Part 1: Mapping and Matchmaking Efforts in the Informal Aid Ecosystem “[The] point is not to welcome disasters. They do not create these gifts, but they are one avenue through which these gifts arrive. Disasters provide an extraordinary window into social desire and possibility, and what manifests there matters elsewhere…

From Disaster Risk Reduction to Design for Resilience and Regeneration: Three Prototypes in three Years “What if we changed the narrative of Disaster Risk Reduction or DRR, into that of Design for Resilience and Regeneration?” This is what inspires our design as Green Releaf Initiative. It started in 2009 when I was helping pack relief goods full of plastics and processed food. Looking at the massive pile of carbon packed…

This is what inspires our design as Green Releaf Initiative. It started in 2009 when I was helping pack relief goods full of plastics and processed food. …

The first time I saw the image above was in my grade school text book. I feel I lost its meaning over time because I see it often through the years, being a standard image for cooperation in my country, the Philippines. Recently, I was showing this image to European…

I moved to this beautiful new space full of light and wind last July. Until recently, I haven’t used this corner beside my bed. At first it was because there was a leak that it would form puddles when it rains. The repair from the roofing outside took months and…

“Always follow your intuition; delight in beauty; find the image that captures the “heart’s core” of a conflict; listen for the poetry of human relationships; etch a shape into the chaos, beat a rhythm into the dark; and rely on the creative act, as the artist, to bring into existence…