Sketch Zine #1: The Barter Issue

A small independent publication that is for and by at risk and homeless youth.
Made from one sheet of 8.5x11" recycled paper printed in one colour, cut to make 16 total printable pages.
Sample pages:

Immigrant Support and Integration Campaign

CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation

CIVICUS is an international alliance dedicated to strengthening citizen action and civil society throughout the world.

CIVICUS seeks to amplify the voices and opinions of ordinary people and it gives expression to the enormous creative energy of the growing sector of civil society. It recognizes that for effective and sustainable civic participation to occur, citizens must enjoy rights of free association and be able to engage all sectors of society.

Link to Dossier

Architecture for Humanity

Architecture for Humanity
Building a more sustainable future using the power of design.
Through a global network of building professionals, Architecture for Humanity brings design, construction and development services to communities in need.

Amnesty International

Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all.

Supporters are outraged by human rights abuses but inspired by hope for a better world - so they work to improve human rights through campaigning and international solidarity.

Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971.

Today, MSF provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters.

The Red Cross

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is an impartial, neutral and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of war and internal violence and to provide them with assistance. It directs and coordinates the international relief activities conducted by the Movement in situations of conflict. It also endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening humanitarian law and universal humanitarian principles.

OXFAM International

Working with more than 3,000 local partner organizations, OXFAM works in over 100 countries to overcome poverty and injustice with people striving to exercise their human rights, assert their dignity as full citizens and take control of their lives.

Millenium Development Goals for International Humanitarian Organisations

UNICEF
United Nations Children's Fund

The United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF - works for children's rights, their survival, development and protection.

These are the UN's Millenium Development Goals:

1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender equality and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases
7. Ensure enviornmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development

http://www.unicef.org/

Natalie Jeremijenko lecture

OCAD's Faculty of Design presents a talk by designer Natalie Jeremijenko, Director of the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, where she is an assistant professor in Art, and affiliated with the Computer Science Department. She is also a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art in London, England and an artist not-in-residence at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California.

Jeremijenko, whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering, creates work described as experimental design, as it explores opportunities presented by new technologies for non-violent social change.

Her work has been exhibited at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. A 1999 Rockefeller Fellow, Jeremijenko was recently named one of the 40 most influential designers by I.D. Magazine and one of the inaugural Top 100 Young Innovators (TR100) by the MIT Technology Review.

This lecture will be great background for our next assignment, Design for a humanitarian outcome.


When: 6:45pm, Thursday February 12, 2009, OCAD auditorium