The first exhibition in this series, Design for the Other 90%, sparked an international dialogue about how design could improve the lives of poor and marginalized communities around the world. Professional designers traditionally focused on 10% of the world’s population, but that has dramatically changed in this new millennium.
Design with the Other 90%: Cities, Exhibition, cities, urban, dialogue, international, marginalized, communities, problem solving, collaboration, cross-sector, affordable, solutions, emerging, technology, migration, informat settlements, Global Majority, participatory, local, innovative, knowledge sharing |
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In this growing area of design innovations are evident in numerous forms. Not limited to current technologies these designers sample from current, emerging and out-moded technologies to provide low cost effective solutions to benefit the poor and marginalized.
technology, low cost, affordable, solutions, poor, marginalized, cross-discipline, cross-sector, partnership, innovative, influence, developing countries, literacy, teams, virtual, Engineers, software developers, industrial designers, governments, models, Rockefeller Foundation, Innovation Initiative, efficiency, effectiveness, resources, crowdsourcing, InnoCentive, web-based, R&D, global, connectivity, link, Positive Deviance, user-generated, social, behavioral, approach, Ashoka, Changemakers, competition, Open, collaboration, collaborative, sponsors, post, transparent, online, access |
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