Japan Relief Project by Shigeru Ban

Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design and Hong Kong Design Centre are supporting Shigeru Ban's efforts to produce partition kits for close to 300,000 evacuees. Shigeru Ban has contributed to many relief projects such as designing paper tube schools in the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake and paper shelters for survivors of Haiti's earthquake. At Business of Design Week in 2008, Ban spoke on "Quake-solutions".

A donor in Hong Kong has agreed to match once JPY2.5 million has been raised for a total target of JPY5 million. To find out more about the project or to donate, click here.

NYTimes interviewed Ban last week about his earthquake relief work.


By Leonardo Bonanni @ flickr.com