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Title:

Design for the other 90% / [essays by Cynthia E. Smith ... et al.].

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

SmithsonianCooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum :

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

144 p. : col. ill., col maps ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Industrial design--Social aspects
Industrial design--Environmental aspects.
Poor--Developing countries.
Social action--Developing countries.

Other Authors:

Smith, Cynthia E.
Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

Notes:

Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, May 4-Sept. 23, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 138).

Contents:

Foreword / Barbara J. Bloemink -- World designs to end poverty / Cynthia E. Smith -- Design for the other ninety percent / Paul R. Polak -- Fuel from the fields / Amy B. Smith -- Design to kickstart incomes / Martin J. Fisher -- One laptop per child : interview with Nicholas Negroponte and Yves Béhar -- Reliable renewable rural energy / H. Harish Hande -- Rolling water / Pieter Hendrikse -- Informal community solar kitchens / Sergio Palleroni -- Life line / Cheryl Heller -- Leapfrog, design strategies for global innovation / Sheila Kennedy -- Katrina furniture project / Sergio Palleroni -- Lessons from the marginalized : a manifesto for a truly public architecture / John Peterson -- Hearing for all / Modesta Nyirenda-Zabula -- Pot-in-pot cooler / Mohammed Bah Abba -- Exhibition objects -- Statistics / Andrea Lipps -- Selected references -- Selected organizations -- Acknowledgments -- Photographic credits -- Endnotes.

ISBN:

0910503974 (paper)
9780910503976 (paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)154789710

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)