Life has three essential concerns – quality, equality, and sustainability.
Architecture, as a medium for dignified living, often ends up being a tool for a few to enhance their quality of life, build wealth, gain power – or a superficial symbol of these "achievements." When architecture only serves democratic governments or capitalist markets, we are challenged with facing deep societal divides, unrelenting natural and man-made disasters, and widespread suffering.
Architecture should strive to make life more equal and sustainable, while acting as a humanitarian effort that crosses professional, national, regional, religious, and racial boundaries. ASF Taiwan is dedicated to working with like-minded individuals around the world to achieve this collective vision.
Chairperson
Architecture Sans Frontières
Chen-Yu Chiu
Cooperate for fair and sustainable development initiatives in active collaboration with disadvantaged people or communities. This process shall follow principles of human solidarity, non-discrimination and will be aimed at promoting their self-sufficiency.
Foster the socially responsible role of built environment professionals by stimulating social modes of practice before speculative economic profitability.
Encourage ‘ethical professionalism’ by favoring cooperation and practice in hand with ‘ethical trade’, and with entities and financing institutions that work for peace-building processes.
Identify, disseminate and work alongside public institutions, multilateral organizations and private sector’s policies, programmes and sustainable socio-economic systems fostering social equity and urban inclusion within the built environment.
Facilitate the use of appropriate technologies, materials and labor adequate to local values, to the cultural specificity and responsive to the natural environment.
Share knowledge, promote discussion, reflection and awareness, and collaborate in the advancement of the ‘social production of habitat‘.
Promote the facilitation of trans-national dialogues and long-term partnerships with and within the less affluent countries.
Support participatory, democratic, multicultural and interdisciplinary processes and approaches in strengthening community solidarity as a factor of rural and urban social development.
Endorse the integration of post-emergency relief interventions into long-term sustainable development strategies.
Defend, promote and enable access to adequate and dignified habitat for all as a ‘Fundamental Human Right’.
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