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Welcome to the ASF-Int General Assembly 2013

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Welcome to the General Assembly (GA) meeting of Architecture Sans Frontières Interna-tional on Sunday 14 April 2013. The venue will be the Universidade do Porto – FAUP, ViaPanorâmica S/N, 4150-755, Porto, Portugal (for map see: http://goo.gl/maps/RspdG).

Each member organisation shall have a representative with the right to vote at the GA meeting.Members can be represented at the GA by another member by proxy. In such a case a documentmust be presented, showing who is representing which organisation. No member can representmore than two member organisations.

Register for the GA by sending an email to the Secretary (dickurba@gmail.com). Do not forget tostate which person is to have voting rights. Prospective members, interested persons or groups arealso welcome to attend (without voting rights).

Two day seminar at Milan

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ASF Italia organizes the seminar of the training course “Challenging Practice, Essentials for the Social Production of Habitat” on 6th to 7th of April 2013, Milan, Italy

See online : Click here for more details...

Activity Report 2012 (EN)

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ANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORT

from the Board for the year 2012

This is the sixth Annual Report since ASF–International was formally constituted in 2007. During 2012 ASF-Int has continued to recruit new members and extended its activities in other ways. Thanks to the generosity of ASF-España a permanent Secretariat has been established in Barcelona. It has worked out procedures for responding to the many requests coming to ASF-Int and carries out a number of tasks which could not be implemented earlier. The important project Development Architecture Education has been launched successfully and is proceeding to its second phase. During the year a newsletter has started to be published. The financial situation continues to be a weak point.

GA Meeting in Copenhagen April 2012

In April 2012 the GA Meeting was held in Copenhagen, hosted by ASF-Denmark. Not less than 18 member organisations were represented by 68 participants from 16 countries. Thanks to support from some member organisations travel costs could be arranged for members with scarce resources (total support: €2 600). The meeting adopted an Activity Plan in which the proposals from seven working groups were integrated by the Board after the meeting. The plan gave priority to activities structured according to the following themes:

1. Promoting the social production of human settlements through projects with a development perspective, the stimulation of professional ethics, and by establishing an international educational program about development architecture and planning.

2. Promoting project partnerships by collecting information about our member organisations to facilitate coordination and project partnerships.

3. Improve our communication by establishing a free flowing dialogue between members and the Board as well as between members.

4. Increase membership, especially in low and middle income countries and Eastern Europe.

5. Financial Autonomy in order to get resources for the secretariat in its work on the issues described above.

At the proposal of ex-chair Jordi Balari the GA meeting decided to work out principles of a membership fee proportional to the budget/turnover of each member organisation, to be implemented from 2013.

Board composition and meetings

The Board has consisted of the following ten members:

Stéphane Plisson (ASF-France)
Chair, fund-raising, activity plan To 2013

Valeria Sciarretta (ASF- Onlus-Italia)
Vice-Chair, Project coordination, fund-raising To 2014

Pawan Shrestha (EWB-Nepal)
Vice-Chair, To 2013

Rune Asholt (ASF-DK)
Treasurer, payment list, travel support applications To 2014

Dick Urban Vestbro (ARC●PEACE)
Secretary, membership list, recruiting new members, documentation to 2014

Anna Engvall (ASF-Sweden)
Vice-Secretary, interest list, newsletter To 2013

Naomi Shinkins (ASF-UK)
PP presentation, portfolio, website (beginning of year) To 2014

Richard Losalajome (ASF-RDCongo)
French translation, fund-raising To 2013

Guruprasad Rane (ASF Society, India)
Website, fund-raising To 2014

Xavier Codina (ASF-España)
Secretariat, newsletter To 2013

During 2012 the Board had the following six meetings: 4 February in Freiburg/Germany, 12 March by email, 14-15 April in Copenhagen, 18 June by email, 13 September by email, 10 November in London. The meeting in Freiburg was combined with guided tours in the city and informal meetings with AÜG Germany. The meeting in London was combined with a guided tour to the Olympic city in Stratford and a dinner with representatives of ASF-UK. The Board considers it important to meet individual members of the member organisations, especially those that are not represented in the Board. In this way ties between members are strengthened. Between meetings the Board has communicated intensively by email and sometimes taken decisions by email. Travel costs in connection with physical Board meetings have been covered by each person's member organization.

At the beginning of the year ASF-Int had 22 registered members. During 2012 Africa 70 (Italy) ceased to exist while Habitat Technology Group (India) has been put as pending due to lack of payment of fees. During the year ASF Tunisie, Association pour les Victimes de la Répression en Afrique (AVRA)/Congo-Kinshasa, ASF India Society and Fundacion ASF Colombia have been granted membership. This means that ASF-Int had 24 members at the end of 2012. ASF Macau and Ukumbi/Finland were granted membership in January and Remal, Egypt in March 2013. The following organisations have stated that they intend to apply for membership: a group in Chad, Built Environment Collective (Megawra)/Egypt and Function Architecture & design/Dubai. It is expected that these organisations will be granted membership during 2013. This would mean that we will reach the aim to have 30 members one year earlier than stipulated (2014). Development Workshop/France first indicated that it wanted to be a member, but then proposed collaboration without being a member. Among the many individuals sending messages to ASF-Int through the website some have been encouraged to form ASF organisations in their own country. This is the case with persons in Congo-Brazzaville, Jordan, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland and Venezuela. In Belgium the possibility to form a second ASF organisation has been explored. Attempts have been made to recruit AWB Canada as a member, so far without success. Both members and prospective members get regular information through email. They have also been invited to the GA meeting in 2013.

