POCAA (Platform of Community Action and Architecture)
A platform where people from different backgrounds with the interest of working for low-income communities engage with each other. This platform is well connected with the socially vulnerable communities in Dhaka and are actively working with youth groups from various communities. POCAA has been co-creating various designs with these communities using tools like community mapping, profiling, and implemented housing and other social infrastructures in different parts of Bangladesh. “Let people be the solution” is at the core of our philosophy, and all of the ventures aim to elevate the practice of community architecture and to establish a network between the communities to share good practices.
Objectives
Collectives
To ensure the well-being of the collectives (both the professional team and the community team)
Reaching The Other 90%
To reach to the people who can’t access professional supports and are not often visible or heard in the decision making process (it can be low-income communities, women and children)
Empathy
To make space for everyone to express one’s feelings, aspiration and proactively participate with happiness and dignity
Co-Create
To co-create with groups/communities for creative solution (mainly of living env.) of any problem
Community-Led
To learn and facilitate communities to discover their strengths and beauty and understanding collective needs in the truest sense so that our work is not focused on end results or tools.
Process
To facilitate the process of co-creation. It itself is the product (more important than the end product), which is the result of the truest understanding of people’s needs.
