22 year old Nora Vargas gives us some insights into local practices in her home land El Salvador and her later path through European design studies.
Peter Jones talks about an emergent new ethos, one that stands on the shoulders of many who have long argued for systemic change.
What is most needed to solve complex problems? I believe the answer is an individual's pure intention to do good. This is core to any design work. All design work is social design in the end.
It's been now four months since I first arrived in Buenos Aires to conduct fieldwork for my PhD in social design. A post about it all is long due, and I can only say that the main reason that kept me from writing was actually the overwhelming abundance of projects to write about. I reckon I am still in a process of digesting it all. My time and energy here mostly headed towards the project that hosts me as a collaborator and ... Read More
There’s no one better than the communications industry at telling people a message and getting them to act on it. But all too often, for one reason or another, its focus is on the work it does for its (paying) clients. As a group of young creatives, we found this situation incredibly frustrating. Three years ago we created Good 50x70 in an effort to redress the balance. Good 50x70 is a non-profit, independent, international social communication project that aims to provide charities ... Read More
It’s six o’clock in the afternoon. Inside the bus there are around 80 people, many of them standing. Apart from the city raining outside, the only unusual thing to be found inside the bus is a poster, sitting too small inside the frame. Carris *1 puts up these occasional posters to inform us, among other things, about the February 11th referendum *2. We all know about the referendum, we all watched the impassioned debates and the book launches on TV, we all ... Read More
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