emily pilloton: project h design... manifesto

Emily

"We need the design world (particularly industrial design) to stop talking big and start doing good; to put the problem-solving skills on which we pride ourselves to work on some of the biggest global issues; to design for health, poverty, homelessness, education, and more..." 

Read the complete manifesto: http://tr.im/projecthmanifesto

we can no longer ignore the big design problems

As I dig deeper and deeper into the idea of "designing bigger", I continue to run across issues dealing with health care. Though the looming policies and architectural challenges continue to mount, I really feel that the emergence of design as a holistic practice will help add some balance to the problems at hand. In this recent article by Sean Hughes, Senior Design Director - Philips Design Hong Kong; we can clearly see that our challenge as designers and design thinkers spans a much bigger space than local borders ....

The Best of Both Worlds by Sean Hughes
http://tr.im/bestofbothworlds