A crash course in changing the world.
So my first hero to shadow is a group which is facilitating farming in Kenya - training farmers, getting them access to better seeds, connecting them with markets, etc.
Then Nick Heyming commented on my IMAGINE1 post asking if I'd heard of Architecture for Humanity. I had heard about them in the past, and have always been really interested and impressed in the work they manage to do. But before the start of the EVOKE project / game, I had never really seriously considered joining them.
AfH does fantastic work around the world, from rebuilding Haiti to building schools in Rio. I've spent the last few hours combing through their website, and their sister website The Open Architecture Network.
There are a variety of ways that I can contribute to their cause. The most obvious, and the one that has always caught my interest (in a wild adventure kind of way), is to become a design fellow and actually go to a place like Haiti and be an architect on the ground, designing new community centers or schools, and teaching the locals how they should be rebuilding their houses. Diving in to a project like this would be a great adventure, but I'm really not in a position to go jetting off around the world (I have a wife and two small kids who are kind of a priority right now).
The thing is that there are plenty of other opportunities to get involved. 2 of these opportunities really interested me: The first is to take part in one of the many competitions that they hold to design various developmental type projects. And the second is to start a local chapter of the organisation (because you can be sure that Mauritius doesn't have one.)
Both these things I might actually achieve, which is I'm quite surprised about. The thing about a "game" like EVOKE is that I imagined it would just be an interesting intellectual challenge. Instead, I find myself contemplating the logistics of actually acting on what I'm writing here! That was never part of the plan, but it might make the wh*** adventure even more exciting.
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