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Compost Kenya
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Bonneau Haiti
AgriCULTURE, an Expanded View, Casablanca, Morocco
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Kounkuey Design Initiative (KDI) partners with residents of impoverished areas to develop and implement design solutions that improve physical, economic, and social quality of life. We call the low-cost, high impact environments we create Productive Public Spaces.

News
Internship Opportunity
KDI is hiring a Landscape Architect Intern for our second project in Coachella. The position is part-time starting immediately and will be located in Los Angeles with occasional travel to the Eastern Coachella Valley for participatory design workshops. For more information go to our jobs page here.
Project Updates

In January, KDI began the participatory design workshops for our second project in the Eastern Coachella Valley in the community of North Shore. In December, we celebrated the opening of our third Kibera Public Space Project. Finally, this Spring we anticipate the completion of our fourth Kibera Public Space Project. For more information on new and ongoing efforts please visit our blog.

Productive Public Space

Kibera, Kenya

Compost Kenya

Kibera, Kenya

Productive Public Space

Kibera, Kenya

Kiki Weavers

Kibera, Kenya

Productive Public Space

Kibera, Kenya

agriCULTURE

Casablanca, Morocco

Community Meeting

Bonneau, Haiti

agriCULTURE

Casablanca, Morocco

St. Anthony

Coachella, California

The Academy

Bonneau, Haiti

Productive Public Space

Kibera, Kenya