“Interest list”

During the year the Board has received many questions about internship, jobs, membership and other signs of interest from individuals visiting our website. The Secretariat and Secretary Vestbro have sent out standardized replies to these emails. Job seekers have been referred to member organisations. Those who want to become members have either been referred to the ASF member in their own country or asked to start an organisation themselves. All those seeking contact have been listed in an “interest list”, which comprises more than 250 names in 54 countries. The people on the interest list have been registered as subscribers to the newsletter. The list can be used for future recruitment of members. The many requests show that there is an increasing interest in ASF.

Secretariat

Thanks to the generosity of ASF España our network now has a functioning Secretariat. It consists of 5-6 volunteers who each work between 5 and 10 hours a week. ASF Espaňa has set aside one room of its Barcelona office for the ASF-Int Secretariat. The Board has decided to pay €1440 for the office space during 2012 and to allocate funds for travel costs of Secretariat members going to Board meetings. The Secretariat is sending out information regularly, keeps an updated membership list and carries out a number of other duties. Based on 400 documents saved by Secretary Vestbro the Secretariat has created an online space with all ASF-Int work documents, calendar/bulletin board etc available at http://www.secretariat.asfint.org. A proposal is on its way on how to make this archive available to all members.

Information Bank, coordination of projects

At the initiative of Valeria Sciarretta the Board already in 2011 asked members to fill in forms about themselves to be incorporated into an Information Bank. The idea is to get an overview of the skills and resources of members, about legal forms and structure of each member organisation, types of collaboration with other NGOs and contacts with academic and other institutions, experience of project administration and interest in common projects with other members. The Info Bank was considered to facilitate the coordination of projects between member organisations and initiate joint applications to European Union programmes and other sources. It turned out to be difficult for members to understand the purpose of the Information Bank. Therefore clarifications had to be sent out repeatedly during 2012. At the end of the year 16 of ASF-Int's 24 members had filled in the form, while information from eight members is still missing. Thanks to the collection of information the Board starts to get a grip about the needs and desires of the members. One positive result of the enquiry is that we can see which members work in the same country. The Board considers it important that members working in the same region and with similar issues learn from each other and coordinate their projects. It is hoped that the Info Bank will grow and become an important source of information to all members. During 2012 projects in Haiti run by four ASF members started to be coordinated. Representatives of ASF-España, ASF-France and ASF-Sweden had a Skype meeting in October about the Haiti experiences, which is expected to improve the efforts to address problems of post-disaster remediation in this country. With reference to the fact that several ASF-Int members work with bamboo as a cheap and sustainable building material ASF-Sweden has suggested that a conference be arranged about this topic. The Board has decided to recommend bamboo presentations at the planned seminar in Porto in April 2013.

Economic situation, fund-raising

The most problematic issue for the Board has been to find sponsors and raise funds to cover items such as travel costs and accommodation for participants in the General Assembly and Board meetings, and for the maintenance of the website and to produce publications. Guruprasad Rane, who coordinates the fund-raising committee, has submitted an application for core funding to Ford Foundation, which was not approved. Stéphane Plisson has started to contact some French companies which may become sponsors. Possible companies are: Schneider Electric, SOITEC (a micro-electronic & solar industry), GSE (a builder) and NEXITY (a real estate developer). Jordi Balari of AST España has accepted to use his contacts for fund-raising, while Anna Engvall-Synderå has offered to contact some companies in Sweden for the same purpose. As a basis for fund-raising the draft sponsor policy from 2007 has been revised and displayed at the website. The policy specifies what sponsoring companies have to fulfil and what they will get from ASF-Int. A Paypal facility is available on the website, but has not yet become a successful instrument for acquiring donations. In the absence of external funding ASF-Int continues to rely economically on membership fees, which means that resources for activities are very limited. The costs consist mainly of payment for updating the website and of support for travel costs in connection with the GA meetings. The Secretariat has been asked to make a rough estimate about all real costs for travel and accommodation of all Board members during 2012 in order to show potential funders how much will be needed in the future if/when ASF-Int shall cover all costs of the Board and Secretariat.

Website, Facebook

The website is an important instrument to promote the aims of ASF-Int. It many visits have resulted in contacts with many persons expressing an interest in our network. In collaboration with Edouard Molard of ASF-France Board members Guruprasad Rane and Naomi Shinkins have been responsible for keeping the website up to date and for uploading documents. The Board has decided to translate and upload key documents in French and Spanish, but so far this has only partly been implemented. Experiencing some weaknesses of the website design the Board asked Rune Asholt to work out a proposal for improvement. The proposal includes the following: to provide more news and easier way to locate information, to use the map better to find projects, to facilitate seeing how projects can be coordinated, to include more pictures and more non-blue colours altogether, to make the PayPal function more visible, to advertise the newsletter better, to start a forum for advertising expertise from around the world, to set up a blog forum, to display information about member organisations (from the Info Bank) and to share documents through Google. The improvements are scheduled to be implemented step-wise during 2013. At the initiative of the Secretariat the Board has decided to start an ASF-Int page on Facebook see: http://www.facebook.com/Architectur....

Newsletter

One positive results of the establishment of the Secretariat is the regular publication of the newsletter, which was started at the GA meeting in April and has resulted in the publication of three issues during 2012. The responsibility to edit the newsletter rotates between Board members, assisted by the Secretariat, which also edits and makes the layout. The Secretariat has retrieved the existing list of subscribers (more than 300) and sent the newsletter to several hundreds of people, including the Leonardo group, and all those who have shown an interest in ASF. It remains to see how individual members of member organisations can get the newsletter.

Development Architecture Education

One of the most positive achievements during the year is the launching of the course “Challenging Practices - Essentials for social production of habitat” (to be downloaded from the website at http://www.asfint.org/Challenging-P...) It consists of 11 modules (a total of 73 pages), summarizing the first theoretical part of a package of further theoretical and practical modules. Each module has links to texts, videos and online lectures for the particular theme, available as open sources. The idea is that the course, which is now given in English, shall later be given also in Spanish and French. The intention is that the course shall acquire international status and qualify for work in connection with international charity organizations, probably based on the payment of fees. The course has been worked out within the project Development Architecture Education, carried out with funding from the European Community's Lifelong Learning Programme/Leonardo Agency, with ASF-España as the coordinator and ASF members in France, UK Italy and Sweden as other partners. The Secretariat is coordinating the Leonardo work-group and assists in registrations of course members, issuing certificates, answering questions from participants and other issues.

