Renovate Porch / Home Improvement Program
- Draw ADA Ramp / Home Improvement Program
- Detroit-o-Polis / Detroit Design Festival
Growing up … 2013
AFH Detroit
18. - Church Community
- Civic Engagement / City of Detroit
- Professional Network / Detroit Design Festival
- Non-profit Events / Detroit Soup
PROJECT PROCUREMENT
AFH Detroit
20. Brightmoor Artisans Co-op Facility:
- Training Program
- Prep & Pack ( Multi-Purpose )
- Distribution ( Retail / Cafe )
IDENTIFYING THE NEED
AFH Detroit
32. IDENTIFYING THE NEED
“Art on Sedgewick will give
kids and adults identity,
reinforce the community
across racial and socio-
economic lines by making
stuff rather than consuming
stuff.”
AFH Chicago
45. PICKING UP THE BATON
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Existing foundation by others Previous design by French engineering students
AFH New Orleans
48. STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
- Structural design
outsourced to a friend.
- The design used as many
full-size members as
possible to cut down on
volunteer labor.
AFH New Orleans
54. [UN]built + [UN]broken
We see a resilient city. What do you see?
If you need a giant picture, use this
template
AFH Headquarters • SF, CA • 2013
AFH SF
55. To bridge critical gaps that are intensified by disaster situations
through a whole systems design approach
+
To inspire a view of potential disasters as harbingers of transformation
EVENT MISSION
AFH SF
56. VISION + VALUES
- Catalyze cohesive movement
- Empower people to
meaningfully engage
- Develop emergent solutions
57. RUN OF SHOW
6:30 - 7:30pm
Panel
Discussion
7:30 - 8:30pm
Build
Your
ResilientVille
8:30 - 10:30pm
Opening Reception
for
Art + Design Exhibit
AFH SF
61. “ The more profound preparation for disaster must make a
society more like that of disaster utopias in their brief flowering:
more flexible and improvisational, more egalitarian and less
hierarchical, with more room for meaningful roles and
contributions from all members and with a sense of
membership.”
~ Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell
AFH SF
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Community-based Master Planning
Honolulu, Hawaii
Education & Innovation Initiative
Sierra Climate Adaptation & Mitigation
Partnership
OUTCOMES
AFH SF
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DIG Cooperative
Design/Build + GC firm
Decentralized water systems
Locally-owned business
Democratic decision-making
Profit sharing
AFH SF
OUTCOMES
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Living Waters exhibit
SF Flower & Garden Show 2015
Bronze Award (Show) + Environmental Award
(AHA)
Closed loop, on-site water system
Rainwater Catchment to Indoor Plumbing
Greywater to Living Fountain + Garden
Features
AFH SF
OUTCOMES
66. IDENTIFYING THE NEED
- Neighborhood level ownership for
resilience
- Creating healthy, vibrant communities,
today, that are capable of bouncing back
tomorrow
- Generating rich and diverse cross-sector
partnerships in order to build a stronger
civic infrastructure
AFH Portland
67. Forging connections between citizen and city for an integrated network
of strong, disaster-ready communities.
“Made Resilient” MISSION
AFH Portland
68. FUNCTIONAL AREAS OF RESILIENCE
Source: Empowered Communities Program
San Francisco
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69. “It is essential that cities work to enhance their
capacity to meet the needs of their existing
constituency and be able to participate in a
spontaneous neighborhood wide effort to provide
care and support to all residents.”
AFH Portland
70. RUN OF SHOW
5:00-7:00pm
Design Charrette and
Public Art Auction
AFH Portland
9:00-11:00am
Government Agencies
and Policy Makers
12:00-1:00pm
Private Sectors
74. OUTCOMES AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL
“Wow! I live in a food desert!” “How are we going to care for our elderly?”
AFH Portland
75. 1 ”Community Resilience” not “Disaster Prep”
2 The resources/interest are there; it’s a question of connection
3 Create opportunities for storytelling
4 Ask honest questions
5 It takes a village
OVERALL OUTCOMES + LESSONS LEARNED
AFH SF
AFH Portland
76. “AFH means that I can contribute to our global
community my talents and time. AFH helps to
provide the connection to the communities who
need volunteers like me”
77. “I have always thought that volunteering for AFH
advocates for designers. We reach out to communities
and they learn more about the value of design. We
also are a catalyst for projects to get off the ground
and that creates jobs for architects and designers,
usually in a new market”
78. “AfH has given me opportunities to use - and develop
- my skills as a designer in ways that my "job" has not,
while keeping me motivated and inspired by
connecting me with other passionate, talented
individuals”
79. Now : Aggregate lessons learned, invest in what works.
Create feedback loops of learning
Provide professional development resources
Develop metrics of success
Dream up more opportunities you want to see
First 10 years - autonomous unsupported efforts
Next 2 years - collectively identifying needs
GOALS AND FOCUS
80. - True collaboration and consensus decision making
- Working with patience to get it right
- Meeting weekly to define our shared values, mission and process
- Developing a new organizational structure
- Assembling a diverse advisory board
- Hiring a transition coordinator
TRANSITIONAL STEERING COMMITTEE
81. “I am ready, I feel free
To cleave the ether on a novel flight,
To novel spheres of pure activity”
- Geothe
82. This is a new beginning, different from the last.
Let’s leverage this economy of scale - together.
Join the conversation, build what you believe in.