Institute without Boundaries

Institute without Boundaries in partnership with LACAP (Latin American Canadian Art Projects)

The Institute without Boundaries (IwB) is a nine-month, post-graduate program offered through the School of Design at George Brown College. Central to this work are real projects of public and global significance that are executed by students, faculty and industry experts as part of academic curricula, research initiatives and creative projects.

From 2003 – 2009, IwB focused on the World House project, an initiative that confronts the issue of shelter for coming generations by developing housing systems that operate on the principles of sustainability, universality, technological responsiveness and ecological balance. The faculty and students seek to create advanced housing solutions that are globally responsible and locally appropriate.

Community Partners
The IwB program centres on real design projects with tangible outcomes. Each year, the Institute partners with external organizations, community groups and other schools. This year, IwB will partner with LACAP to develop a project with the City of Lota.

Lota
In 2010-11, the IwB curriculum will enter the second phase of City Systems by introducing a long-term resilience masterplan for the City of Lota, Chile destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami. We are submitting this proposal in order to implement the specific design of a school for the city of Lota.

History
One of the initial steps established by LACAP was to promote Lota as a City that needed international aid. LACAP’s fundraising efforts to help the city enabled to establish a close relationship with the city of Lota and government representatives. As a result, the local Chilean community decided to lobby towards establishing a twinning proposal between the two cities and has been pressuring City Council to support relief efforts for the city of Lota.

On May 17, 2010, the City of Toronto’s Executive Committee recommended to:
1. City Council request the Government of Canada to significantly increase the $2 million set aside for earthquake relief in Chile, and specifically that the Federal Government match the money of private donations to relief efforts;
2. City Council urge the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) to take action as deemed necessary to reach out to counterparts in the Federal Government and Chile to offer technical support for the City of Lota;
3. The City of Toronto consider any formal request from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and Chile for technical partnership assistance for the City of Lota;
4. The City of Toronto assess any formal request from the City of Lota for a structured City Twinning arrangement through the International Alliance Program (IAP);
5. City Council endorse George Brown College/LACAP to develop IwB program with Lota, Chile, such endorsement being for the purpose of helping George Brown College/LACAP in raising third party awareness and funding.

2010-11 Team
The interdisciplinary IwB team is made up of 8 to 15 post-graduate students from a wide variety of backgrounds in design, arts, science and business.

In addition to faculty from design, architecture, planning, construction and culture, the Institute will work with LACAP to generate a list of guest speakers that will engage students with Chilean cultural and artistic, architectural, geographical, economical, and historical educational tools broadening student’s knowledge of the region. LACAP will also serve as a liaison between IwB and the City of Lota as we begin to deal with the client interests and design needs towards a regional masterplan. IwB will also bring in other groups to contribute to different phases of this project.

Students, architects and other professionals will go to Lota to both learn about the needs and priorities needed in September/October and then to present a long-term master plan for the City in May/June.

CCDC Centro Comunitario Deportivo Las Canchas

Población de emergencia Las Canchas

Es probable en un comienzo asociar el programa deportivo de un centro comunitario con disciplinas establecidas dentro de la población, afortunadamente en este lugar podemos localizar espacios exteriores consolidados para el desarrollo de estas ya hace varios años.

Desafortunadamente para situaciones en este tipo de contextos, las necesidades demandadas son más básicas aun. Actualmente los niños afectados de manera directa por la catástrofe y actuales residentes de las Mediaguas, representan el grupo de mayor vulnerabilidad, que si bien dentro de la inocencia no perciben el problema de forma general. El comienzo del invierno pondrá en crisis su nueva forma de vida, ya que sus actuales viviendas no le otorgaran el espacio para actividades físicas, obligando a las familia a mantenerlos encerrados día a día, fomentando el sedentarismo, contagio de enfermedades o privacidad en el núcleo familiar, sin mencionar la inminente segregación del contacto con su comunidad.

Es esta situación de emergencia en la cual el proyecto se desarrolla. Su ubicación se estableció de forma paralela al actual CESFAM, ya que su participación consolidada ante la comunidad, presenta la oportunidad de reforzar esta asociación entre nuevos pobladores y vecinos.

La estrategia principal del proyecto consiste en invertir la mayor parte del presupuesto en la creación de un espacio cubierto, que otorgue una superficie para las actividades recreativas de los niños que son imposibles desarrollarlas al interior de las viviendas transitorias, circunstancia perfecta para proporcionar a su vez actividades de forma comunitaria e invirtiendo el presupuesto restante en la construcción especifica de un solo espacio cerrado que contendrá un programa básico para su desarrollo, y que será posible modificar o completar durante el tiempo, para concentrar el uso de distintas actividades comunitarias.

