DESIGN EXCHANGE has renovated, redesigned and furnished one of The Ali Forney Center’s (AFC) living spaces. AFC is largest and most comprehensive organization dedicated to housing homeless LGBTQ youth. Nearly 40% of the homeless youth population is LGBTQ. Homeless LGBT...

Homeless for the Holidays is an annual campaign launched by The Ali Forney Center (AFC) to give a voice to the thousands of homeless LGBTQ youths on the streets of our country.  During the holidays many of the young people who call AFC home feel a greater sense o...

Just in time for the holidays, Design Exchange – a new model for social innovation within the architecture and design field, has completed its inaugural project for an NYC family in need. Designers Sean Carlson Perry and Amy Hill transformed a single mother’s outdated...

DESIGN EXCHANGE  has redesigned one of The Ali Forney Center’s (AFC) Emergency Housing apartments. AFC Emergency Housing is lodging for youth in crisis and often acts as the first bed these youth have seen since leaving home.  80 percent of AFC residents are homeless...

Well-being is a dynamic state in humans, constituted by ‘a sense of individual vitality’, a need ‘to undertake activities which are meaningful,engaging, and which make them feel competent and autonomous’, and an ability ‘to cope when things go wrong and be resilient to...