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CURRENT ACTIVITIES:

COURSES:

BUILDING:

· Unfolding School (upcoming)

· Portable School (operating)

10 KEY PROJECTS:

· International Studio (Phnom Penh)

· Kids & the Built Environment 1

· Kids & the Built Environment 2

· Portable School

· Training Programmes

· Continuing Professional Development

· Migrant Construction Workers study

· Symposium 2010

· Urban Codes & Human Rights

· Construction contracts and Human Rights

CONTACT:

CAHR International

464 Stannard Avenue, 
Victoria, BC 
V8S 3M5, Canada

 

CAHR in Thailand

231/2 South Sathorn Road,  
Yannawa, Sathorn,
Bangkok 10140, Thailand

IN THE NEWS:

· Executive Director, Graeme Bristol interviewed in architectureBC, January 2010

· Executive Director, Graeme Bristol interviewed by Bangkok Post, August 2009

· Portable School on Thai Channel 9 and Executive Director Graeme Bristol interviewed.

· Executive Director, Graeme Bristol interviewed by Radio Nederlands

CAHR 2010:

· March— Bangkok: The homeless of Sanam Luang (with KMUTT)

· May—Vancouver : Lecture at AGM of AIBC

· Jun—Completion of Draft, ‘Architecture and Human Rights’

· October—Bangkok

WRITING:

· Summer Studio

Just completed: 

· “Surviving the Second Tsunami: land rights in the face of buffer zones, land grabs, and development” (2010), in Lizarralde, G., Davidson, C., and Johnson, C. (eds.), Rebuilding after disasters: From emergency to sustainability, Taylor & Francis.

· “Rendered Invisible: Urban Planning, Cultural Heritage, and Human Rights” (forthcoming), in Logan, W., Nic Craith, M., and Langfield, M. (eds.)Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights, Routledge.

For April 2010:

· "Architecture & Human Rights" (forthcoming) in Cushman, Thomas (ed.), Handbook of Human Rights, Routledge.

TEACHING

Professional Degree Programme (with KMUTT)

· Studio – Community Design

· Architecture and Human Rights

· Ethics for Design Professionals

· Housing

· Professional Practice

· Environmental Psychology

· Human Impacts on the Environment

 

Continuing Professional Development:

· Architecture and Human Rights (AIBC, for May 2010)

· Migrant Construction Workers: Architectural Responses in the International Arena (AIBC, 2009)

· The Portable School (MADE, 2009)

· Right to the City (RAIC, 2006)

· The Role of Architecture in Post-Disaster Development (RAIC, 2005)