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2013 Game Changers

Creative risk takers transforming design

By John Cary & Martin C. Pederson

Posted February 13, 2013

Course# MET172
Expires: January 2015
This course is AIA/CES registered for 1 LU HSW/SD

Read the article with the following learning objectives in mind. Then complete the participant exercise online.

Women’s Opportunity Center:
Sharon Davis Design takes on a life-changing project with Women for Women in Kayonza, Rwanda.

Edward Mazria:
The CEO and Founder of Architecture 2030 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, turned our planetary crisis into a design problem, and then got architects to do something about it.

Learning Objectives:

— Understand how social benefit can drive sustainable design
— Learn about the sustainable design elements that enrich the lives of Rwandan women
— Learn how architectural activist Edward Mazria turned a planetary environmental problem into a design challenge
— Learn the strategies behind energy use, emissions, and collaboration with Architecture 2030

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“Game Changers | Architecture: Women’s Opportunity Center,” “Game Changers | Advocacy: Edward Mazria,” © 2013 by Bellerophon Publications, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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