Designing sustainable sanitation: Involving design in innovative, transdisciplinary research

Design Studies

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 298-317

  Lopes, Abby Mellick ^a   Fam, Dena ^b   Williams, Jennifer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Design education; Design research; Graphic design; Sustainable sanitation; User participation

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS; CORE COMPONENTS; DESIGN EDUCATION; DESIGN RESEARCH; DESIGN SCHOOLS; END USERS; GRAPHIC DESIGN; PILOT PROJECTS; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL PROCESS; SYSTEM INNOVATIONS; TARGET AUDIENCE; TRANSITION EXPERIMENT; TRANSITION MANAGEMENT; USER PARTICIPATION;

SANITATION;

DESIGN;

EID: 84859215206     PISSN: 0142694X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.destud.2011.08.005     Document Type: Article

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