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100 Products That Empower People
Metropolis Books
November 2009
On Sale: October 31, 2009
304 pages
ISBN: 1933045957
EAN: 9781933045955
Paperback
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Non-Fiction
In January of 2008, with a thousand dollars, a laptop and an
outsized conviction that design can change the world, rising
San Francisco-based product designer and activist Emily
Pilloton launched Project H Design, a radical non-profit
that supports, inspires and delivers life-improving
humanitarian product design. "We need to go beyond 'going
green' and to enlist a new generation of design activists,"
she wrote in an influential manifesto. "We need big hearts,
bigger business sense and the bravery to take action
now."Featuring more than 100 contemporary design products
and systems--safer baby bottles, a high-tech waterless
washing machine, low-cost prosthetics for landmine victims,
Braille-based Lego-style building blocks for blind children,
wheelchairs for rugged conditions, sugarcane charcoal,
universal composting systems, DIY soccer balls--that are as
fascinating as they are revolutionary, this exceptionally
smart, friendly and well-designed volume makes the case for
design as a tool to solve some of the world's biggest social
problems in beautiful, sustainable and engaging ways--for
global citizens in the developing world and in more
developed economies alike. Particularly at a time when the
weight of climate change, global poverty and population
growth are impossible to ignore, Pilloton challenges
designers to be changemakers instead of "stuff creators."
Urgent and optimistic, a compendium and a call to action,
Design Revolution is easily the most exciting design
publication to come out this year.Emily Pilloton is the
founder and Executive Director of Project H Design, a global
industrial design nonprofit with eight chapters around the
world. Trained in architecture at the University of
California, Berkeley, and product design at the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago, Pilloton started Project H in
2008 to provide a conduit and catalyst for need-based
product design that empowers individuals, communities and
economies. Current Project H initiatives include water
transport and filtration systems in South Africa and India;
an educational math playground built for elementary schools
in Uganda and North Carolina; a homeless-run design coop in
Los Angeles; and design concepts for foster care education
and therapy in Austin, Texas.Allan Chochinov is Editor in
Chief of Core77.com, and writes and lectures widely on the
impact of design on contemporary culture.
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