Into the Fray – Humanitarian Design Imperialism?
Posted by the editors on Tuesday, 3 August 2010
The Hippo Water Roller
image: Hippo Water Roller Project
The design commentator (analyst? critic? observer?) Bruce Nussbaum (http://twitter.com/brucenussbaum) published a post, some time ago (7 July 2010, to be precise), to his blog on fastcodesign.com (a very interesting site), entitled “Is Humanitarian Design the New Imperialism?” which has served to bring to the fore a very deep and wide-ranging discussion of the motivations, implications, realisations, politics, etc. of humanitarian design, not to mention the language we use to discuss it (and design, in general). Whatever you may think on the subject, the discussion, you must agree (we hope), following Nussbaum’s post has offered numerous opportunities to read thoughtful, at times provocactive, and, very often, very interesting writing on the subject of humanitarian design.
Frankly, however, there is now so (very) much out there that we certainly find ourselves unable to offer you all the necessary links and so have chosen to offer you just a few interesting ones, knowing you’ll go on from there…
“Is Humanitarian Design the New Imperialism” by Bruce Nussbaum on fastcodesign.com
“The Language of Design Imperialism” by Maria Popova in Change Observer on Design Observer
Project H Design, humanitarian design
Nussbaum on Design blog by Bruce Nussbaum on businessweek.com
The Design Revolution Road Show, here.
Architecture for Humanity, here.
Also consult one of our previous (though quite recent) posts on humanitarian design, here.
Also, feel free (as long as you are able to remain polite and relatively brief) to share your comments on the subject with your fellow designalog readers…or….
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