Sustainable Design for the Other 90%


	Sustainable Design for the Other 90%

245WWhrd

8-2-2009 4:30 PM

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245WWhrd says:

This reminds me of Shelter By Shelter Publications, Lloyd Kahn, Bob Easton

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e54c3cbd-1dcc-46d3-8c4f-e82a8ea9b35b/3A3B8B15-50C0-408E-BD39-303D5DF0D068/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://theschooloflife.typepad.com/the_school_of_life/2009/06/alice-rawsthorn-on-good-design.html" href="http://theschooloflife.typepad.com/the_school_of_life/2009/06/alice-rawsthorn-on-good-design.html" style="font-size: 11px;">theschooloflife.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://theschooloflife.typepad.com/the_school_of_life/2009/06/alice-rawsthorn-on-good-design.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/theschooloflife.typepad.com/img/EF219D57-450D-458A-BD58-BAB6E9C44DDD" alt="Architecture-for-humanity2" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://theschooloflife.typepad.com/the_school_of_life/2009/06/alice-rawsthorn-on-good-design.html">whenever we read, or talk, about design, it’s invariably about something that’s intended to be sold to one of the privileged minority – the richest 10%.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://theschooloflife.typepad.com/the_school_of_life/2009/06/alice-rawsthorn-on-good-design.html"><FONT face="Helvetica">More and more designers, mostly young ones, are addressing that need by designing everything from emergency housing, water purification devices, cheap forms of transport, educational resources, to new business initiatives for “the other 90%”. They are also tackling the problems of mature economies like our’s by working in collaboration with other disciplines such as anthropology, economics, ethnography, psychology and the social sciences to develop new solutions to acute social problems in areas like crime, education, healthcare, housing, joblessness and ageing.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://theschooloflife.typepad.com/the_school_of_life/2009/06/alice-rawsthorn-on-good-design.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/theschooloflife.typepad.com/img/B6E3F45F-0F9A-47F6-A34D-BE13010F6BA1" alt="Design_for_the_other_90_413_image2" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://theschooloflife.typepad.com/the_school_of_life/2009/06/alice-rawsthorn-on-good-design.html">they must focus on the needs of the under-privileged 90%. If they succeed, we will have a new definition of “good design” – one that has less to do with chairs, and more with the aspects of design that really matter.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3A3B8B15-50C0-408E-BD39-303D5DF0D068/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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