Social Good

Jonathan Schultz|Projects

Solo Kota Kita

Report on a design-oriented sysem for providing information about community resources in Indonesia as an aid for budgeting.

Photo by Taslima Akhter|Gallery

The Raveled Sleeve of Care

Photo by Taslima Akhter showing living conditions for Bangladesh's garment workers.

John Thackara|Essays

Leave Nothing But Footsteps

“Take nothing but memories” Kalack concludes “and leave nothing but footsteps”.

John Thackara|Essays

A Lesson from Cornwall

I've always loved lichen. I found this one in Cornwall’s Biodiversity Action Plan and chose it as a beautiful asset that already exists in the county.

Mark Lamster|Essays

Trabantimino

The idea: fuse a Trabant, that iconic East German junkmobile, with an El Camino, the classic American musclecar.

William Drenttel|Event-Education

Winterhouse First Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Participant Case Studies

Participants of Winterhouse Symposium on Design Education and Social Change, October 17-19, 2010, each contributed case studies of a class, project or program that bridges design and social innovation.

William Drenttel|Event-Education

Winterhouse First Symposium on Design Education and Social Change: Participants

This outlines the participants of the Winterhouse Symposium on Design Education and Social Change, which was held October 17-19 2011, in Falls Village CT.

James Lapides|Collections

Graphic Intervention

A slideshow containing images from Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010, now on view at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Photo by Andy Drewitt|Gallery

Forty Angles and a Mule

Photograph from series by Australian Andy Drewitt of donkey rescue facility.

Ernest Beck|Projects

Safe Agua

The first collaboration between Designmatters at Art Center College of Design and Chile’s Un Techo para mi País creates fresh ideas for water usage in a Santiago slum.

Alexandra Lange|Reviews

Uncommon Ground

Exhibition review of "Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement," Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Phil Patton|Essays

The Meek Shall Inherit the Market

Phil Patton writes in praise of frugal engineering, and not just for developing markets.