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Futurekind - Design by and for the People (Hardcover)
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Futurekind - Design by and for the People (Hardcover)
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We have grown accustomed to two beliefs: the first, that only
experts can be designers; the second, that our everyday activities
are harming the natural world. Yet, with new platforms, digital
communication and engaged online communities, the products we can
now design - and truly need - can be made by anyone for social and
environmental good. Social design can see that primary school
children learn to code, and uses local information in off-grid
locations to create global change. Open-source design is enabling
us to re-make our world right now. Structured into eight areas of
application, from healthcare to education, this book showcases over
sixty projects - not the kind you see in glossy magazines or
online, but the ones that have made a genuine difference to
communities and lives around the world. Rather than being
client-driven, as commercial design often is, each project here is
the result of designers who reach out, communities who get involved
and the technologies that helping people to realize ideas together.
From a playground-powered water pump in South Africa to a DIY
budget cellphone, each of these groundbreaking projects is
presented through fascinating and life-affirming stories, diagrams
that reveal the mechanisms and motivations behind each design
approach, and photography that celebrates the humanity of the
endeavour.
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