Category: Projects

Jane Margolies|Projects

St. Augustine School Chicken Project

Report on the sustainability program at St. Augustine parochial school in the South Bronx.

Julie Lasky|Projects

Bigshot Camera

Report on a camera that children assemble to learn about science and engineering principles.

Jonathan Schultz|Projects

EyeWriter

Report on the EyeWriter software system, which allows a graffiti artist suffering from ALS to continue working merely by moving his eyes.

Julie Lasky|Projects

CO2 CUBES

Description of CO2 CUBES: Visualize a Tonne of Change, a multimedia installation created for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Conference of the Parties (COP-15), held in Copenhagen in December 2009.

Jennifer Ehrenberg|Projects

Chicago Welcomes You

On designing a resettlement process for Burmese immigrants in Chicago.

Jonathan Schultz|Projects

DESIS

Report on the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability project's latest home at New York's New School.

Jonathan Schultz|Projects

Kick4Life

AIDS education mixes with soccer in plans for a new Lesotho stadium.

Julie Lasky|Projects

88Bikes

Report on a foundation that distributes bicycles to children in the developing world.

Ernest Beck|Projects

Medellín, Colombia

Report on the city officials who turned around a notorious drugs-and-murder capital, winning the 2009 Curry Stone Design Prize for Transformative Public Works.

Bradford McKee|Projects

Float House

Report on a floating house designed by Morphosis and UCLA architecture students for the Make It Right Foundation,

Ernest Beck|Projects

Emergency Response Studio

Report on artist Paul Villinski's mobile studio, which he converted from a trailer of the type used by FEMA to house victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Jane Margolies|Projects

Skin

Report on maternity clothes made in Colombia with local labor. (No seamstresses under the age of 50 need apply.)