Maternity Waiting Homes, Bagh-e Jahan Palace, Bamyan National Park

Construction in war zones raises a number of issues, especially about the rebuilding of social relationships by providing activities and places that can stimulate community growth. In 2001 Maria Grazia Cutuli, a prominent Italian journalist, was murdered by a group of gunmen in Afghanistan. After ten years, the Foundation named after her, decided to build a ‘sign of peace’, a school as an innovative educational space as an alternative to those models related to the afterwar reconstruction emergencies.

(Re)collecting Mostar is part of a greater attempt by Abart of using art to move social boundaries. Mostar is a divided city, lacking general cultural activities.

Archis Interventions began its work in Cyprus in 2010, when it founded a local NGO that is run essentially by Cypriot architects and urbanists. Cyprus has been a divided country since several decades. Various attempts have been made to overcome the division of the country yet they have only rarely proved successful to date. The division has a direct impact on the development of urban structures.

The cityscape of Bucharest is dominated by huge, standardized public housing estates built during the socialist era, mainly in the 1970s and 1980s – in which circa 70 per cent of the city’s population still live. Following the collapse of state socialism and the introduction of a market economy, most public housing was privatized.

In response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza which has left thousands of families living in sub-standard conditions, the UUSC together with the AFSC the Youth Bank and Architects for peace have launched an extensive analysis of the housing situation. Combining psycho-social assistance, practical support to needy families, and housing repairs, the goal of the project was to re-establish a sense of normalcy in the lives of people, especially young people, by engaging youth in the mental and physical reconstruction of their communities.

’20 Centres for 2010′ was a campaign of the sporting body FIFA to harness the global event for social change during the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Skateistan is a skateboarding school in Kabul, engaging growing numbers of displaced youth through skateboarding.

Nicosia on the island of Cyprus is the only capital in the world to be still divided. Since 1974 a demilitarized buffer zone, the Green Line, has physically divided the city and indeed the entire island in two. In an attempt to find spatial and architectural means of reuniting the two cultures, Gert Breugem developed a strategy that would stimulate the process of cultural change and regeneration in the heart of the old town.