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12.19.11: David Stairs
Demythologizing Design: Another View of "Design with the Other 90%: CITIES"David Stairs reviews "Design with other 90%:Cities"
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12.14.11: John Cary and William Drenttel
Give the Gift of Design this Holiday SeasonTax-deductible gifts for the holiday season: they feel good for the giver, meaningful for the recipient, and provide crucial support for hardworking nonprofits on the ground.
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09.26.11: John Thackara
5% Health: The Risk of Catabolic Collapse and Peak Fat in Modern Health SystemsThe writer, at Mayo Clinic's "Transform" conference, asks: Are high-end medical systems the best place to focus design's creative capacity?
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07.20.11: Jean W. Rosenthal
Project Masiluleke: Texting and Testing to Fight HIV/AIDS in South AfricaSummary of Project Masiluleke case study describing design process for fighting HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
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06.21.11: Ernest Beck
San+CoA pilot project developed for India provides santiation and electricity in a single venture.
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06.08.11: Robin Cembalest
Shrink RapMexican designer/artist Pedro Reyes opens a temporary sanatorium in Brooklyn.
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05.19.11: Ernest Beck
Project MwanaA new effort to diagnosis and treat infant HIV/AIDS in remote African regions.
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04.25.11: Phil Patton
Sustainable GoldPhil Patton on the conference “Gold: Substance, Symbol and Significance."
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02.25.11: Julie Lasky
Rock Girl BenchesRock Girl in Cape Town offers real and symbolic safe places for girls and women.
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12.09.10: Julie Lasky
Acumen Sexy Sanitation ChallengeAcumen Fund announces winners of its "Sexy Sanitation" challenge.
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10.18.10: The Editors
Sexy SanitationCompetition brief for Acumen Fund challenge to improve access to sanitation.
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09.25.10: Aspen Editors
Aspen Design Summit: Update 09.25.10Dateline Aspen. An on-going report on progress on the six projects developed at the Aspen Design Summit in November 2009.
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07.28.10: Ernest Beck
Camel Mobile Clinic UpdateUpdate on Art Center's Design Matters program, which prototypes a system for transporting medicine on camel back to remote communities in Kenya. Originally published July 18, 2009.
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07.28.10: Photo by Pieter Hugo
Permanent ErrorPhoto by Pieter Hugo of Ghana's Agbogbloshie slum.
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06.23.10: William Underhill
D-Rev Blue Star Jaundice TreatmentReport on Blue Star, D-Rev's affordable jaundice treatment for newborn babies in the developing world.
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03.22.10: Ernest Beck
Es TiempoReport on Es Tiempo, a campaign designed to encourage Hispanic women in Southern California to seek annual screenings for cervical cancer.
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12.18.09: Jay Parkinson
The Road to WellvilleRecommendations for designing a healthcare system around our nation's health needs — chronic care management, prevention and acute care treatment — not history, doctors and their profitability.
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12.08.09: Jonathan Schultz
EyeWriterReport on the EyeWriter software system, which allows a graffiti artist suffering from ALS to continue working merely by moving his eyes.
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11.30.09: Aspen Editors
Aspen Design Summit Report: UNICEF Menstruation ChallengeAt the Aspen Design Summit November 11–14, 2009, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute, the UNICEF Menstruation Challenge Project proposed an “eco-system” whereby sanitary pads became a linchpin for local economic growth, for educational programs about health and hygiene and for research into materials that could be adapted to other countries.
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11.24.09: Aspen Editors
Aspen Design Summit Report: Sustainable Food and Childhood ObesityAt the Aspen Design Summit November 11–14, 2009, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute, the Sustainable Food Project focused on accelerating the shift from a global, abstract food system to a regional, real food system via a robust portfolio of activities — including a grand challenge and a series of youth-engagement programs.
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11.23.09: Aspen Editors
Aspen Design Summit Report: CDC and Healthy AgingAt the Aspen Design Summit November 11–14, 2009, sponsored by AIGA and Winterhouse Institute, the CDC Healthy Aging Project began with the initial premise to enhance the ability of public health entities to determine whether adults 50 and over have received recommended preventive health services. The Project developed a “5 over 50” concept and brand name, and a new goal: to double the current number of people who are “up to date” with these preventive measures.
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11.02.09: Jonathan Schultz
Kick4LifeAIDS education mixes with soccer in plans for a new Lesotho stadium.
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10.29.09: Lindsay Stark
RenewalAid worker Lindsay Stark's portrait of the ritual purification of a child soldier in Sierra Leone.
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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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09.22.09: Andrea Codrington
Freeplay Fetal Heart Rate MonitorReport on the Freeplay fetal heart rate monitor, which won the 2009 INDEX award in the Body category.
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09.18.09: Ernest Beck
PeepoobagReport on Peepoobag, a new self-sanitizing, single-use, biodegradable container for human waste.
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09.09.09: Ernest Beck
Chulha StoveReport on the Chulha stove designed by Philips to reduce indoor air pollution in developing countries.
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09.09.09: Mark Dery
Paradise FouledReview of Crude, Joe Berlinger's documentary film about a lawsuit filed against Chevron by denizens of the Ecuadorean Amazon.
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08.21.09: Karrie Jacobs
A Thousand Points on Light: Part IIContinuation of debate between lighting designer Leni Schwendinger and Dark-Sky advocate Susan Harder about proper illumination of urban, suburban and rural environments.
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08.19.09: Karrie Jacobs
A Thousand Points on Light: Part IDebate between lighting designer Leni Schwendinger and Dark-Sky advocate Susan Harder about proper illumination of urban, suburban and rural environments.
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07.18.09: Ernest Beck
Camel Mobile ClinicArt Center's Design Matters program prototypes a system for transporting medicine on camel back to remote communities in Kenya.
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05.08.09: John Thackara
Doctors with iPhonesThe neighborhood doctor is back — and this time, he has an iPhone.
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