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05.16.13: Paul Polak
The SunWater Project: Advanced Solar Technology for Poor FarmersPaul Polak on SunWater: a radically affordable solar water pump that will transform small plot agriculture and help bring the world's poorest families out of poverty.
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03.23.11: Ernest Beck
Creative Support for JapanCreative responses to the crisis in Japan.
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01.20.10: Tony Whitfield
Prepared for HaitiTony Whitfield meditates on the assistance designers should give in Haiti following the earthquake, and in future catastrophes.
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01.18.10: Ernest Beck
State of ShelterRelief organizations still rely on the same basic options for emergency housing, but new ideas are taking hold.
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11.28.09: Aspen Editors
Aspen Design Summit Report: UNICEF and Early Childhood DevelopmentAt the Aspen Design Summit November 11–14, 2009, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute, the UNICEF Early Childhood Development Project proposed a new approach to emergency kits that would be more precisely tuned to young children’s intellectual and emotional needs, as well as outlined a basis for the next AIGA/INDEX: Aspen Design Challenge.
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11.20.09: Aspen Editors
Aspen Design Summit: Initial ReportInitial report on the 2009 Aspen Design Summit, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute.
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10.06.09: Bradford McKee
Float HouseReport on a floating house designed by Morphosis and UCLA architecture students for the Make It Right Foundation,
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10.05.09: Ernest Beck
Emergency Response StudioReport on artist Paul Villinski's mobile studio, which he converted from a trailer of the type used by FEMA to house victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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