Designfluence:Group490

A Coalition of Product Designers for the Other 90%

Not as designers alone, nor as firms or groups or even regions, can we design, develop and deliver all the products needed for the "Other 90%"-- those underserved, poor, developing, and emerging communities. It takes collaboration, cooperation and a global network of creatives to rise together to the challenge. What process will get us there? We can star ...learn more

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Sunday 22 Feb 09:

I'm listing organizations working in the general area of design/products for the other 90%. They are listed here: <http://designfluence.org/partners.html>. Please send me any information you might have to add to this list, and any other feedback on the Designfluence site, working on clarity for each page. Thanks.

Tuesday 3 Feb 09:

I'm interested in aggregating the wonderful products and projects that are appropriate to this work. Who/what do you know? I know groups who are working on products: D-REV, Project H, IDE, Songhai and others. I also met an IT engineer for Dreamworks who has an engine for cataloging that he's offered the source code for. But we would need some IT/websigner help to get it done. I would like to list things here, but primarily host this at Designfluence under Information as an interactive database.

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490 Purpose & Outcomes

"Good suggestion. To that end, I signed up with Meetup to manage a monthly meeting -- Group 490 -- for Bay Area people interested in the who/what/where/why of the Other 90%. Our first meet" ...more

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http://bx.businessweek.com/sustainable-design/

Collaborative filter created on BusinessWeek related to Sustainable Design.

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http://www.squidoo.com/sustainabilitylinks

This is a collection of sustainable design associations, organizations and resources. I'm interested in this topic (also known to some as Service Design/Social Design/ social entrepreneurship) both pr ...more

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