Futurekind : Design by and for the People Hardback
by Robert Phillips
Hardback
Description
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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, with over 500 illustrations; 400 Illustrations, black and white; 500 Illustrations, color
- Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Publication Date:16/05/2019
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- ISBN:9780500519790
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, with over 500 illustrations; 400 Illustrations, black and white; 500 Illustrations, color
- Publisher:Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Publication Date:16/05/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780500519790