PowerPoint presentation and Portfolio

During 2012 the Board had the pleasure to send out a PowerPoint presentation of ASF-Int to all members. The idea is to use it to explain the background and activities of ASF-Int. The PP has been made by Naomi Shinkins and Dick UrbanVestbro in consultation with Stéphane Plisson. It is available at the website. During the year Naomi Shinkins took over the task to produce a new project portfolio from Beatrice de Carli. It turned out to be difficult to make members report about new projects and to specify which of the old ones that should be kept. Since only six member organisations reported 19 new projects it was decided to include only these projects in the new portfolio while keeping the 52 projects from 2010 as a documentation of earlier activities of ASF members. The aim is not only to show the variety of ASF-Int competence, but also to use the portfolio as a basis for fund-raising.

ASF-Int at the World Urban Forum in Naples

Another prominent achievement during the year was the ASF-Int participation in the World Urban Forum in Naples, Italy, 1-7 September. The event, organised by UN Habitat, gathered more than 8 000 delegates from 150 countries, and involved virtually all major players from the urban development field. ASF-Int was present with 15 persons from France, Greece, Italy, Peru, Spain, Sweden and UK. ASF Sweden effectively coordinated common actions and the arrangement of an exhibition stand, including an open space where print material from both ASF-International and individual member organisations was displayed and distributed. Despite hard competition from other organisations ASF-Int managed to call attention to its booth by arranging lively discussions, dancing, poster exhibitions etc. ASF-UK ran a successful training session on participatory design. In reaction to the uncritical position of the official conference several ASF affiliates also participated in the parallel conference organised in downtown Naples under the banner of the Social Urban Forum. Exchanges took place with a number of CBOs, NGOs, and international agencies, opening avenues for future collaboration and partnerships. Read further at: http://asfint.org/IMG/pdf/ASF-Int_N.... In order to fund the ASF-Int participation a special voucher was worked out by ARC●PEACE and displayed at the websites of ASF-Int and ARC●PEACE. All member organisations were asked to contribute to the costs (mainly the cost of the hired booth). The result was that the total costs of €1630 could be shared fairly equally between ten members.

Contacts with other organizations

As a result of the participation in the WUF meeting the Board started to discuss possible collaboration with the Huairou Commission, Homeless International (UK), Global Land Tool Network, Safer Cities, Asian Committee for Housing Rights. Various Board members have been asked to contact these networks and get back with concrete proposals. During the year the Board has also discussed collaboration with Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA), Habitat International Coalition (HIC), United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Patrimoine Sans Frontières and Cultural Heritage without Borders in Sweden (website: http://www.chwb.org/index.php?lang=1, working almost entirely with aid to Western Balkan). Luz Maria Sanchez of ARC●PEACE has proposed that ASF-Int should apply for the status of an NGO in consultative capacity within ECOSOC of the UN. These tasks remain to be followed-up during 2013.

Others

During the year ARC●PEACE member Oscar Margenet Nadal invited ASF-Int to be one of the partners of the conference “Our common action”, to take place in Mallorca in September. The Board responded favourably to the proposal, but later the conference was cancelled. In connection with the GA meeting in Copenhagen Eric Selis of ASF-Belgium proposed that ASF-Int should explore the possibility to start a travel agency in order to raise money and promote the cause of ASF-Int. The Board has decided that the Secretariat shall keep in touch with the Joker travel agency of Eric Selis and follow the development of the "Barcelona routes", a local project to explore the city in a conscious way. The idea is to create a website dedicated to the project, showing how it can be shared with the ASF Int network (linking it to website of ASF-Int).

Final words

In conclusion, the Board finds that it has fulfilled the Activity Plan for 2012 with respect to the establishment of a Secretariat, the recruitment of new members, improving the website, launching a newsletter, starting project coordination, producing a PowerPoint presentation and a new portfolio, but not with respect to achieve financial strength, writing debating articles in professional journals, reaching out to mass media, producing a publication on the social production of habitat and professional ethics, and to use existing international networks for Corporate Social Responsibility. Despite the latter non-achievements the Board finds that a great step forward has been taken during 2012 for ASF-International.

Activity Report 2012 (FR)

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RAPPORT ANNUEL D'ACTIVITES

DU CONSEIL D'ADMINISTRATION POUR L'ANNEE 2012

C'est le sixième rapport annuel depuis qu'ASF-International a été officiellement constituée en 2007.En 2012 ASF-Int a continué à recruter de nouveaux membres et a étendu ses activités à d'autres.Merci à la générosité d'ASF-Espagne qui a accepté l'établissement d'un secrétariat permanent àBarcelone. Il a travaillé sur des procédures afin de répondre aux nombreuses demandes faites à 'ASF-Int et effectuer un certain nombre de tâches qui ne pouvaient pas être mises en œuvre plus tôt.L'important projet Development Architecture Education a été lancé avec succès et se dirige vers sadeuxième phase. Au cours de l'année, une lettre d'information a commencé à être publié. Lasituation financière continue d'être un point faible.

