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Learn how a new breed of designers is responding to humanitarian crises and rethinking the social and economic future of the more than two billion people worldwide currently surviving in sub-standard living conditions. Architecture for Humanity co-founder Cameron Sinclair will explore these issues when he visits Cranbrook Art Museum on April 12 at 7pm as part of the Wired Speaker Series.

Frustrated that less than two percent of the world benefits from architectural services and that one in seven people live in slum settlements, Sinclair co-founded the non-profit Architecture for Humanity to help find architecture solutions to humanitarian crises and brings design services to communities in need. For the last six years his team has initiated and implemented a number of programs including post-Katrina disaster relief in New Orleans; housing ideas for returning refugees in Kosovo; mobile health clinics to combat HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa; mine clearance programs and playground building in the Balkans; and disaster recovery assistance in Grenada, India, Iran and Sri Lanka.

Sinclair has made guest appearances on BBC World Service, CNN International and NPR to discuss a wide range of topics such as sustainable development, how policy affects design and the global AIDS pandemic. In 2004, Fortune Magazine recognized him as one seven people changing the world for the better and his organization was the recipient of the ASID Design for Humanity Award. More recently, he received the 2005 Lewis Mumford Award for Peace and was one of three winners of the 2006 TED prize.

Cameron Sinclair's lecture is for all ages and is free with museum admission. For more information, call 1-877-GO-CRANBrook or visit www.cranbrookart.edu. For more information on Architecture for Humanity, visit www.architectureforhumanity.org.