Rebuild by Design - Project Updates | 2 Years Later

NGO / Public Service

What began as a new kind of design competition in the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, has transformed into an innovative process that places local communities and civic leaders at the heart of a robust, interdisciplinary, creative process to generate implementable solutions for a more resilient region. Its inclusive process has since provoked a paradigm shift in the way that planners and governments approach both disaster response and emergency preparedness. Placing substantive collaboration between designers, researchers, community members, and government officials at the heart of an iterative creative process, the Hurricane Sandy Competition resulted in ten visionary design pr