Toluu : Design Observer: Main Posts

The Language of Design ImperialismYesterday: Essay on the flawed language used to describe humanitarian design efforts and what it indicates.
Camel Mobile Clinic UpdateJuly 28: Update on Art Center's Design Matters program, which prototypes a system for transporting medicine on camel back to remote communities in Kenya. Originally published July 18, 2009.
Permanent ErrorJuly 28: Photo by Pieter Hugo of Ghana's Agbogbloshie slum.
Do You Copy? The Visuals of Ham RadioJuly 28: The QSL card offered proof, among ham radio operators, that contact had been made. The design of these cards was not an indication of good or bad, of sophisticated or naïve thinking, but was crafted from what was available at the time. Today, they provide physical evidence of early social networking – still at work.
Spatial Intelligence: New Futures for ArchitectureJuly 27: Can buildings makes us happy? On Places, William L. Fox explores this possibility in his review of Spatial Intelligence: New Futures for Architecture, by Leon van Schaik.