Cameron Sinclair
Co-founder of Architecture for Humanity | Social architect turning crisis into design solutions
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Cameron Sinclair co-founded Architecture for Humanity to bring innovative design solutions to humanitarian challenges. His Guns to Goals initiative converts decommissioned weapons into football goals.
He has reimagined how architecture can heal and empower communities in crisis zones. Cameron's talks show how design thinking applies to the world's most difficult problems.
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The refugees of boom-and-bust
At TEDGlobal U, Cameron Sinclair shows the unreported cost of real estate megaprojects gone bust: thousands of migrant construction laborers left stranded and penniless. To his fellow architects, he says there is only one ethical response.
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My wish: A call for open-source architecture
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