Be part of the world house project.

Having launched our discourse on design culture with the Massive Change project, the Institute without Boundaries is embarking on our next multi-year collaboration -- to design a sustaining, universal and healthy human dwelling. That challenge is different depending on where you are. In developed countries, we have urban sprawl and monster houses that consume huge amounts of the world’s total energy supply while polluting the atmosphere. In developing countries, over a billion people live in urban slums or in the streets without shelter.

By the year 2030, three billion people in the developing world will need housing. That’s 96,150 housing units per day.

The Institute without Boundaries will carry out an interdisciplinary project that involves students, teachers, and industry and community experts. The ambition of the project is to generate a housing system that achieves a balance between extremes of urban sprawl and urban slums and enables people to build sustaining, universal, and healthy human dwellings and communities. We will start locally and seek collaboration with other schools and institutions around the world to work on this challenge.

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