Launch of Sites We Like: The Open Architecture Network (with free template)
Hi,
We've been running the Sites We Like section in our newsletter for years and it's always been popular, so I'm creating a new Sites We Like section here.
I've been following the media and bloggers on the TED Conference that ended last weekend. (We've featured the Ted Talks on the Sites We Like section of our newsletter before. I recommend taking a moment to watch their video of lectures from amazing inventors, artists, scientists, technologists, activists, and mavericks.)
Every year, the TED conference organizers award prizes to people to have their wish fulfilled. One of last year's prize winners, Cameron Sinclair, is an architect and founder of Architecture for Humanity. (You can watch a video of Cameron Sinclair on th TED site.)
This week in fulfillment of his wish, Cameron and the folks at Architecture for Humanity launched a Web site called the Open Architecture Network.
His wish is to solve global, social and humanitarian crisis with design. Right now one in seven people live in slum settlements. By 2020 it will be one in three. He wants his site to be a catalyst for an architectural revolution that will improve worldwide living conditions on a mass scale. The Open Architecture Network is an "online, open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design."
It's a beautiful idea -- and it's not surprising that a group of architects who want to spearhead an architectural revolution would represent their mission with a beautiful, well-designed website.
In the spirit of the democratization of technology that prevails at the TED conference and in the mission of Open Architecture Network, I want to let you know how easy it is for anyone to create in WildPresenter the beautiful slideshow featured on the front page of OAN's site.
In ten minutes, I created a template in WildPresenter of the slide show you see on their front page.
You can download this template (3.1 MB) and open it in either your WildPresenter license, or your free WildPresenter demo.
I invite you to use it as a guide for creating your own work. And if you use it to help improve the world like the good folks at OAN, or have something you're proud of and would like to share, let me know.

