Fostered: Space for the Homeless Child

FOSTERED: SPACE FOR THE HOMELESS CHILD - OPENING JULY 2009
Encouraging social change through design-based dialog.

Fostered includes two competitions: a standard open to all applicants and a student competition open to those enrolled at a university at the time of the submittal deadline. Entries from each competition will be evaluated and awarded separately.

Challenge:

Develop an architectural design to foster healthy emotional development for homeless child/ren.
What challenges must they face in order to become well-adjusted adults?

Considerations:

Who are the world’s homeless children?...refugees, orphans, foster care, children in poverty, those in poor family structure, the disowned, runaways…

What challenges must they face in order to become well-adjusted adults?

http://www.sociodesignfoundation.org/2010comp.html