Futurekind

Design by and for the People

Robert Phillips, Yves Behar

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Thames & Hudson Ltd
16 May 2019

Product design

We have grown accustomed to two beliefs: the first, that only experts can be designers; the second, that our everyday activities are harming the natural world. Yet, with new platforms, digital communication and engaged online communities, the products we can now design - and truly need - can be made by anyone for social and environmental good. Social design can see that primary school children learn to code, and uses local information in off-grid locations to create global change. Open-source design is enabling us to re-make our world right now.

Structured into eight areas of application, from healthcare to education, this book showcases over sixty projects - not the kind you see in glossy magazines or online, but the ones that have made a genuine difference to communities and lives around the world. Rather than being client-driven, as commercial design often is, each project here is the result of designers who reach out, communities who get involved and the technologies that helping people to realize ideas together. From a playground-powered water pump in South Africa to a DIY budget cellphone, each of these groundbreaking projects is presented through fascinating and life-affirming stories, diagrams that reveal the mechanisms and motivations behind each design approach, and photography that celebrates the humanity of the endeavour.

By: Robert Phillips
Foreword by: Yves Behar
Imprint: Thames & Hudson Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 255mm, Width: 210mm,
Weight: 1.140kg
ISBN: 9780500519790
ISBN 10: 050051979X
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 16 May 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Rob Phillips is an award-winning product designer and a senior tutor on the Design Products Course at the Royal College of Art. His research into open design and citizen science has resulted in internationally taught methods at MIT, Goldsmiths, Cornell and the BBC.

Reviews for Futurekind: Design by and for the People

'Emphasises the importance of creativity and collaboration in driving design forward … These projects prove that we can all become active participants and change-makers, no matter the scale or budget' - Aesthetica