Tuesday 18 January 2011

WHEN TO STOP DESIGNING

essay: 
The role of development practitioner in areas of rapid change and scarce resources. 
(for Changing Places)


















FRADA
where high fashion
meets low finance


headlines: 




WEBEXPO talk - Adam Gebrian: 
"but Mr. Delanoe said no, it is very simple, it just needs two road closure signs, one at this end and the second at the other end of the road."  





TED talk – Cameron Sinclair: Open architecture network
"Doctors don’t have to bring their own building, and when they leave, the people cut down and eat the kenaf.”



TED talk – Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture
"Fashion designers started to innovate. (For example an introduction of a piece of titanium support to a high heal shape, which if made of cheap metal, breaks) to make their work harder to copy."




Viability versus aid
"I wont give them any money,.."
Margaret, Econominst, about microfinance

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