Society for Humane Development

The SHD believes that the many problems and challenges that face mankind may be profitably addressed through the creative application of plentiful, cheap, decentralized, hardware and software.

From elegant curved roofs built from sandbags, dirt, and barbed wire, to futuristic communication and commerce networks built from consumer electronics of the type that finds itself in our basements, junk drawers, and garbage dumps, the SHD wants to show others how to make space for permanence, innovation, resillance, reflection, and leisure, in a world that is, in many ways,

around the world, cheap distributed tools.