Evolving the Design Thinking Framework Towards Greater Equity
An interviewed Tania Anaissie, the Founder and CEO of the social justice design firm Beytna Design and the co-creator of a new form of design thinking called Liberatory Design.
Helping NGO's Become More Effective
Mattia Tamborini describes what he did in his Design Bootcamp project. He learned what NGO's lacked in competences and found out some of the challenges they faced, but ultimately helped them to become more effective. What he learned about NGO's will help all NGO's and associations to understand themselves better and make similar improvements.
Latrines and Hand Washing in Cambodia
Jeff Chapin discusses his work in Cambodia designing latrine and hand washing solutions for rural areas. He talks about how the Design Thinking process helped him come to solutions that delivered customer insights that helped them to arrive at solutions that met the customers actual needs.
Clean Team In-Home Toilets for Ghana’s Urban Poor
For the millions of Ghanaians without in-home toilets, there are few good options when it comes to our bodies' most basic functions. Working with Unilever and Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), IDEO.org developed Clean Team, a comprehensive sanitation system that delivers and maintains toilets in the homes of subscribers.
Reinventing Solar Energy Supply for Rural Africa
Being part of an ever-connected society, many people in the Global North can barely fathom that still more than 1.5 billion people live off the grid. Instead of simply plugging in, they use kerosene lanterns that only illuminate spots in their home, walk miles to charge their mobile phones, or run a diesel generator to power their business.
Why Design and Creativity can Change the World
Open Design Africa operates as a Social Impact company working on problems in small communities in Cape town using design thinking to understand the real issues that need to be addressed. An interesting podcast with Suné Stassen, leader of the group. Her insights working with Design Thinking in disadvantaged communities are insightful.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
Jerry Sternin, founder of the Positive Deviance Initiative and an associate professor at Tufts University until he died last year, was skilled at identifying what and critical of what he called outsider solutions to local problems. Sternin’s preferred approach to social innovation is an example of design thinking in action.
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