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A Paradigm Shift: Empowering Uganda through Bio Sand Water Filteration Systems: An Introduction

Posted by: Amit Bapat

on November 6, 2009 at 12:15 pm

Let me introduce myself first. I’m a graduate student in Industrial Design from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA. I’ve been working on my thesis for quite some time and as the design gets closer to realization, i’m opening up the stage for some discussion, advice, comments or critiques. People who know others or have been in the field can any time shoot me an email or comment and I’ll be more than happy to get in touch with them.

My project on a very broad level deals with people who lie mostly below the poverty line or people living at the very bottom of the socio-economic pyramid of world population. These masses have been termed as the ‘other 90%’. A common understanding is that as designers, we have and continue to design products and services for the 10% of the world population who can afford these ‘new’ designs. For most, it is far fetched and too expensive. So lets start with what is designing for the other 90%?

Designing for the other 90%

The Cooper Hewitt Museum website defines as follows (http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/): Of the world’s total population of 6.5 billion, 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. Designing for the other 90% explores a ...

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