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- Buoyant thinking for the future
Homes that float could provide a solution for often-flooded regions in Thailand Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Building amphibious homes in Thailand that are designed to weather the annual flooding.
- Design for the Real World
Human Ecology and Social Change Resource Type: Book Published: 1973 While two-thirds of the world's population lives in poverty, valuable human and natural resources are used to produce: fur-covered toilet seats, electronic nail polish dryers, diapers for parakeets, and mink-oil fertilizer for "the plant that has everything." Papanek discusses why the things you buy are expensive, badly designed, unsafe, and often don't work. He proposes alternative ways of thinking and alternative designs for safe, inexpensive, and desperately needed products.
- Designs on equality
City planning is a mechanism of discrimination - it mainly serves the able-bodied Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The idea of universal design is to stop creating public infrastructure that privileges one particular group, whether its car drivers, the able-bodied or those with paycheques, and start envisioning people with parallel but not identical mobility and sociability needs: children, teens, seniors, new immigrants, those on low incomes, parents, those with sports injuries or with physical and mental limitations, and those who care for any of the above.
- How Things Don't Work
Resource Type: Book Published: 1977 Pananek and Hennessey focus on appliances, tooks, and devices that are at the nub of modern living. They show how some of our most cherished possessions, ranging from simple household fixtures to sophisticated electronics, don't work, and challenge us to rethink the uses of technology to demand and create products that are useful, built to human scale, safe, ecologically sound, and inexpensive.
- Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD)
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Papanek, Victor
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Designer and educator who became a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures. (1927-1999).
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