When a blighted city needs transformation, it’s usually a bulldozer rather than a brush that does the work. Few years ago, Edi Rama, Tirana's mayor at the time, started in a creative way to paint the sad facades of the buildings built during communism.  But what did the two Dutch artists, ...

Today it is not so easy to find an innovative good way to organize a fundraising campaign,  50/50 Make or Break project has done it. The starting point is a question about how to support more than one idea, and the answer is a collaborative fundraising experiment, a collection of extraordinary ...

"We are what we do" is the slogan of Utilità Manifesta, an association of social promotion based in Terni - Umbria, composed of a group of graphic designers who are actively engaged since 2004 in raising awareness on social issues, and in promoting human rights through graphic and design projects. Their ...

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o73udN_Y3Z0&feature=player_embedded What if a book didn’t just talk about saving the world – but actually did it? End Malaria: purchasing this benevolent tome literally enables you to rescue people from a tragic fate. The book features essays, tips and insights on great work by 62 writers, visionaries and thinkers including Michael Bungay Stanier, Sir ...

  INDEGO AFRICA is an innovative non-profit social enterprise, the name stands for “independence, development, and governance”—three life-changing attributes that Indego Africa is helping instill in 250 Rwandan women in order to lift them and their families out of poverty. The business model is simple yet ground-breaking: partnership with cooperatives of women ...

  Design for the other 90%, the name is useful to explain the global situation: while the richest 10 percent of the world’s population enjoys the vast majority of consumer goods and services, 5.8 billion people  (or 90%)  struggle to gain access to the basic things they need: clean water, food, ...

Internet is the way to get people to see their clothes and listen to their messages. The recently launched web site IOU project is not the latest clothes brand but it is a bridge between Indian artisans and consumers. The head of the project is Kavita Parmar. She is "a fashion designer ...

In many parts of India, especially in rural areas, the tradition of stubborn preference for the male child is still dominant. Little girls are considered the worst gift from destiny. They grow up in a different system, they stop going to school very early to work at home. They are often sold ...

These are the Matrioskattive, coming from Dobrush, in Belarus, one of the most affected areas by Chernobyl disaster. The international Project Tizzi, started in 2005, brought them last month to the Salone del Mobile, to the Velvet space at the Fabbrica del Vapore. The project was developped by about sixty students of the Brera Academy, and was ...

Daniele Pario Perra is the author of the book "Low Cost Design", an analysis ranging from design to the sociology of the territory about the change in the use of objects and places through the actions of the inhabitants. The book is the result of an eight years research and more ...