Announcements

2012 Curry Stone Design Prize News - April 19, 2012

In January the Curry Stone Foundation and Advisors met, reviewed 400 nominations, and selected...

CURRY STONE DESIGN PRIZE AT HARVARD - November 21, 2011

The Curry Stone Design Prize celebrated its three 2011 winners with a two-day festival at...

2011 Curry Stone Design Prize Winners Announced - October 14, 2011

Bend, OR (October 4, 2011)—The 2011 Curry Stone Design Prize Winners were announced today with...

In the News

  • All Africa - March 12, 2012
    Rwanda: Three Local NGOs Honoured for Promoting Women
  • Architectural Record - March 1, 2012
    Taiwanese architect and 2011 Curry Stone Prize winner Hsieh Ying-Chun helps a Chinese village rebuild for the better after an earthquake, using local expertise and materials.
  • Harvard Business Review - February 17, 2012
    How One CEO Grows Her Business with Feeling
  • National Geographic - November 30, 2011
    From Smart Phones to Smart Farming: Indigenous Knowledge Sharing in Tanzania
  • The East Architects Newspaper - October 19, 2011
    Prized Design

2010 Winners

Sustainable Health Enterprises

2010 Curry Stone Design Grand Prize Winner

Sustainable Health Enterprises (SHE) is addressing girls’ and women’s lack of access to menstrual pads, causing them to miss up to 50 days of work and school annually. Since 2009, the SHE Team, led by founder Elizabeth Scharpf, has built the groundwork to launch a sustainable, locally based micro-capital industry to combat this issue through community based education, business skill training and product design. SHE has designed feminine hygiene products made from locally-sourced banana fiber in Rwanda. Extended Profile

Elemental

2010 Curry Stone Design Prize Winner

Elemental, a Chilean design firm and self described “Do Tank” has raised the bar for public housing in the developing world with its transformative design for Iquique’s Quinta Monroy shantytown. Working in close consultation with local residents, Elemental countered the trend of displacing poor people from urban centers by stacking duplex units at diagonals from one other. Founders Pablo Allard, Andres Iacobelli, and Alejandro Arevena’s designs have not only solved the problem of density, but maximized the $7,500-per-unit budget by building “starter” homes that allow people to easily expand and individualize their spaces. As Aravena likes to say, each unit has “the DNA of a middle-class home.”

The firm is now working to build similar dwellings in cities in Brazil, Portugal and other countries.
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Maya Pedal

2010 Curry Stone Design Prize Winner

Maya Pedal is a nonprofit organization that invents and builds “Bicimaquinas,” – pedal-powered machines made from used bicycles that make agricultural and household tasks faster and easier for rural residents with limited access to gas and electricity. Founded by Carlos Marroquin, Maya Pedal makes its designs, for everything from grain mills to washing machines and blenders, “open source” so anyone can build them. Their designs, made with bike donations from the U.S. and Canada, have helped spawn small business enterprises in Guatemala and beyond.
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