Cameron Sinclair: TED Prize wish: Open-source architecture to house the world

http://www.ted.com Accepting his 2006 TED Prize, Cameron Sinclair demonstrates how passionate designers and architects can respond to world housing crises. He unveils his TED Prize wish for a network to improve global living standards through collaborative design.

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[ugluspegill]

Open source, whether it's in form of text, music, architecture, design or programming is the best thing to human kind in centuries.

[ladiosaverde]

What's brilliant is the idea of an Open-source architectural site where anyone can have access to sustainable blueprints. EVERYONE has the right to sustainable living and it should not be corporatized. Thank you Cameron.

[iampeeay01]

Great video, very informative.

[michalsailor]

see this interesting project management and cooperation start up for architects, designers and engineers ARCILOOK.COM, something for us :)

[joshuadc82]

Bravo! I'm always renewed in optimism when I find people who are making a difference for everyone and fighting against exploitation.

[DrSpooglemon]

The future's bright.

The future's open-source...

[Jasy1988able]

cool video, thanks for sharing

[JCBPartners]

SINCLAIR IS A PARADISE PAVER

[arquiteuthis]

Cameron cracked a joke saying that Zaha Hadid, a famous "starchitect" is funding the "War on Terror" in Iraq and Afghanistan due to the migrant workers that are hired for work on her and other starchitects' projects in Dubai who later lose their construction jobs, and with no other sources of income or family for support, join the insurgency.

[arquiteuthis]

I had the privilege of meeting Cameron at a conference and invited him to speak at an event for the school of architecture at my university in the Spring of 2009. Some may expect him to be a something of a hippie eco-elitist, but instead, Cameron genuinely possesses a passion for people of all privileges and backgrounds.