Residents living in informal urban settlements are being relocated to formal mass produced housing prototypes outside city centers. These prototypes for public housing have been largely unsuccessful for a complex number of reasons, including undesirable living environments for families. Displaced people face compounded obstacles to success, with issues such as lack of infrastructure, transportation and public amenities leaving individuals feeling powerless to impact their own lives. Building upon the premise of barn raising or quilt making, this call utilizes social networking as the foundation for a virtual, integrated, pluralist design process, that seeks a middle ground between top-down and bottom-up systems, aims to better utilize the collective intelligence of designers, makers and users to design creative interventions and customizable retrofits for 1) private, 2) shared and 3) public spaces with/by/for residents who currently live in a "formal" housing development in Igaraé, Brazil.