Michael Bierut, Jessica Helfand|Audio
October 8, 2015
Basic Human Needs
On this episode, Jessica and Michael discuss how IKEA is designing shelters for refugees, and Facebook wants to provide refugees with Wi-Fi from flying drones. Michael observes:
Private companies are stepping into the breach to launch initiatives that I think fifty years ago, sixty years ago would’ve been thought to have been the purview of governments or international organizations.
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By Michael Bierut & Jessica Helfand
Jessica Helfand is an artist and writer based in New England. A former critic at Yale School of Art and one of the founding editors of Design Observer, she is the author of several books on visual culture including Self Reliance, Design: The Invention of Desire, and Face: A Visual Odyssey. jessicahelfand.com
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