Assemblée Générale (GA Meeting) de Copenhague en avril 2012 En Avril 2012, l'Assemblée Générale s'est tenue à Copenhague, organisée par ASF Danemark. Pasmoins de 18 organisations membres étaient représentées par 68 participants provenant de 16 pays.Merci à certaines organisations membres qui ont apporté leur soutien au cout de voyage d'autresmembres ayant des moyens très limités et le soutien total était de 2 600 €. L'Assemblée Générale aadopté un plan d'activité dans lesquels les propositions de sept groupes de travail ont été intégréespar le Conseil d'Administration après l'Assemblée. Le plan a donné la priorité aux activitésstructurées selon les thèmes suivants:

1. Promouvoir la production sociale des établissements humains à travers des projets dansune perspective de développement, la stimulation de l'éthique professionnelle, et enmettant en place un programme éducatif international sur l'architecture et la planification dudéveloppement.

2. Promouvoir les partenariats de projet en collectant des informations à propos de nosorganisations membres pour faciliter la coordination et les partenariats de projets.

3. Améliorer notre communication en établissant un dialogue libre entre les membres et leConseil d'Administration, et aussi bien entre les membres.

4. Augmenter les adhésions, en particulier dans les pays à revenu faible et intermédiaire etl'Europe orientale.

5. Autonomie financière afin d'obtenir des ressources pour le fonctionnement du Secrétariatdans ses travaux sur les questions décrites ci-dessus.

Sur proposition du Président honoraire Jordi Balari l'Assemblée Générale a décidé de travaillersur les principes d'une cotisation proportionnelle au budget / chiffre d'affaires de chaqueorganisation membre, la proposition devrait être mise en œuvre à partir de 2013.

La composition du Conseil d'Administration et les Réunions Le Conseil est composé de dix membres suivants:

Stéphane Plisson (ASF - France)
Président, Recherche de financement et Plan d'Activités 2013

Valeria Sciarretta (ASF- Onlus-Italia)
V/Présidente, Coordination de projet et Recherche de Financement 2014

Pawan Shrestha (EWB-Nepal)
V/Président 2013

Rune Asholt (ASF-DK)
Trésorier, récolte de fonds et soutien au transport 2014

Dick Urban Vestbro (ARC●PEACE)
Secrétaire Général, liste des membres, recrute-ment de nouveaux membres et documentation 2014

Anna Engvall (ASF-Sweden)
Secrétaire Générale Adjointe, liste d'intérêt, lettre d'information 2013

Naomi Shinkins (ASF – UK)
Power Point de présentation, Portfolio, site web 2014

Richard Anthony Losalajome (ASF – RDCongo)
Recherche de financement et Traduction française 2013

Guruprasad Rane (ASF Society, India)
Site web, recherche de financement 2014

Xavier Codina (ASF-España)
Secrétariat , lettre d'information 2013

Durant l'année 2012, le Conseil d'Administration a tenu six (6) réunions suivantes: 4 février àFribourg en Allemagne, le 12 mars par e-mail, 14-15 avril à Copenhague au Danemark, le 18 Juin pare-mail, le 13 septembre par e-mail, le 10 novembre à Londres en Angleterre. La réunion de Fribourga été combinée avec des visites guidées dans la ville et des réunions informelles avec AUG-Allemagne. La réunion de Londres a été combinée avec une visite guidée de la cité olympique deStratford et un dîner avec les représentants d'ASF-UK. Le Conseil d'Administration estime qu'il estimportant de rencontrer les adhérents des organisations membres, en particulier celle qui ne sontpas représentés dans le Conseil d'administration. De cette façon, les liens entre les membres sontrenforcés.

Entre les réunions le Conseil d'Administration a beaucoup communiqué de manière intensive etparfois pris des décisions par e-mail. Les frais de déplacement liés aux réunions physiques du Conseild'Administration ont été couvertspar l'organisation membre de cha-que Administrateur. Au début de l'année ASF-Int comptait 22 membres enregistrés. En 2012 Africa 70 (Italie) a cesséd'exister alors qu' Habitat Technology Group (Inde) a été mis en attente en raison du manque depaiement de cotisation. Au cours de l'année ASF Tunisie, Association pour les Victimes de laRépression en Afrique (AVRA) du Congo-Kinshasa, ASF India Society et Fundación ASF Colombia ontadhérées. Cela signifie qu'ASF-Int comptait 24 membres à la fin de 2012. ASF Macao et Ukumbi de laFinlande ont été admis membres en Janvier et Remal, de l'Egypte en Février 2013. Les organisationssuivantes ont déclaré qu'ils avaient l'intention de demander l'adhésion: un groupe au Tchad, BuiltEnvironment Collective (Megawra)/Egypt et Function Architecture & design/Dubai. Il est prévu queces organisations soient agréées comme membres au cours de l'année 2013. Cela signifie que nousatteindrons l'objectif de 30 membres, un an plus tôt que prévu (2014). Development Workshop /France a d'abord indiqué qu'il voulait adhérer, mais a ensuite proposé une collaboration sans êtremembre.

Parmi les nombreuses personnes qui envoient des messages à ASF-Int sur le site Web certainesont été encouragées à former des organisations d'ASF dans leur propre pays. C'est le cas avec despersonnes au Congo-Brazzaville, en Jordanie, au Nigéria, en Norvège, au Pakistan, en Pologne et auVenezuela. En Belgique, la possibilité de former une seconde organisation ASF a été explorée. Destentatives ont été faites pour recruter AWB Canada en tant que membre, sans succès jusqu'àprésent. Les membres et les membres potentiels recoivent régulièrement des informations par e-mail. Ilsont également été invités à l'Assemblée Générale 2013.

«Liste d'intérêt» Au cours de l'année, le Conseil d'Administration a reçu de nombreuses questions au sujet de stage,d'emploi, d'adhésion et d'autres signes d'intérêt des personnes qui visitent notre site web. LeSecrétariat et le Secrétaire Vestbro ont envoyé des réponses standardisées à ces courriels. Lesdemandeurs d'emploi ont été dirigés vers les organisations membres. Ceux qui veulent adhérer ontsoit été renvoyés au membre d'ASF dans leur propre pays ou proposé de créer une organisation eux-mêmes. Tous ceux qui cherchent le contact ont été répertoriés dans une «liste d'intérêt», quicomprend plus de 250 noms dans 54 pays. Les personnes de la liste d'intérêt ont été enregistréesdans la liste de diffusion à la lettre d'information. La liste peut être utilisée pour le recrutement futurde membres. Les nombreuses demandes montrent qu'il existe un intérêt croissant pour ASF.

