Social change

XVII.3 May + June 2010
Page: 52
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Solving the world’s problems through design


Authors:
Nadav Savio

"The only important thing about design is how it relates to people."—Victor Papanek Emily Pilloton wants to change the world one step at a time through the transformative power of design. And she expects you to help. Pilloton is an industrial designer who, fed up with the crass commercialism so often found in her discipline, set out to shift the way product designers think about what it is they do. She wants designers to move beyond a narrow focus on the products we make and embrace an important mission: to design with the goal of bettering the world. Design…




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