African Design Magazine May 2016 | Page 2

Editor’s view
Crowd-funded architecture
The rise of crowd-funding has been quite extraordinary. A form of
alternative finance, which has emerged outside of the traditional
financial system. The crowdfunding model is based on three principles:
the project initiator who proposes the idea and/or project to be
funded; individuals or groups who support the idea; and a moderating
organization (the “platform”) that brings the parties together to launch
the idea

Architecture In Development (A.I.D.) which can be found here:
http://architectureindevelopment.org/ was initiated to re-connect
sustainable development to architecture by developing a user-generated
knowledge platform.

Gregg Cocking

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Architecture In Development is a collective project that invites the world to research
collaboratively the cultural, social, economic and various contexts behind the architecture
projects. Your contributed knowledge, expertise and creativity will be the foundations to
develop location-specific solutions which is what sustainable architecture development
is about. Part information-sharing, part crowd-funding, A.I.D. is an open accessible
architecture platform which we hope you will explore. Enjoy reading and sharing our latest
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Cover photograph:
Norton Rose, Alice Lane by Tristan
McLaren. www.tristanmclaren.com

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