Cameron Sinclair
Cameron Sinclair (born 16 November 1973) is a designer, writer and one of the pioneers in socially responsive architecture. He set up the Worldchanging Institute, a research institute focussing on innovative solutions to social and humanitarian crises and GM of Football for Life, a US/UK based organisation that designs and builds sports facilities in areas of conflict and crisis. In 2025, the launched Guns to Goals, focussed on smelting down decommissioned weapons into football goals. He is a third generation gin maker and is co-founder of Half Kingdom Gin based in Jerome, Arizona.
In 1999 he co-founded, with Kate Stohr, Architecture for Humanity, a charitable organisation that developed architectural solutions to humanitarian crises and brought professional design and construction services to communities in need. He left the company in 2013.
He was head of social innovation and helped to develop humanitarian programmes at Airbnb. Projects included emergency short term housing for those displaced by man-made and natural disasters; livelihoods for vulnerable communities; Community-led adventure travel and rural revitalisation.
In 2012 he set up Small Works, a for purpose design company which focusses on reconstruction and social impact projects. The organisation has designed self-built re-deployable structures, many of which were built as schools in Jordan by Syrian refugees and Jordanian engineers. Over 15,000 children have been educated in these facilities. Sinclair partnered with MADE Collective to propose the world's first co-nation called Otra Nation and BorderBNB, a home-share platform for families separated by political conflict and natural disasters.
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