Category: Report

Phil Patton|Report

Charging Double

Comparing two new electric-car chargers: Blink and WattStation

Constantin Boym|Report

Out of Sight: Qatari Workers' Housing

Constantin Boym reports on efforts to improve the living conditions of Qatar's migrant workers.

Adam Harrison Levy|Report

Sustainable Christmas Trees

From artificial firs to rented spruces, a report on alternatives to the chopped-down Xmas tree.

Edited by Julie Lasky|Report

New Contexts/New Practices: Six Views of the AIGA Design Educators Conference

Perspectives on the 2010 AIGA Design Educators' Conference, "New Contexts/New Practices."

Maria Popova|Report

CEOs for Cities Community Challenge: Robust Public Life

A CEOs for Cities conference held in Detroit in November 2010 sought to define and quantify the magnetic force of a metropolis.

Ernest Beck|Report

Bellagio Museum Symposium: Abstract

In April 2010, 22 participants met at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy to discuss the museum’s potential role in relation to design for social change. This is an abstract summary of the final report of …

William Drenttel|Report

Reasons Not to Be Pretty: Symposium on Design, Social Change and the “Museum”

In April 2010, 22 designers, historians, curators, educators and journalists met at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center in Italy to discuss the museum’s potential role in relation to design for social change. This is a …

Ernest Beck|Report

The World as Our Studio

Report on Worldstudio's hybrid business model for collaborating with for-profit and not-for-profit clients (while supporting a foundation).

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson|Report

New Visions of Home

Report on new housing models for the elderly.

Meena Kadri|Report

India's Epic Head Count

The enormous task of conducting India's 2010 census is aided by a newly designed form.

Ernest Beck|Report

Catapult Design: How to Run a Design Firm for Social Change

Catapult Design’s nonprofit model offers a new way to think about how designers can engage social innovation projects.

Zara Arshad|Report

How to Green an Embassy

Working at the British Embassy Beijing with zero budget means that even straightforward solutions, such as implementing a recycling system, pose a challenge.