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Faculty member Danny Alexander describes himself as a product designer who talks clients out of making products, and will tell you that his career is in the toilet, which is true if you look at the impact he’s had in designing sanitation systems for underserved communities.
Can Schools Teach Designers How to Solve the World's Problems? - Design - GOOD
When the first students arrive next year for the School of Visual Arts’ new MFA program in Design for Social Innovation , they won’t find themselves in any old classroom. As befits a program that encourages students to deploy design to improve society and the environment, SVA is investing in retrofitting one of its existing buildings in Manhattan into a LEED-certified learning space that features a playroom “where action, play and creativity reign” and an auditorium “wired to hear from and be heard by the world,” says Cheryl Heller, chairperson of the new department. "We want it to be a window into the world instead of a place in academia," she adds.What makes the city worth living in? How can we encourage and preserve the positive qualities of the city?
Urban Omnibus » Save the Dates: Festival of Ideas for the New City
In order to raise awareness for global warming and its big potential consequences (and to promote itself as the first carbon neutral bank in the world), HSBC asked the Mumbai office of advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather to come up with a campaign in public space that addresses the danger of flooding. The ad men glued an aerial photo of a city’s skyscrapers to the base of a swimming pool, creating an effect of a submerged cityscape.
Swimming Above A Submerged City — The Pop-Up City
The Salvadori Center uses the built environment – buildings, bridges, skyscrapers, etc. – to help students understand math and science concepts.
Salvadori Center | Education and the Built Environment
UrbanPlan
UrbanPlan UrbanPlan is an exciting educational initiative of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) developed in partnership with the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics (FCREUE) at the University of California at Berkeley and a team of high school economics teachers. The Mission
Local Projects
“The localism inherent in Give a Minute makes sense for the times. Weary of the national conversation, overwhelmed by the global ones, people are turning inward to their own communities...” – The New York Times , November 25, 2010
Local Projects
In Times Square for the entire month of February, BIG ♥ NYC pulses with glowing light in a grove of glass rods. A single person can activate the beating heart, but joining hands with others will make the heart beat even faster. Click here to read more.
At Yoxi, we search for amazing people who work hard to change the world, and we connect them to new opportunities by telling their stories in the most creative, compelling ways.
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I recently spent the better part of five days sitting on a cinderblock in the courtyard of Museo Experimental el Eco , listening to various creative people, mostly from Mexico, talk about their work.
Urban Omnibus » Postópolis: Urban Portraiture
Nomination Brief
Bustler: Design You Like You Give a Damn 2 Nomination Process
Curry Stone Design Prize Announces 2010 Finalists for Emerging Humanitarian Innovation Feminine hygiene products made from locally sourced banana leaf fiber in Rwanda; bicycle-powered agricultural machines in Guatemala; and “diagonal” inner city public housing in Chile are the three finalists for the 2010 Curry Stone Design Prize . The winner will be announced Oct. 13, 2010 at Google’s headquarters in New York City during National Design Week.
Bustler: Curry Stone Design Prize Announces 2010 Finalists for Emerging Humanitarian Innovation
Challenge Brief
How might we increase the availability of affordable learning tools & services for students in the developing world?
Worldchanging Interview: Shawn Frayne Adele Peters interviews Shawn Frayne, president of Honolulu- and Hong Kong-based Humdinger Wind Energy, and a prolific inventor and innovator whose work has been inspired by the need for resourceful problem-solving in the world's most vulnerable regions...