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Designers can't save the world, but even the smallest intervention could help improve the conditions faced by refugees, says Richard van der Laken
"In Holland, interior designer Joanne van Vreeswijk is helping a group of locals who act where the government doesn't succeed: finding proper houses for ex-refugees with residence status."
What Design Can Do has launched an international competition to help find solutions for refugees facing a wide variety of challenges
An organization called What Design Can Do is looking to solve the current refugee crisis, by calling to the design community to offer ideas on how to integrate refugees into society and help them gain the accommodations they need to live. It’s a worldwide competition that is open to anyone that has great ideas help solve this issue. This is similar to the social innovations OpenIDEO and Pie Lab that we talked about in our presentation, in that the community is involved in solving a global issue and are able to take on the role of diffuse designers, while the organization can function as expert designers. I think many people truly want to help the world and make a difference, but they’re not sure how as these global problems are so complex and it’s hard to know where to event start. I think projects like this are great as they make helping out much more accessible and you can see the direct impact of your ideas in what you do.
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A group of students from London's Royal College of Art have designed a prototype coat for refugees that transforms into a tent or sleeping bag.
Read the comments —they are really loaded.
Argument: Is Humanitarian Design the New Imperialism?
“Is the new humanitarian design coming out of the U.S. and Europe being perceived through post-colonial eyes as colonialism? Are the American and European designers presuming too much in their attempt to do good? The laptop itself is wonderful, with a beautiful shape and unique interface. Yet, OLPC failed in its initial plan to drop millions of inexpensive computers into villages, to hook kids directly to the Web and, in effect, get them to educate themselves. The Indian establishment locked OLPC out precisely because it perceived the effort as inappropriate technological colonialism that cut out those responsible for education in the country—policymakers, teachers, curriculum builders, parents. OLPC never got into China either. Or most of the large nations it had originally targeted.
But should we take a moment now that the movement is gathering speed to ask whether or not American and European designers are collaborating with the right partners, learning from the best local people, and being as sensitive as they might to the colonial legacies of the countries they want to do good in. Do designers need to better see themselves through the eyes of the local professional and business classes who believe their countries are rising as the U.S. and Europe fall and wonder who, in the end, has the right answers? Might Indian, Brazilian and African designers have important design lessons to teach Western designers?
And finally, one last question: why are we only doing humanitarian design in Asia and Africa and not Native American reservations or rural areas, where standards of education, water and health match the very worst overseas?” (Nussbaum, B. et al. 2010)
Collaboration for the sake of collaboration seems to be a trendy topic and recent buzzword. To see the West as being vastly superior in processes and ideas is severely underestimating the intelligence of the global community. All backgrounds and walks of life cultivate particular skill sets relative to survival, therefore producing ingenious ways of living, suitable to our individual designated environment. Obviously, someone living in a desolate area living on the land will have a lot to offer a designer, architect or engineer seeking to solve problems in those areas (using local materials, techniques and labour *sustainability).
Japanese studio Nendo has designed a minimal emergency kit in a slender tube for those affected by earthquakes
This emergency kit is a great idea. I love the way it is in a modular form and how it is easy to follow with the numbered components. The design seems so simple and user friendly. Its supposedly smaller than most emergency kets yet takes up less room. I think a large benefit of this kit is the way it is stored and its appearance. The canister means its not an eyesore so it can be left out, it can be easily carried and makes the kit more accessible.