Go HAM! Help A Mate is a platform that helps you better
support your community after a flood.
Flood events around the world from 2022-2023
The project proposes Go HAM!, a decentralized aid coordination platform designed with and for spontaneous volunteers. It repositions young people as capable, ethical first responders.
Key concepts include:
Role-based deployment teams (check-in, cleanup, hot kitchen).
A digital platform matching skills to needs in real time.
Trauma-informed, culturally aware training and engagement protocols.
Go HAM! is presented as a prototype and provocation for resilient futures where recovery is locally driven, ethically designed, and socially intelligent.
It challenges dominant, top-down narratives of disaster response and reframes spontaneous volunteerism as a vital civic infrastructure. One that design can empower.