Secrétariat Merci à la générosité d'ASF España car ASF-Int a maintenant Secrétariat en fonction. Il est composéde 5 à 6 bénévoles qui travaillent chacun entre 5 et 10 heures par semaine. ASF Espaňa a réservé unepièce de son bureau de Barcelone pour le Secrétariat d'ASF-Int. Le Conseil d'Administration a décidéde payer € 1440 pour l'espace de bureau en 2012 et d'allouer des fonds pour les frais de voyage desmembres du Secrétariat qui participent aux réunions du Conseil d'Administration. Le Secrétariatenvoie régulièrement des informations, tient une liste à jour des membres et procède à un certainnombre d'autres tâches. Sur la base de 400 documents enregistrés par le Secrétaire Vestbro, leSecrétariat a créé un espace en ligne pour tous les travaux, documents d'ASF-Int, planchecalendrier/bulletin etc disponible à http://www.secretariat.asfint.org. Une proposition est en courssur la façon de rendre ces archives accessibles à tous les membres.

Base des données, la coordination des projets A l'initiative de Valeria Sciarretta le Conseil d'Administration déjà en 2011 a demandé aux membresde remplir des formulaires sur eux-mêmes pour être incorporés dans une base des données. L'idéeest d'obtenir une vue d'ensemble des compétences et des ressources des membres, sur la formejuridique et la structure de chaque organisation, les types de collaboration avec d'autres ONG et descontacts avec les établissements universitaires et d'autres, l'expérience de l'administration de projet,et de leur intérêt à des projets communs avec d'autres membres. La base des données a étéenvisagée afin de faciliter la coordination des projets entre les organisations membres et de lancerdes candidatures communes aux programmes de l'Union Européenne et d'autres sources. Il s'estavéré difficile pour les membres de comprendre le but de la base des données. Par conséquent desclarifications devaient être envoyées à plusieurs reprises au cours de l'an 2012.

A la fin de l'année 16 des 24 membres d'ASF-Int avaient rempli le formulaire, alors que lesinformations de huit membres sont toujours manquantes. Grace à collecte de renseignements leConseil d'Administration commence à avoir une vue sur les besoins et les désirs des membres. Unrésultat positif de l'enquête est que nous pouvons voir quels membres travaillent dans le mêmepays. Le Conseil d'Administration estime important que les membres qui travaillent dans la mêmerégion sur des questions similaires apprennent les uns des autres et coordonnent leurs projets. Il estespéré que la base des données grandisse et devienne une source importante d'information pourtous les membres.

En 2012 des projets en Haïti dirigée par quatre membres d'ASF ont commencé à être coordonnés.Les représentants des ASF-Espagne, ASF-France et ASF-Suède ont eu une réunion par Skype enOctobre sur les expériences en Haïti, ce qui devrait améliorer les efforts pour traiter les problèmes depost-catastrophe dans ce pays.

En ce qui concerne le fait que plusieurs membres d'ASF-Int travaillent avec le bambou commematériau de construction durable et économique, ASF-Suède a suggéré qu'une conférence soitorganisée sur ce sujet. Le Conseil d'Administration a décidé de recommander des présentations surce sujet lors du séminaire prévu à Porto en Avril 2013.

La situation économique, la collecte de fonds La question la plus problématique pour le Conseil d'Administration a été de trouver des sponsors etdes fonds pour financer des éléments tels que les frais de déplacement et d'hébergement pour lesparticipants aux réunions de l'Assemblée Générale et du Conseil d'Administration, et pour lamaintenance du site web et de produire des publications. Guruprasad Rane, qui coordonne le comitéde collecte de fonds, a présenté une demande de financement de base auprès de la Fondation Ford,qui n'a pas été accordée. Stéphane Plisson a commencé à contacter des entreprises françaises quipeuvent devenir des sponsors, telles que : Schneider Electric, SOITEC (une industrie de la micro-électronique et solaire), GSE (un constructeur) et NEXITY (un promoteur immobilier). Le Conseild'Administration a également décidé de demander à Jordi Balari d'ASF - España d'utiliser ses contactspour la collecte de fonds, tandis qu'Anna Engvall-Synderå a offert de contacter certaines entreprisesen Suède dans le même but.

Comme base pour la collecte de fonds, le projet de charte sponsorat de 2007 a été révisé etaffiché sur le site Web. La charte sponsorat précise les critères que les entreprises de parrainagedoivent remplir et ce qu'ils peuvent attendre d'ASF-Int. Une lien de Paypal est disponible sur le siteWeb, mais n'est pas encore devenu un instrument efficace pour l'acquisition de dons. En l'absence de financement externe ASF-Int continue de dépendre économiquement desadhésions, ce qui signifie que les ressources pour les activités sont très limitées. Les coûts secomposent essentiellement de paiement pour la mise à jour du site Web et de soutien pour les fraisde voyage en rapport avec les réunions de l'Assemblée Générale. Le Secrétariat a été invité à faire une estimation de l'ensemble des coûts réels de déplacement etd'hébergement de tous les membres du Conseil d'Administration en 2012, afin de montrer auxbailleurs de fonds potentiels les besoins de financements dans l'avenir si / quand ASF-Int doit couvrirces frais.

