- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Editions Assouline; large type edition edition (May 15, 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0910503974
- ISBN-13: 978-0910503976
Of the world's total population of 6.5 billion, nearly 5.8 billion
people, or 90%, have little or no access to most of the products and
services many of us take for granted; in fact, nearly half do not have
regular access to food, clean water, or shelter. Design for the Other 90%
explores more than 30 projects which reflect the growing movement among
designers, engineers, students and professors, architects, and social
entrepreneurs to design low-cost solutions for this other 90%. Through
partnerships both local and global, individuals and organizations around
the United States and throughout the world are inventing unique ways to
provide better access to food, water, shelter, health, education and
energy to those who most need them. Published in conjunction with a
major exhibition at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design
Museum, Design for the Other 90% contains more than a dozen
essays by leading experts in the field, accompanied by 200 full-color
illustrations, to highlight a wide variety of design innovations that
address the basic challenges of survival and progress faced by the
world's poor and marginalized.
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