Design, poverty, and sustainable development

Design Issues

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 54-65

  Thomas, Angharad ^a  

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DESIGN; SOCIAL IMPACT;

EID: 33750704017     PISSN: 07479360     EISSN: 15314790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/desi.2006.22.4.54     Document Type: Article

References (56)

1. The poorer nations of the world are given various labels: underdeveloped, less-developed, less-industrialized, developing, and the Third World. Like all labels, these mask huge differences between countries and within them; and, as Southeast Asia and China industrialize and develop at such a pace; they become increasingly misleading.
2. Poverty: the facts. The Child Poverty Action Group Website: http://www.cpag.org.uk (accessed July 27, 2004) has clear definitions.
3. The Chronic Poverty Report 2004-05(Manchester, UK: Chronic Poverty Research Centre, 2004) is a comprehensive source of information about the very poorest people in the world. Available online at http://www.chronicpoverty.org.
4. World Commission on Environment and Development, Our Common Future [The Bruntland Report] (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987) is considered to be the source of the concept of sustainable development
5. Ian Moffat, Nick Handley, and Mike Wilson, Measuring and Modeling Sustainable Development (Carnforth, UK: Parthenon Publishing, 2001) includes a useful discussion of the meanings of the term.
6. Design, in the context of this paper, is the design of products and things that are used in everyday life including tools and equipment, textiles, and other consumer products such as clothes.
7. For example, in the UK, the Natural Collection catalog and Website: http://www.naturalcollection.com;
8. or People Tree: http://www.peopletree.co.uk.
9. People Tree catalog (Winter 2004/2005), 17.
10. People Tree catalog, Ibid., 56.
11. People Tree catalog, Ibid., 68.
12. Angharad Thomas, "Zimbabwean Embroideries: An Income-generating Project for Mothers of Disabled Children" in Text For the Study of Textile Art Design, and History 25 (Winter, 1997): 12-15.
13. Personal communication from an aid worker in Zimbabwe, 1999.
14. Luiz Guimarães and Wagner Batista, "Industrial Design for Excluded Communities in the Northeastern Region of Brazil" (paper presented at the Conference of II Congresso Internacional de Pesquisa em Design, Rio de Janeiro, October 15-18, 2003).
15. Luiz Guimarães and Wagner Batista, "Industrial Design for Excluded Communities in the Northeastern Region of Brazil" Conference of II Congresso Internacional de Pesquisa em Design, 2003 Ibid.
16. Luiz Guimarães and Wagner Batista, "Industrial Design for Excluded Communities in the Northeastern Region of Brazil" Conference of II Congresso Internacional de Pesquisa em Design, 2003 Ibid.
17. Luiz Guimarães and Wagner Batista, "Education for Citizenship: Training Product Designers in Northeast Brazil" (paper presented at the Conference of International Council of Societies of Industrial Design, Hanover, Germany, 2003).
18. "Clockwork Radio" (video recording) (OED) (London: BBC, 1996 videocassette).
19. Website: http://www.windupradio.com/trevor.htm (accessed January 6, 2005).
20. Website: http://www.simplyfreeplay.co.uk (accessed July 14, 2004).
21. Website: http://www.explan.co.uk/solo/index.shtml (accessed January 6, 2005).
22. http://www.explan.co.uk/solo/index.shtml, Ibid.
23. http://www.explan.co.uk/solo/index.shtml, Ibid.
24. Recently renamed "Practical Action," http://www.itdg.org (accessed August 31, 2005).
25. Design without Borders, A. K. Haugeto and S. A. Knutslien, eds. (Oslo: Norsk Form, 2004).
26. Rob Aley, "Appropriate Technology and Sustainable Human Development" in Design without Borders, A. K. Haugeto and S. A. Knutslien, eds. (Oslo: Norsk Form, 2004), 51-60.
27. Rob Aley, Design without Borders, Ibid., 53.
28. Rob Aley, Design without Borders, Ibid., 54.
29. Rob Aley, Design without Borders, Ibid., 54.
30. Gavin Kitching, Development and Underdevelopment in Historical Perspective (London: Methuen, 1982), Chapter 1.
31. John Ballyn, independent consultant on craft production, Network of Development Researchers Gregynog Colloquium, University of Wales, argues that craft or artisan production can make a large contribution to manufacturing output (personal communication. May 2004).
32. Author's own experience 1994-1999 bringing goods from Zimbabwe to UK Fair Trade organizations.
33. Weya and Kusona Kwemadzimal women visited by author in Zimbabwe in late-1990s.
34. For example. Mountain Giftwrap from One Village: http://www.onevillage. org/cards-giftwrap.htm (accessed August 21, 2005).
35. Authors observations in Zimbabwe, 1996.
36. Luiz Guimarães and Wagner Batista, "Industrial Design for Excluded Communities in the Northeastern Region of Brazil" (paper presented at the Conference of II Congresso Internacional de Pesquisa em Design, Rio de Janeiro, October 15-18, 2003).
37. Luiz Guimarães and Wagner Batista, "Industrial Design for Excluded Communities in the Northeastern Region of Brazil" Conference of II Congresso Internacional de Pesquisa em Design, 2003 Ibid.
38. Luiz Guimarães and Wagner Batista, "Industrial Design for Excluded Communities in the Northeastern Region of Brazil" Conference of II Congresso Internacional de Pesquisa em Design, 2003 Ibid,
39. and QED video, "The Clockwork Radio."
40. Website: http://www.freeplayenergy.com/index.php?section=products (accessed August 31, 2005).
41. Website: http://www.freeplayfoundation.org (accessed November 8, 2005).
42. Information from company Website.
43. Personal communication, 2005.
44. Rob Aley, "Appropriate Technology and Sustainable Human Development" in Design without Borders, A. K. Haugeto and S. A. Knutslien, eds. (Oslo: Norsk Form, 2004), 53.
45. Rob Aley, Design without Borders, Ibid., 54.
46. Rob Aley, Design without Borders, Ibid., 57.
47. Coimbatore Krishna Prahalad, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through Profits (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing, 2005).
48. Julie Baugnet The Weaving of Design and Community" in Citizen Designer Perspectives on Design Responsibility, S. Heller and V. Vienne, eds. (New York: Allworth Press, 2003), 95-99.
49. John Cranmer and Yolanda Zappaterra, Conscientious Objectives: Designing for an Ethical Message(Mies. Switzerland: RotoVision, 2003).
50. The example of a birth control campaign for illiterate people in Bangladesh dating from the 1970s is presented by Studio Dunbar, Holland.
51. Fair Trade Foundation: http://www. fairtrade.org.uk (accessed August 31, 2005).
52. Typified by the London Festival of Design, September 2005: http://www.londondesignfestival.com (accessed August 31, 2005).
53. Website: http://www.thecardiffgroup.org.uk.
54. Website: http://www.thinkcycle.org/home (accessed November 8, 2005).
55. Website: http://www.norskfoorm.no (accessed August 31, 2005).
56. Website: http://www.thersa.org.uk/rsadesign/designdirections/index.html (accessed November 8, 2005).