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01.09.13: David Stairs
Journeying through the Sacred ProfaneDavid Stairs chronicles his trip through India.
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10.27.11: Courtney Drake & Deirdre Cerminaro with William Drenttel
Design and the Social Sector: An Annotated BibliographyThis bibiography surveys the literature of social design — the spectrum from design process and thinking to the zones of social innovation.
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03.28.11: Julie Lasky
Chandigarh on the BlockFurnishings designed for Corbusier's urban masterpiece are being sold at auction. How outraged should we be?
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08.26.10: Yale School of Management
SELCO: Product Design PhilosophyThis video of the SELCO innovation team talking about product development is a part of the SELCO case study, the first in a series of case studies on design and social enterprise funded by the Rockefeller Foundation through a grant to the Winterhouse Institute.
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08.26.10: Yale School of Management
SELCO: Founder Harish Hande on SELCO's FutureThis video of Harish Hande is a part of the SELCO case study, the first in a series of case studies on design and social enterprise funded by the Rockefeller Foundation through a grant to the Winterhouse Institute.
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08.23.10: Ernest Beck
SELCO: Case Study Synopsis & Teaching ObjectivesThis case study about SELCO, a solar energy company in India, provides an opportunity to examine the strategy of a business with a social purpose and a heavy reliance on innovative design.
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08.23.10: Ramsey Ford
What Social Entrepreneurship Can Teach Social DesignEssay on adapting principles of social entrepreneurship to social design.
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08.16.10: Ashish Nangia
The Town That Corbusier BuiltOn the conflict between architectural appreciation and security in Chandigarh, India.
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08.10.10: Ernest Beck
Ripple Effect UpdateUpdate on the Ripple Effect initiative launched by IDEO, Gates Foundation and Acumen Fund to distribute fresh water in the developing world. Originally published July 30, 2009.
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08.03.10: Ernest Beck
Bellagio Museum Symposium: AbstractIn April 2010, 22 participants met at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy to discuss the museum’s potential role in relation to design for social change. This is an abstract summary of the final report of their discussions.
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08.03.10: William Drenttel, Julie Lasky
Reasons Not to Be Pretty: Symposium on Design, Social Change and the “Museum”In April 2010, 22 designers, historians, curators, educators and journalists met at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy to discuss the museum’s potential role in relation to design for social change. This is a report on their conversation.
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06.28.10: Meena Kadri
India's Epic Head CountThe enormous task of conducting India's 2010 census is aided by a newly designed form.
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05.24.10: Ken Botnick and Ira Raja
The Subtle Technology of Indian ArtisanshipHow India's craftsmen offer lessons in design thinking.
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05.06.10: William Drenttel
Design for Change ContestKiran Bir Sethi is a designer, teacher, principal, advocate and social entrepreneur. Now her “Design for Change Contest,” a recent initiative that swept India in 2009, is expanding globally.
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02.23.10: Avinash Rajagopal
The Nano Effect on Urban IndiaReview of Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum exhibition of the Tata Nano, 2010.
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02.17.10: Jessica Helfand
Better Living Through ArtistrySEWA, a cooperative textile manufacturing company in Ahmedebad, India, is a network of self-employed women.
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02.08.10: Meena Kadri
Finding Innovation in Every CornerInterview with management expert Anil Gupta, who seeks to reduce poverty by finding, broadcasting and nurturing examples of innovation among India's poor.
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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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08.23.09: Michael Scharf
Rainfall Is Likely to OccurThe bourgeois quarters have their own hybrid neo-Tibeto-Hokkaido-Kashmiri-Brit architecture — tin-roof Tudors with peaks — yet "paddy" (i.e., rice) is still grown within the city limits, if in just a few spots.
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08.07.09: Julia Galef
Question BoxThe Question Box project puts the developing-world poor just a phone call away from an internet search.
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07.18.09: Ernest Beck
Ripple EffectIDEO launched Ripple Effect in India to help communities with the arduous process of transporting water.
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