104th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Shaping New Knowledges

Practicing Humility in Design Understanding Context and Community Engagement in International Projects

Annual Meeting Proceedings

Author(s): Megan Reineccius

The intention of a development organization is, as the word ‘development’ implies, creationof positive change to environment. Historically however, development projectsconcerning the built environment dating to the late 19th century imperialists rampantconstruction of European style cities in foreign contexts to the mid-century use ofAfrica as a “laboratory and playground of modernist architects and town planners”1to today’s countless failed and abandoned charitable projects, are often inefficientand detrimental to the cultural and ecological environment.

Volume Editors
Robert Corser & Sharon Haar

ISBN
978-1-944214-03-6