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Category Archives: Design
Kibera Paper brings Meaning to the Holidays
I have given the cards made by Kibera Paper over the years … they are beautiful, well-designed, and socially and environmentally sustainable to boot! Sorry I wasn’t able to post this pre-xmas … but maybe next year people could order from them. Or, if you want, please send me an email and I can pick…
Of Graffiti, Youth and Space #3 – Favela Painting, the video
This is an update to the blogpost I did on Favela Painting, a graffiti program initiated in 2005 in the slums of Rio by artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn. Here is a video that brings more insight to the project from CNN. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet
Nairobi Reflection 3: High Touch/Low Tech
Community Mapping has always been quite an amazing tool – it localizes knowledge, draws on the “mappers” personal and community experiences, identifies interconnectedness – all this coming together and increasing social capital (if you are interested in the concepts of social capital read Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone; to better understand how it relates to mapping,…
"I work with my ears" Petrula Vrontikis, Designer.
Allan Chochinov is a New York-based design network and educator of design students. He spoke at a designers conference recently and gave a presentation titled: First Person Plural: The value of getting it from the horse’s mouth. He outlines the process that he teaches his students to take to “listen” to their clients so as…