Amplifying the marginal - making the faint voices heard - design
Designers are talking about changing the world. Some call is social design, some call it service design, many call it design thinking. What is this? These are new ways of thinking, new wasy of solving probelms and new problems. Its sayonara to object design!
A project to look at Design Solutions for the Millennium Goal #5.
5 year long design projects. Industrial Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
7 projects, as campaigns and products. Reflection on a Studio in 2009. The studio participants were students of year 4 in the Industrial Design Program at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Conversations 48 deg C - a two day symposium brought together Indian and international experts on ecology, urban space, architecture and public art. Keynote: Soumitri Varadarajan, RMIT Response: Sanjay Prakash, Energy Conscious Architect Chair: Ashok Lall, Urban Planner Architect Provocateurs include: Amar Kanwar, Artist; Bharati Chaturvedi, Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group; J.K. Dadoo, Environment Secretary, Government of India http://www.48c.org/index.html
A Project to recycle waste on campus.
A project that began in 1998 as a collaboration between IITD, Delhi, and ITDP New York. It continued on as more projects with different people - and continues to be an interest in Pedal Power vehicles.
In 2005 Shreya and Matteo Martignoni came to Melbourne and worked with Mick Douglas on the Pedal Power Workshop. And Luca Abate churned out this quite awesome video of that journey.
A collection of three projects - car sharing, 100 mile diet and products for Diabetics. A Video used in the information session for students to choose their project.
That may sound a touch harsh but the whole bottled water thing is spiralling out of control. Every day all over the world people consume a zillion gigalitres of bottled water. That’s enough empty bottles every day, to make a 1:1 model of the Sydney Opera House (although obviously the model would be transparent and not white!). A project in Melbourne-Australia addresses this terrible problem by designing new drinking water fountains.