Design For the Majority Section
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Akshay SharmaAkshay Sharma, IDSA | |
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Raising the IDSA membership’s awareness of the other 90 percent of humans on this planet. What are their real needs? How can design help? This section provides a vehicle through which talented designers are able to learn how to understand the majority, their cultures and the people that live in them, but more importantly, use their creative skills to take action where appropriate.
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Mission StatementIn professional work most of |
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Free webinar by Steve...Join us for a webinar by Steve Katsaros, CEO and Founder of NOKERO.4:00 PM EST - Nov 5th, 2012Is it possible to have a... |
Pratt Design IncubatorDan Formosa of Smart Design argues that the other 90% exist right here at home in the USA in his presentation to the... |
HydrapackIn 2007, massive floods displaced some 60,000 farmers and fishermen in the Budalangi district of western Kenya.... |
Entrepreneurial designers...There is a great program that started at Northwestern University to apply the creative research-and-development skills... |
Empowering women through...Women contribute half of the world’s population by virtue of an accident of birth, perform two-thirds of the world’s... |
What if we built a car for...In other words, the Model T Ford of the twenty first century. Henry Ford set out to make a vehicle for the masses (in... |
The Global Village...Here is a great idea that is coming into reality from an engineering point of view. How about doing this from a design... |
D4M Webinar with Kara...What: In the second of the 2011 Design for the Majority Section Webinar Series, Kara Pecknold will share her... |
D4M Webinar: Humanitarian...What: Webinar with Khanjan Mehta is the Director of the Humanitarian Engineering and Social Entrepreneurship (HESE)... |
Project H's Emily...Designers today, from all parts of the world, are seeking more meaningful ways to use their design skills. One of the... |
Event: Can Design Save the...In June 2010, the Design for the Majority Interest Section in collaboration with the IDSA Northwestern Chapter hosted a... |
D4M Webinar: Collaborative...In Spring 2009 the Design for the Majority Interest Section hosted a webinar with Jason Morris of Western Washington... |
D4M Event: "Killer in...The Design for the Majority Interest Section hosted a special panel discussion at the ICSID/IDSA Connecting Conference... |
Webinar with Ken Botnick...
In January 2007, the Design for the Majority Interest Section hosted a webinar with Ken Botnick and Deb Johnson. Ken... |
Design for the Majority...The Design for the Majority Interest Section held a workshop at the 2006 IDSA Annual Conference in Austin, Texas. ... |
























































































