Robert Phillips
Futurekind: Design by and for the People
Futurekind: Design by and for the People
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New platforms, digital communication, and engaged online communities are enabling anyone to design products for social and environmental good. Social design can see primary school children learning to code, and open-source design is enabling us to re-make our world right now. This book showcases over sixty projects that have made a genuine difference to communities and lives around the world, presented through fascinating and life-affirming stories, diagrams, and photography.
\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 240 pages
\n Publication date: 16 May 2019
\n Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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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 use 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 help people 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.
\n Weight: 1136g\n
Dimension: 258 x 213 x 27 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780500519790\n \n
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