Architecture for Humanity is hosting an open competition to develop drawings and cartoons that can explain how to build more earthquake resistance housing in light of the recent tragedy in Pakistan. The main challenge is to be able to convey technical concepts to a large population with varied degrees of education and to avoid committing any cultural faux paus’ in the process.

The description from the website:

“The competition is to provide illustrations or cartoons that graphically demonstrate the concept of the technical principles given below. Any text used in the illustrations will be translated into Urdu. The competitor must take into account the practical consequences of this in terms of how text is incorporated into the illustrations. Urdu may be incorporated by the competitor at this stage – if so please provide a translation into English as well! ”

Enter today and make a lasting change! Your work could save the lives of millions!