Site Web, Facebook Le site Web est un instrument important pour promouvoir les objectifs d'ASF-Int. Il a donné lieu à denombreux contacts avec des personnes qui expriment un intérêt pour notre réseau. En collaborationavec Edouard Molard d'ASF-France, les membres du Conseil d'Administration Rane Guruprasad etNaomi Shinkins ont été responsabilisés de garder le site à jour et de télécharger des documents. LeConseil d'Administration a décidé de traduire et télécharger des documents clés en français et enespagnol, mais jusqu'à présent, cela n'a été que partiellement mises en œuvre. Constatant certainesfaiblesses du designe du site, le Conseil d'Administration a demandé Rune Asholt de travailler surune proposition d'amélioration. La proposition comprend les éléments suivants: offrir plus denouvelles et de facilité pour localiser les informations, d'utiliser mieux la carte pour trouver desprojets, afin de faciliter et de voir comment les projets peuvent être coordonnées, afin d'inclure plusde photos et plus de couleurs autres que le bleu, pour rendre la fonction PayPal plus visible,présenter la lettre d'information, pour lancer un forum et la promouvoir de l'expertise de partoutdans le monde, de mettre en place un forum de blog, pour diffuser des informations sur lesorganisations membres (de la Base de données) et de partager des documents via Google,. Lesaméliorations sont prévues pour être mises en œuvre par étapes au cours de 2013.

A l'initiative du Secrétariat, le Conseil d'Administration a décidé de lancer une page ASF-Int surFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/Architectur....

Lettre d'information en ligne Un des résultats positifs de la mise en place du Secrétariat est la publication régulière de la lettred'information en ligne, qui a été lancé lors de l'Assemblée Générale en Avril et a abouti à lapublication de trois numéros en 2012. La responsabilité de rédiger la lettre d'information tourneentre les membres du Conseil d'Administration, assisté par le Secrétariat, qui rédige également etfait la mise en page. Le Secrétariat a récupéré la liste existante de souscripteurs (plus de 300) et aenvoyé la lettre à plusieurs centaines de personnes, y compris le groupe Léonardo, et tous ceux quiont manifesté leur intérêt pour ASF. Il reste à voir comment les adhérents individuels desorganisations membres peuvent obtenir la lettre d'information.

Développement Architecture & Education L'une des réalisations les plus positives au cours de l'année est le lancement des cours «Challengingpractices - Les indispensables pour la production sociale de l'habitat" (à télécharger à partir du sitehttp://www.asfint.org/Challenging-P..., 156.html)

Il se compose de 11 modules (un total de 73 pages), résumant la première partie théorique d'unensemble de nouveaux modules théoriques et pratiques. Chaque module contient des liens vers destextes, des vidéos et des conférences en ligne pour le thème particulier, disponibles en sourcesouvertes. L'idée est que le cours, qui est maintenant en anglais, doit être donné plus tard aussi enespagnol et en français. L'intention est que le cours doit acquérir un statut international et quali-fication pour le travail dans le cadre d'organisations caritatives internationales, probablement basésur le paiement de frais.

Le cours a été élaboré au sein du projet Développent Architecture Education , réalisée grâce aufinancement de la Communauté européenne / Programme Agence Leonardo, avec ASF-Espagne entant que coordinateur et les membres d'ASF en France, du Royaume-Uni, Italie et en Suède qued'autres partenaires. Le Secrétariat coordonne le programme Leonardo, le travail de groupe et aideaux inscriptions des membres aux cours, la délivrance des certificats, répondant aux questions desparticipants et d'autres sujets.

Présentation PowerPoint et Portfolio Au cours de 2012, le Conseil d'Administration a eu le plaisir d'envoyer une présentation PowerPointd'ASF-Int à tous les membres. L'idée est de l'utiliser pour expliquer le contexte et les activités d'ASF-Int. Le PP a été fait par Naomi Shinkins et Dick Urban Vestbro en consultation avec Stéphane Plisson.Il est disponible sur le site Web. Au cours de l'année Naomi Shinkins a pris en charge la tâche de produire un nouveau portfolio deprojets transmis par Béatrice de Carli. Il s'est avéré difficile de supprimer les projets antérieurs. Sixorganisations membres ayant signalé 19 nouveaux projets, il a été décidé de n'inclure que ces projetsdans le nouveau portfolio tout en conservant les 52 projets à partir de 2010 en tant quedocumentation des activités antérieures de membres d'ASF. L'objectif est non seulement de montrerla variété de compétence d'ASF-Int, mais aussi d'utiliser le portefolio de base pour la collecte defonds.

ASF-Int au Forum Urbain Mondial à Naples Une autre réalisation importante au cours de l'année a été la participation d'ASF-Int au Forum urbainmondial à Naples, Italie, 1-7 Septembre. L'événement, organisé par ONU-Habitat, a réuni plus de 8000 délégués de 150 pays, et a impliqué presque tous les grands acteurs du domaine dudéveloppement urbain. ASF-Int était présent avec 15 personnes en provenance de France, de Grèce,d'Italie, du Pérou, d'Espagne, de Suède et du Royaume-Uni. ASF Suède a coordonné efficacementdes actions communes et la disposition d'un stand d'exposition, y compris un espace ouvert où lesdocuments à la fois d'ASF-International et les organisations membres individuels ont été présentéset distribués. Malgré une rude concurrence d'autres organisations ASF-Int réussi à attirer l'attentionsur son stand en organisant des discussions animées, danse, expositions d'affiches, etc. ASF-UK aorganisé une session de formation réussie sur la conception participative. En réaction à la positioncritique de la conférence officielle de plusieurs filiales, ASF a également participé à la conférenceparallèle organisée dans le centre de Naples, sous la bannière du Forum social urbain. L'un desrésultats positifs a été l'échange avec un certain nombre d'organisations communautaires, des ONGet des agences internationales, des voiesd'ouverture pour une future collaborationet les partenariats. Lire plus sur:http://asfint.org/IMG/pdf/ASF-Int_N.... Afin de financer la participation d'ASF-Int, un bon de souscription spécial a étéélaboré par ARC●PEACE et affiché sur lessites Web d'ASF-Int et ARC●PEACE. Toutesles organisations membres ont été invitéesà contribuer aux coûts (principalement lecoût du stand loué). Le résultat a été que lecoût total de € 1630 devrait être partagé àpeu près également entre les dix membres.

