David Alan Foster
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About
I've been a designer for over 36 years in many facets of the craft: graphics, package, publications, industrial and product.
I'm currently developing Designfluence, a social-profit public benefit corporation dedicated to connecting designers and resources, "designers" being all creative people, "resources" being events, information, education and mentors. Designfluence is about "products influencing billions." What would a world of 4 billion designers look like?
Current projects are the Designers Give Bank™ for product design pro bono pledges, DesignJams for catalyzing local humanitarian product design, and Design Earth, the consulting group for sustainable products, systems and economies.
Looking for partners, affiliates and allies here on Wiser Earth and in the Digital Earth community.
I'm currently developing Designfluence, a social-profit public benefit corporation dedicated to connecting designers and resources, "designers" being all creative people, "resources" being events, information, education and mentors. Designfluence is about "products influencing billions." What would a world of 4 billion designers look like?
Current projects are the Designers Give Bank™ for product design pro bono pledges, DesignJams for catalyzing local humanitarian product design, and Design Earth, the consulting group for sustainable products, systems and economies.
Looking for partners, affiliates and allies here on Wiser Earth and in the Digital Earth community.
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I just read about Designfluence, and found the concept simple yet so potential. Wish I can join one of those DesignJams! Btw, have you heard of ecolect? Looks suitable for your "materials" part of the vision.
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Hi,
certainly I am not a designer. Maybe I can figure as a resource, or at least as a link to resources.
Presently 2.6 Billion people are lacking a decent toilet. We are thinking that composting toilets, or toilets allowing to collect urine and faeces separately (we call them urine diversion dehydration toilets or UDDTs) are the answer. Maybe designers can help us to make them more acceptable and cheap. Cheap is a crucial issue, because a large part of those needing a toilet live on less than 1 US$ per day. The WTO is waiting for a handsome design. The market would be huge.
Talking about sustainable water systems there are other problems at hand. We are wasting potable water for a lot of uses where such quality is not required. Treating water at home and reusing it could be an answer. Collecting faeces in a UDDT in a modern city could help us save a huge amount of flushing water, make the faeces usable if we turn them into compost and help us grow food in our cities. Designing a UDDT system for a modern appartment is still a pending challenge. Treating the remaining "greywater" (wastewater which is not flushing water) is another. Whirlpool made a start with a washing appliance that recycles its water. There are some acceptable greywater treatment systems on the market, but still everything looks rather makeshift. Best would be to integrate constructed wetlands into buildings, another design challenge. Such solutions would be needed for the total global population. We actually need a full paradigm change in our dealing with water and wastewater and what it contains.
I am looking forward to your suggestions.
Best regards,
Martin