Design To Empower

Our mission is to explore new forms of design advocacy in marginalized communities. In response to the often passive and simplified role of design within both development and aid programs, we attempt a social enterprise that initiates development through the lens of community-based design. 

Our work seeks to initiate creative investments that broaden the range and increase the intensity of local cultural and economic exchanges through spatial and programmatic compounds - launching collaborative, conversations and provisional networks that can be sustained through well-designed infrastructures addressing need and growth. Our approach will emphasize on renewal of existing configuration and small-scale materialization, with minimal intervention and optimized use of resources.  

By identifying the common ground between cultural and economic programs based on needs and public service, we also seek to materialize sustainable building programs supported by local community, external resources and our design and construction expertise. 

As a research and design collaborative funded  in 2013 at Harvard Graduate School of Design, fabersociety has a group of  professionals  dedicated to design and management who are passionate about making a difference at micro levels. We pool our knowledge and experience in architecture, real estate, NGO operation, marketing and media relations with practical field knowledge in the social and cultural conditions of Mainland China.

愿景

梓集的目标是通过高质量的建筑与基础设施设计，同时将基础需求与文化意义有机复合，为项目和周边地区带去可持续的公共影响力。我们通过社会企业的创新形式，首次将设计作为主推力量，积极参与社区营造、城乡更新与文化保护。

梓集重视本土化的建筑语言、复合的设计思维与亲和的介入姿态，并在技术上充分融合当地建筑手段与技术，从而唤醒社区的场所感与归属感。此外，我们更积极通过研究、推广与联合募资等多种形式，主动与企业、非营利机构、志愿者和居民紧密合作，从而支持更多中小型公共设施与组织的创建与运营，实现区域有机更新与在地文化传播的愿景。

梓集于2013年在哈佛大学设计学院（GSD）成立。设计团队在建筑设计与改造、本土建筑语言与材料、精细化施工方面均有深入研究和实践经验，而发展团队则拥有资产管理、传播策划、国内外社会组织合作等复合行业资源。