publications
December 2019
Co-Create Yangon: Strategic Planning for Community-led Housing
Size: 8280MB
This report summarises the activities and output of the workshop “Co-creation: Strategic Planning for Community-Led Housing” hosted by Women for the World (WfW) with the assistance of the Community Architects Network (CAN) during November 2019. It offers a conceptualisation of co-creation in the field of community development for the context of Yangon, and provides an overview of existing practices and initiatives that WfW and urban poor communities have been involved with in the course of the last decade.
June 2019
REFLECTIONS ON THE CAN WORKSHOP IN JHENAIDAH BANGLADESH
Size: 2549MB
A reflection on what it means to be architects who are trying to create things with community people, in new ways. They call this "co-creation", and they work with communities and citizens to co-create houses, co-create settlement plans and co-create cities.
March 2013
CAN's Comprehensive Report of their Activities 2010 -2012
Size: 3448MB
Since 2010 as the network and networking started, there are 27 groups of young professionas lin 17 Asian countries - working on participatory design and planning, city-wide mapping and surveys, seeking design solutions to improve quality of life and health of community, as well as training community builders.
June 2010
Regional Architects Meeting in Chiang Mai
Size: 8992MB
The panel discussions held at the meeting are summarised and scripts available for download Here.
The Regional Community Architects Meeting which ACHR organized in Chiang Mai (June 12-16, 2010) may very well have been the biggest-yet gathering of young COMMUNITY ARCHITECTS in Asia. 125 people joined the meeting, hosted by Chiang Mai University's Architecture Faculty, and held (at least initially) in the leafy, open-aired "Umbrella Courtyard".
Present were community architects and planners - mostly youngish and idealistic, but there were also some mid-career and senior community architects from around Asia, with a few friends from southern Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Colombia. There were also community leaders from several Asian countries who are veterans of their own community design and construction projects, and a team from the Chang Chumchon community builders network in Thailand.