El resultado no solo responderá a las actividades que se generen de forma directa a través del valioso espacio para los niños en su actividad inmediata, el juego, sino que también es necesario hacer énfasis en lo poderoso que es la conformación de una organización comunitaria, ya que son sus familias y comunidad, las que se preocupan del bienestar de estos pero con un carácter a largo plazo.

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Descarga la propuesta completa formato CCDC.pdf
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DPXC505W

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It is likely at first to associate the sports program of a community center with established disciplines within the community: luckily in this place we can locate consolidated outdoor spaces for the development of these several years ago.

Unfortunately for situations in these contexts, the most demanded needs are even more basic. Currently children directly affected by the disaster and current residents of the neighborhood, represent the most vulnerable group, but as part of their innocence they don’t actually see the overall problem. The onset of winter will bring crisis to their way of life, as their current homes do not have spaces for physical activities, forcing the family to keep children indoors every day, encouraging a sedentary lifestyle, spread of disease and lack of privacy for the family, not to mention the impending separation from their community.

It’s this emergency situation in which the project builds on. Its location was established parallel to the current CESFAM, since its participation with the community brings the opportunity to strengthen the partnership between new residents and neighbors.

The project's main strategy is to invest the bulk of the budget to create a covered space, creating a space for the children to carry out recreational activities that otherwise would be impossible to have inside the transitional housing. This is also the perfect condition to provide community activities, and investing the remaining budget in the construction of a single enclosed space containing a basic program for development and that will be modified or supplemented over time, to concentrate the use of different community activities.

The result not only respond to activities that are generated directly through the valuable space for children in their immediate activity, the game, but it is also necessary to emphasize how powerful is the creation of a community organization, and who are their families and community, they care about the welfare of these but with a long-term nature.
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Download the full proposal
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Reconstruyendo Redes - reconstruccion Radio Comunitaria de Cumpeo - La radio como motor de reconstruccion social

Radio Comunitaria Rural Nueva Cumpeo 103.3

Somos un Grupo de Arquitectos y profesionales que estamos abocados a la reconstruccion de una radio comunitaria en la comunidad de Cumpeo y creemos firmemente que el reconstruir una radio no solo implica la reconstruccion de un medio de habitabilidad sino tambien de un medio de SOCIABILIDAD reflejado en la radio como instrumento.

La Radio Nueva Cumpeo, lleva mas de 6 años transmitiendo para toda la comunidad de Rio Claro y via Internet a todo el mundo via el portal Forocuidadano.cl.Conformada por una agrupacion de minusvalidos esta radio es el unico agente de difusion comunitaria con que cuenta este pueblo.

Esta radio resulto gravemente afectada por el terremoto, quedando totalmente destruidas sus instalaciones y sin la posibilidad de volver a transmitir de manera regular nuevamente. El proyecto pretende reconstruir las instalaciones de esta radio,buscando volver a levantar la red que quedo ausente y muda mientras se produjo el silencio radial tras el terremoto.Para nadie es desconocido que estas radios en el mundo rural son verdaderas INSTITUCIONES SOCIALES en cuanto son organos que articulan las comunicaciones y los lazos entre los vecinos, lo que las constituye directamente en infraestructuras de produccion social y cultural local. El reconstruir una radio comunitaria no es solo un bien material sino un bien a la RED SOCIAL entorno a ella. Por eso es que la porpuesta quiere ir un poco mas alla de la recosntruccion y plantea la creacion del proyecto como un AULA - RADIO de orden comunitario, donde la radio se trasnforma en un aula por medio de los diverzos intercambios de conocimiento y vivencias que se producen en el dia a dia,desde los recados que se dejan, hasta las ofertas de trabajo. Todas estas realidades seran ahora expuestas y compartidas en un lugar y una situacion, a esta situacion se le llamara AULA.

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We are a group of architects and professionals involved in the reconstruction of a local radio from the Cumpeo Community. We believe that rebuilding a radio means not just rebuilding its headquarters but also its social role, being the radio its tool. The New Cumpeo Radio has been on the air for more than 6 years broadcasting for the community of Rio Claro and for the whole world via Internet in Forocuidadano.cl website.

Brought together by a group of disabled people, this radio is the only means of community broadcasting available to the village. The radio was seriously damaged by the earthquake and its facilities were completely destroyed being impossible to broadcast regularly again. The project aims at rebuilding the radio facilities seeking to put up the net that remained silent after the earthquake.

It's common knowledge that radios are true social institutions in rural areas. They articulate communications and create bounds between neighboring communities. They are therefore the infrastructure for local social and cultural production.
Building a community radio its not just about material goods but an improvement of the social net around it.

That is why the proposal goes a bit further and plans the creation of a community Classroom. The radio would turn into a classroom by means of knowledge exchange, everyday experiences, job offers. All those realities will be exposed and shared in this new space which we call CLASSROOM.