That of the designer Ora Ito Apple is melting and is inspired by Snow White as that of Chantal Thomass, it is padded with chestnut cream and sour cherries. The result of the sale of these logs Christmas will be fully donated to the Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris - Hôpitaux de France directed by Bernadette Chirac. During this time, and since 2004, the agency Ferrara Design Inc.. and society Global Village Shelters develop and disseminate habitats prefabricated emergency and rehabilitation. They have already been established on the island of Grenada after Hurricane Emily in 2005 and more recently following the earthquake in Haiti.
These two examples are of a design, a design aimed to help: the design office. But what is the difference?
The log padded Chantal Thomas for the Hospitals Foundation of France
Emergency shelter of Global Village Shelter in Haiti
First, the design office, what is it?
It is specifically designed to meet human needs and not just the desires. This is one of esign with the design help: he saves it help, he encourages, facilitates and educates. The idea of creating a need to answer is not new, it is very old but it seems now necessary to appoint. Faced with a consumer society that we too used the superfluous, the design office actually takes effect.
There are, I think, different types of social design as shown in the two examples cited above. The only worthy to bear that name in my opinion is one that aims to develop in response to basic needs lists such as Virginia Henderson, American nurse who in 1960 published a theory on the needs of individuals and nursing. Although intended for use by health professionals, this list shows the basic needs of man. They are physiological, biological, psychological, social and spiritual.
For terms of using "emergency", the answers to these requirements apply mostly in poor countries and during natural disasters. In this context, Shigeru Ban offers for the first time his famous emergency shelter cardboard in 1995 in the aftermath of the earthquake e Kobe. The Rescue Baloon of Han Jaseok allows a person lost in a too large to report its position through a balloon filled with helium. Stephan Augustin for his designs the Watercone, A simple and economic turning salt water into drinking water by simple condensation. Note also the large number of organizations, associations and other groups advocating, developing or disseminating (through networks) as the design philanthropist Design for the Others 90%, Design 21 or Architecture for Humanity.
Balloon Rescue of Han Jaseok
The Watercone Stephan Augustin
The Watercone Stephan Augustin
Help, but also encourage, support and restore dignity. Closer to a commune of the Gers, accompanied by independent designers, has rehabilitated and refurbished a former police station emergency shelter and integration. For the African continent, to the competition Sanitary Facilities organ ized by Humanidesign are intended to enable the poor to their needs with dignity. There are also other projects in the medical and geriatric.
It is interesting to note that these designs often have a poor appearance. Is it the guarantee of a design or most of the thinking was done on purpose? I'm not saying that apparently worked is synonymous with unnecessary and that the public will suffer necessarily. But in many cases, the aesthetic is to attract, engage and catch the eye of a greater number of people. It is in a second or third time that the real action will be, thanks to funds raised or sensitized individuals. I call it design and charitable outreach. It is controversial criticism. Sometimes the events leading is the opposite of the cause he defends, Hermes, who joins forces with UNICEF for the rehabilitation of schools for disadvantaged children in Senegal. Here is the limit of design awareness, the approach benefits more when the company, the person who represents to the cause it supports. The "buzz" is an effective tool, no doubt, but we must be careful not to turn away from its primary function.
Le Carré Hermès for UNICEF
Less debatable, the site selling clothes Give-Me-Hope which pays 10% of the products of the partner associations. While the approach is honest, but beware of the next "good conscience". Like Societe Generale, which offers a Charity Card in which 5 cents is donated to a charity partner every time. Ultimate prize, the visual map to show its commitment.
Map charitable Societe Generale (Care Association)
At the top of the scandal, the reality TV show American Extreme Makeover that provides families with disabled members have a new home suited to their disability and without any condition. The program shows knowingly and without any shame of children dressed in equipment to help them walk, the father in a chair with one leg amputated and the mother telling a theater just how small it was abandoned by his parents. Not to mention the man, cul-de-bowl to control the excavator. Not a second I am questioning the authenticity of the difficulties facing these families. But the goal is not again to make the ratings before helping? A luxurious house at € 370 000 is not the most rational.
Extreme Makeover - Mc Cully family is offered a new home
The design office is not the sole purpose of the design object, space or messages. It is also the intangible, reflections, discussions and exchanges of knowledge. 3.0 The design presented by the body nextD (see diagram), said today that effective design is done by a multidisciplinary team which is added above the user himself. It will then respond fully to the request. It is this approach that fits the design office, design a reality as does the studio SafeAgua Chile Argentina. The studio brings together students from art school in California to Argentina in partnership with the Un Techo Para Mi Pais that designs also housing solutions in the poor country. Members of the team tell this experience that leads to design for dignity and better life in the Campamentos, Argentine slums.
3.0 The Design explained by the body nextD
The design office is not a utopia, no offense to some. Even if his actions are sometimes silent they are nonetheless effective. Is not it precisely the authentic, the real design, the one man needs to address now? As green design with which he goes along, the design responsibility is to the heart of our concerns with the depletion of fossil fuels, increasing world population and all the various upheavals known recently. In contrast to the buzz of design, design office.
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