Kate Stohr is an American journalist,
data scientist and civic activist based near San Francisco, CA. She was the director of a Data Science initiative at Simon & Schuster. She founded 99 Antennas. In 2016 she covered the U.S. Presidential Elections as a data journalist with Fusion
and noted for her coverage of the online dominance of the Trump candidacy
and for her reporting on the racial inequality in US prosecutor elections
In 1999 she co-founded
Architecture for Humanity
Architecture for Humanity was a US-based charitable organization that sought architectural solutions to humanitarian crises and brought professional design services to clients (often communities in need). Founded in 1999, it laid off its staff and ...
with
Cameron Sinclair
Cameron Sinclair (born 16 November 1973) is a designer, writer and one of the pioneers in socially responsive architecture. He currently serves as pro bono executive director of Armory of Harmony, a US-based organization focused on smelting dow ...
, a humanitarian architecture and design organization that focused on designing and building housing for people suffering from environmental disasters, refugee camps and other people in need. She was managing director of the organization until May 2013.
In 2006, Sinclair and Stohr published a compendium on socially conscious design, titled ''Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises'' (May 2006, Metropolis Books).
In 2012 they released the follow-up, titled ''Design Like You Give A Damn
Building Change From The Ground Up'' (May 2012, Abrams Books).
As a result of the 2006
TED Prize
TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an American-Canadian non-profit media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading". TED was founded by Richard Sau ...
along with Sinclair, Stohr developed and launched the
Open Architecture Network
Open Architecture Network was the world's first online open source community dedicated to improving global living conditions through innovative and sustainable design. It was developed by Architecture for Humanity and incorporated Creative Commons ...
, the world's first open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and
sustainable design
Environmentally sustainable design (also called environmentally conscious design, eco-design, etc.) is the philosophy of designing physical objects, the built environment, and services to comply with the principles of ecological sustainability ...
.
In 2012 the Open Architecture Network merged with
Worldchanging to expand its work to both the built and natural environment.
In August 2008 Stohr was named as joint recipient of the Design Patron Award for the 2008 National Design Awards.
In 2009 Stohr was awarded the
Bicentenary Medal of the Royal Society of Arts
The Bicentenary Medal of the Royal Society of Arts is awarded to "a person who, in a manner other than as an industrial designer, has applied art and design in great effect as instruments of civic innovation", as long as the winner is not already ...
for increasing people's resourcefulness.
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