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Please help by nominating the project and tell all your friends and family to do the same. I know the nomination process can be a bit confusing, so please follow these simple directions:
1) Click on this link to go to
our project
2) Click the Nominate this Project button on the center of the page
3) Follow the directions to either log in as an American Express card member, or sign up as a guest member
4) You will be directed back to the project, at which point you should be able to click the Nominate this Project button again
5) Click on the discuss button and tell the jury about how the collaboration between AFH and Lulan will help create huge change.
And that's it!
Let's use the power of the Architecture for Humanity network by forwarding this information to as many people as you can - the more people that nominate the project, the better chance we have to allow us to partner on this incredible
project. We are only 2000 nominations short!
Next week I'll give an update on where we stand.
Cheers
Cameron Sinclair
Eternal Optimist, Architecture for Humanity
About The Project
Lulan Artisans is a locally driven social venture that creates an alliance between textile designers and gifted artisans to produce hand-woven fabrics through-out South Asia. By providing economic opportunity and stability this project
helps preserve the art of hand-weaving in Asia while creating environmentally sustainable fabrics. Collections include fabric-by-the-yard, as well as home and fashion accessories are already marketed through select retailers and outlets.
Now Lulan Artisans is ready to expand, hire thousands of weavers and build innovative off-the-grid weaving centers whose profits will support these artisans but also provide health care and schooling for their children.
Architecture for Humanity and its' designers will provide innovative off-the-grid weaving centers that respects tradition but represents a new way forward. Each building will not only be an anchor for these artisans but will signal change
has arrived. Building designs will shared openly with anyone wanting to replicate them through a Creative Commons licensing mechanism on the Open Architecture Network. This way innovation is shared and more communities can benefit.
On a local level Lulan Artisans currently supports over 650 weavers, spinners, dyers and finishers using a holistic approach to produce fabrics that are better for the environment. These centers are in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and
Vietnam. Our goal is to produce additional weaving centers to increase the number of artisans to over 6,000, thus increasing our production and expanding our reach to many more weaving families and communities.
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