Les contacts avec d'autres organisations À la suite de la participation au WUF de Naples, le Conseil d'Administration a commencé à discuterd'une collaboration possible avec Huairou Commission, Homeless International (UK), Global LandTool Network, Safer Cities, Asian Committee for Housing Rights . Divers membres du Conseild'Administration ont été invités à prendre contact avec ces réseaux et de revenir avec despropositions concrètes. Au cours de l'année, le conseil d'Administration a également discuté de lacollaboration avec Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA), Habitat International Coalition (HIC),United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), Patrimoine Sans Frontières and Cultural Heritagewithout Borders in Sweden (site web: http://www.chwb.org/index.php?lang=1, qui travaille presqueexclusivement avec l'aide aux Balkans. Luz Maria Sanchez de l'ARC ● PEACE a proposé qu'ASF-Intdemande le statut d'une ONG à titre consultatif au sein de l'ECOSOC de l'ONU. Ces tâches doiventencore être poursuivies durant 2013.

Divers Au cours de l'année un membre d'ARC ● PEACE Oscar Margenet Nadal a invité ASF-Int à être l'un despartenaires de la conférence «Notre action commune", qui devait lieu à Majorque en Septembre. LeConseil d'Administration a répondu favorablement à la proposition, mais plus tard, la conférence aété annulée. Dans le cadre de la réunion de l'AG à Copenhague Eric Selis d'ASF-Belgique a proposé qu'ASF-Intdevrait étudier la possibilité d'ouvrir une agence de voyage afin de récolter des fonds et depromouvoir la cause d'ASF-Int. Le Conseil a décidé que le Secrétariat reste en contact avec l'agencede voyage Joker d'Eric Selis et suivre le développement des «routes de Barcelone», un projet locald'ASF Espagne pour découvrir la ville d'une manière consciente. L'idée est de créer un site web dédiéau projet, en montrant comment elle peut être partagée avec le réseau ASF Int (avec un lien au siteweb d'ASF-Int).

Conclusion En conclusion, le Conseil d'Administration estime qu'il a rempli le Plan d'activité pour 2012 en ce quiconcerne la mise en place d'un secrétariat, le recrutement de nouveaux membres, l'amélioration denotre site Web, le lancement de la lettre d'information en ligne, le lancement de coordination desprojets, la production et la présentation du PowerPoint et d'un nouveau Portfolio, mais n'a pasatteint le renforcement financier, la rédaction d'articles dans des revues professionnelles et débats,la sensibilisation des mass – média, la publication sur la production sociale de l'habitat et de l'éthiqueprofessionnelle, et l'utilisation des réseaux internationaux existants pour la responsabilité sociale desentreprises. Malgré ces dernières non-réalisations, le Conseil d'Administration conclut qu'un grand pas a étéfranchi en 2012 pour ASF-International

PORTFOLIO 2012

guruprasad rane — 2013-02-13T12:20:54Z

The international network ArchitectureSans Frontières – International (ASF-Int)is working for “equitable, social, culturaland environmental commitment to architecture, construction, urbanism and the conservation of historical heritages tohuman development” (Hasselt Charter).This portfolio of projects shows how this noble goal is implemented in practice.The portfolio is the second one compiled during the short existence of ASF-Int. It contains descriptions of 18 projects from 5 member organisations.

The present portfolio is additional to the one compiled in 2010, which comprised descriptions of 51 projects from 13 member organisations. Some of these are completed while others are still ongoing. That portfolio is available for downloading at the website, partly as a documentation of ASF-Int achievements in the past.

The projects in the present portfolio cover building types such as schools, clinics, housing, community centres and infrastructure such as bridges, public space, recycling centres and sanitation. Many projects focus on the use of local building materials, experiments with new constructions techniques and energy-saving design. The projects address issues such as social integration, environment for children, cultural conservation, rural development, disaster prevention, refugee housing, slum improvement, community participation and training of professionals.This wide variety reflects very well the scope and aim of ASF-Int.

About 2/3 of the projects are located to low-income countries while 1/3 are located to Europe or Australia. One may note that almost all projects are carried out incollaboration with local partners, many ofwhich represent unprivileged groups and community-based organisations. The portfolio is only a small sample of works realised by ASF-Int's members. Inorder to get a full picture one has to visit the websites of the member organisations.

We hope that the project portfolio (together with the earlier one) will serve to promote commitment to social habitat,ethical considerations, participatory processes and professional responsibility. On behalf of the Board of ASF-International

Dick Urban Vestbro

Secretary

Stockholm 11 January 2013

Report from Board meeting held on 10-Nov-2012 at London

guruprasad rane — 2012-11-21T18:07:15Z

Well-functioning Secretariat, new members, regular newsletter Report from Board meeting 10 November in London

The recent meeting of the ASF-Int Board could record some clear victories in its work to consolidate the position of ASF-International. Most important is the fact that ASF-Int now has a well-functioning Secretariat in Barcelona. It consists of 4-5 volunteers who each work between 5 and 10 hours a week. ASF Espaňa has been kind enough to set aside one room of its Barcelona office for the ASF-Int Secretariat, without knowing whether our international network will be able to pay the costs. At the London meeting it was, however, decided to pay €1440 for the office space during 2012 and to allocate funds for travel costs of Secretariat members going to Board meetings

Thank you Alvaro, Thais, Alba and Rachele for your dedicated work without payment! And thanks to ASF Espaňa for its generous support to ASF-Int consolidation!

