Originally posted to Architecture for Humanity’s website (see here). This interview was conducted over skype by Karl Johnson at Headquarters shortly after I left Haiti over the summer of 2012…
WHY GO TO ILE A VACHE ? It’s far, it’s hard to get to, and it’s in Haiti. Why bother to go there? Because Ile a Vache is hands down…
SIGHTSEEING IN CAP Walking around Cap Haitian is wonderful, especially after living in Port-au-Prince, where you take your life in your hands anytime you want to go for a stroll.…
Last Sunday I went to the El Saieh Gallery, which is around the corner from the Oloffson Hotel in the Pacot area of Port-au-Prince. It was a lovely, luminous space,…
Population growth, urbanization and climate change expose increasing numbers of people to natural hazards in urban areas. From New Orleans in 2005 to Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 2010, recent urban disasters…
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Here in Haiti, shopping for fruits and vegetables is not as simple as hopping over to Sainsbury’s or Fairway, filling your shopping cart with whatever’s been trucked or shipped in…
This week we started a new project together with the Dutch NGO Cordaid to take on the planning component of a process they are piloting in the neighborhood of Villa…
Every year on July 16th, people from all over Haiti make the pilgrimage to a waterfall in the mountains a few hours North of Port-au-Prince called Saut d’Eau, to celebrate…
I saw this painted on a tap-tap a few weeks ago. It more or less means, ‘you can’t get to Canaan (promised land) without passing through the desert’. This quote…
The Nerdy Nomad 