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KPSP03: A PPS UNDERWAY
This past spring and summer KDI’s team in Kenya completed an RFP and site selection process for our third project in Kibera. Like KPSP01 and KPSP02, KPSP03 sits along the river running through Kibera. A larger site then KPSP02, KPSP03 will include a playground, poultry farm, improved drainage, flood control, kiosks, and a community center [...]
Summer 2012 Internship: Design
POSITION: 2012 SUMMER DESIGN INTERNSHIP Location: Nairobi, Kenya Language: Fluency in English (Kiswahili a plus) Start Date: June 2012 – September 2012 Application Due: February 24, 2012 Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI) is an innovative international partnership specializing in the practices of architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, and urban planning. KDI is rooted in participatory design [...]
We’re Hiring: Operations Manager
POSITION: OPERATIONS MANAGER Location: Los Angeles, CA Start Date: Immediate Application Due: February 15, 2012 Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI) is an innovative international partnership specializing in the practices of architecture, landscape architecture, engineering and urban planning. KDI transforms impoverished communities by collaborating with residents to create low-cost, high-impact built environments – Productive Public Spaces [...]
We’re Hiring!: Kibera Field Manager
Kounkuey Design Initiative Position: Kibera Field Manager Location: Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya Language: English and Kiswahili Start Date: February, 2012 Application Due: January 20, 2012 Position Summary Kounkuey Design Initiative is currently looking for a Project Team Supervisor and Micro-Enterprise Program Manager in Kibera, Kenya. The Kibera Field Manager position will be divided as follows: 50% [...]
Design with the Other 90%: Cities
Last weekend the Design with the Other 90%: Cities opened at the United Nations. If you don’t get a chance to visit the exhibit before it closes on January 9th, Places (an online journal of architecture, landscape and urbanism) has posted an essay by Cynthia Smith, curator of socially-responsible design at the Cooper-Hewitt, about her [...]
We’re Hiring: Landscape Architecture Internship
We are hiring a Landscape Architect Intern for our Haiti projects, the candidate must be located in Los Angeles, CA or Philadelphia, PA. For more information on the job please visit our website: www.kounkuey.org/VolunteerandJobs.html.
St. Anthony PPS Launch
While past posts have introduced to you our first US-based project, here in Southern California in the Eastern Coachella Valley, we are finally proud to say that the project is launching! After securing a grant from the California Endowment through their Building Healthy Communities Initiative, we are getting the ball rolling. This Sunday at St. [...]
We’re Hiring!
We are excited to let everyone know that we are looking for a candidate for or Haiti On-Site Project Manager position (Architect or Engineer). To find more about the job, go to our website here.
DESIGN WITH THE OTHER 90%: CITIES
Here at KDI we are always looking to develop better projects, models, and methodologies that will increase quality of life for the communities we work with. While our projects are the physical manifestations of this evolution, we also try to actively participate in a dialogue with other design and community development professionals. Presenting our work [...]