One positive results of the establishment of the Secretariat is the regular publication of the newsletter. The Secretariat assists in editing it and makes the layout. The Secretariat has managed to retrieve the list of subscribers and send no 3 of the newsletter to several hundreds of people. It remains to see how individual members of member organisations can get the newsletter.

Another recorded progress is the fact that new organisations are on their way to become members. After having lost one member ASF-Int has 24 member organisations. The Board noted that there are new applications from Macau, Finland and France, at the same time as we assist groups in several other countries to establish membership status. It is likely that we will reach the aim in the Activity Plan to have 30 members in 2014.

The Board meeting decided to approve the proposal from ASF-Portugal to have the next General Assembly meeting Sunday the 14th of April 2013 in Porto. Note this date in your calendars! Saturday the 13th will be devoted to a seminar and Monday the 15th to sightseeing. There is much to see of cultural heritage, social projects and modern architecture in Porto!

The Board meeting had the pleasure to note that ASF-Int now has a presentation in PowerPoint available to all members who want to use it to explain the background and activities of ASF-Int. The PP has been made by Naomi Shinkins and Dick UrbanVestbro in consultation with Stéphane Plisson. It may be downloaded from the website. The Board approved a proposal by Naomi Shinkins to upload a new portfolio of 19 new projects reported by member organisations while keeping the portfolio of 2009 with 54 projects.

At the London meeting the Board also decided to approve Rune Asholt's proposal to revise the layout of the website in order to provide for more news and easier way to locate information. The Board furthermore decided to approve the proposal of the Secretariat to start an ASF-Int page on Facebook.

The most problematic issue for our network is to find sponsors and raise funds to cover costs such as travel costs and accommodation for participants in the General Assembly and Board meetings, and for the maintenance of the website and make publications. Guruprasad Rane, who coordinates the fund-raising committee, has submitted an application for core funding to Ford Foundation, and Stéphane Plisson has started to contact some French companies which may become sponsors, but so far no external funding has been achieved.

Dick Urban Vestbro, secretary.

Presentation

Edouard — 2012-09-12T15:27:11Z

Open publication - Free publishing - More architecture

Challenging Practice is now online

Edouard — 2012-08-13T09:27:51Z

Challenging Practice is a project developed by an Architecture Sans Frontières partnership funded by the European Commission under the LLP Leonardo Da Vinci programme to develop a training that teaches built environment professionals to work and engage with the low-income majority in the urban context. It involves five ASF organisations, and it was implemented over a two year period thanks to the volunteer work of a number of ASF members and associates based in France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the UK.

Challenging Practice

Edouard — 2012-08-13T09:06:29Z

website: http://www.challengingpractice.org

Who?

What?

We have been partnering on this project over two years, designing a training programme called ‘Challenging Practice. Essentials for the Social Production of Habitat'. This training intends to challenge built environment professionals' existing knowledge and perspectives, to enable them gain an introduction to the appropriate competencies and understanding of how to work effectively with margialised communities, to ultimately address the problems of urban poverty.

Why?

This course has been developed as ASF International strongly believes that the construction of social facilities for the benefit of the most underprivileged sectors of the world's population requires a broader approach from built environment professionals. It is hoped that the course will build on existing skills and experience, and broaden the focus that we are all encouraged to accept during our studies and working lives, so that we together can improve conditions for the world's urban poor by providing appropriately trained professionals.

For Who?

This complete course is aimed at professionals working in the built environment (architects, engineers, builders, planners, urban designers, etc) and is delivered in English in every partner-country participating in the project. The core parts of the training will be delivered online for working professionals to be able to study in their own time.

How?

The course is divided into four stages: a theoretical online introduction, a two-day seminar, a deeper theoretical online course and finally a practical workshop. We have developed different stages to this training integrating a short and long-term approach. Our short term approach is to deliver Stage 1 of the training, which has been completed at the end of July 2012 and is now available for free download. The graphic below outlines the overall training including the short and long-term approach.

STAGE 1: now available for free download

This stage provides an initial overview of the knowledge required to engage with vulnerable groups in the urban context. It lays the foundations of understanding the complexities in this field. We have divided this first stage of the course up into 12 modules which are not intended to have any form of hierarchy in how they are approached, other than the Urban Context Module which lays the foundations for the learning. All the modules cover complex and difficult subjects and this first stage of the overall training is intended purely as an introduction to the topics. Each module is composed of a summary of the topic, including links to other relevant modules. To supplement the text we suggest some key readings or films, and form an essential part of the module. All the readings are freely accessible on the internet: if the links provided should be no longer active, learners are invited to look for them on the internet by means of typing their titles into any search engine. The whole introductory course should take approximately 50 hours to complete, including compulsory readings and videos. The entire collection of modules that form Stage 1 of the training can be downloaded here.

REGISTER TO DOWNLOAD THE ENTIRE COLLECTION OF MODULES

STAGE 2

The second stage is a weekend seminar and will be delivered at least four times a year (once in each partner-country). It will enable participants to reflect on their knowledge through case studies and facilitated discussions and interactive scenario building and role plays. Information about the first round of seminars will be uploaded soon.

STAGE 3

This stage will also be delivered online and will allow more in depth learning of the topics covered in Stage 1. It will provide further literature and more technical data to complete the learning outcomes. This stage will also measure the learning of trainees through an evaluation which will assess each individual's understanding of the course up until this point.

PRACTICAL - INTERNSHIP OR WORKSHOP

The ASF partners involved are either specialised in running national or international workshops and/or in delivering projects nationally and internationally. This final stage will allow practical hands-on experience, to put into practice the theoretical learning of previous stages through a practical internship or the attendance of a workshop in the field. Initially these will be with the current ASF partners, with the intention of including new partners for the ongoing development and execution of the course.

July 31, 2012