The Rest Saving The West

Written by Mathew on April 13, 2010 — Leave a Comment

I have a special loathing for “Design for the Third World,” or pretty much any situation where people assume that just because they are well off, they know know something about what it takes to be well off. So I was delighted to see Dx1W, “Third World Designers solving First World Problems”.  Via Bruce Sterling (of course…)

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We’re speaking at PSU on January 25th

noon on a Wednesday. Room 296 in the Smith Memorial Student Union (near SW Broadway and SW Harrison). We will speak about the recent history of urban sanitation, and the dual crisises of resource management and aging infrastructure driving the development and deployment of alternatives.  The talk will focus on case studies of alternative systems in the US, China, Germany, Sweden, and Yemen.
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