Titre et auteur:

Design for the other 90% / [essays by Cynthia E. Smith and others].

Édition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum : Distributed to the trade worldwide by Assouline Publishing, 2007.

Description:

144 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 28 cm

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

Résumé:

Design for the other 90% contains more than a dozen essays by leading experts in the field, accompanied by nearly 200 full-color illustrations, to highlight a wide variety of low-cost design innovations that address the basic challenges of survival and progess faced by the world's poor and marginalized.

ISBN:

9780910503976 (paper)
0910503974 (paper)

Sujet:

Sustainable design.
Industrial design Social aspects.
Industrial design Environmental aspects.
Poor Developing countries.
Social action Developing countries.
Écoconception.
Design Aspect social.
Design Aspect de l'environnement.
sustainable architecture.
Poor.
Social action.
Industriell formgivning sociala aspekter.
Industriell formgivning miljöaspekter.
U-länder samhällsaspekter.
Developing countries.

Classification/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition publications.
Interviews.

Vedettes secondaires:

Smith, Cynthia E.
Cooper-Hewitt Museum.

Design for the other 90 percent
Design for the other ninety percent

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 269787
Cote: BIB 202184
Statut: Disponible