...an exhibition whose title underscores the fact that most designers focus their work on the desires and needs of the world’s richest 10 percent. Ninety percent of the 6.5 billion people living today don’t have access to the products and services that many of us take for granted.
Saving lives and fighting poverty in the developing world with design
By John Barrat
I also watched Cynthe E. Smith explain the leapfrog concept on tv.
In essence, its about helping these third world countries jump from the nineteenth century into the twenyfirst, without laying down the infrastructure that was required by the rest of the developed countries. How do we do that? By assisting them to adopt and implement modern (ie. mobile phones instead of land lines) and newly emerging technologies (i.e solar power).
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"third world countries"
...shame on you!
and how would you define "Modern"?
if you read about the designs, ie a drinking straw that filters water to become drinkable, and the photograph was of a woman drinking out of a murky pond...this is not modern.
when women still need to carry liters of water back to her home from a nearby well, this is not modern.
and it is not modern too to call "developing nations" as "third world" it has derogatory and racist implications.
what of a man carries water is that Modern ?
drinking from a murkky pond is just nasty, un modern folks use to drink clean water too.
you havent defined modern you just gave examples of what it could be. I dont think that is necessarily un modern for a woman or a man for that matter to carry water back home.
dont take me seriously am just busting your chops!
When it comes to design, the designer considers making the new design/product coexist/compatible with the current one rather than designing something based on an isolated/new environment.
As the developing countries are already backward, they don't have to follow the same footsteps of the developed countries, they can skip over several steps in between what they are already in to what the developed countries have reached already, in other words they rather need to implement the final cuts of that design.
An example, developing countries might not need to lay down extensive highways/motorways .. they rather should lay down a good rail or trim networks. Hence, will save money and reach modernity.
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