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Cameron Sinclair talks about his innovation design solutions to housing problems at Cameron Sinclair on Open Source Architecture He is a co-founder of Architecture for Humanity and editor of the book “Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises.”

Here are some of the quotes from his lecture that struck me:

• “All problems are local. All solutions are local.”
• “This isn’t just about non-profit. What it showed me is there is a grass roots movement of socially responsible designers going on.”
• “We have the opportunity to get involved in making change.”
• “We have a staff of 3.”
• “…advocacy, instigation, implementation.”
• “Why don’t aid agencies do this?”
• “… a conduit between the design world and the humanitarian world.”

Cameron helped to bring the world it’s first building where the design plans have a Creative Commons license.

Oh, yeah… and he lives in Bozeman, Montana…