The poetry behind caregiving
Recently featured on FastCo Create, I read the great story of Caregifted, an organization that supports caregivers, people who spend decades, if not a lifetime looking after their relatives with some form of disability like autism or Alzheimer’s. These unexpected conditions require family members to re-structure their lives around their relatives’ special needs, often leaving…
Seeing like a homeless
The story of Mike Williams, recently published on NPR, narrates how a successful inventor became a homeless man in Sacramento. You can read the full story here. Once an inventor of medical technologies, Williams ran into a series of events that saw him lose his house, his car and end up in a dumpster….
SANA: a mobile health solution
In remote regions there is often a shortage of medical personnel prepared to meet basic needs and medical emergencies. SANA is an organization that is creating the first mobile health operating system using cell phones as an interface between marginalized communities and medical institutions. The use of cell phones is key, since it is quite…
Remembering Hassan Fathy
Some designers such as Karim Rashid, Hani Rashid (Asymptote), both born in Cairo, Karim Mekhtigian, Rami Makram (Alchemy), and Tarek Naga are some of the contemporary designers and architects from Egypt. At a critical moment in the history of the African country, after four days of protests against President Mubarak, I remember the architect Hassan…
Sustainability Actors Map
In recent months I´ve collected basic information on how organizations, companies, and public sector institutions are using design methods to solve sustainability problems in three broad categories (social, economic, and environmental impact). Doing a scan of 116 organizations and companies that are using design methods for business, social, or environmental innovation, some highlights became apparent: There…
Now House: A system to retrofit wartime houses to net-zero energy
Design as tool for home energy reduction and net-zero energy retrofits.
What if Greenland was Africa´s Water Fountain?
Design as conversation catalyst around Climate Change
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