Milan Design Week started on April 8th and ended yesterday Sunday 13. There was two main groups of events: those taking place at the Fiera Milano and those taking place in different areas of the city. At the Fiera Milano, the Salone del Mobile, at his 53rd edition, registered approximately 357000 ...

(This post is part of the project: "The Social Impact of Milan Design Week 2013"). *** Freedom Room is a low cost essential housing module of 4 x 2,7 meters, co-designed and made inside a high security prison in Spoleto, Italy. The project is a collaboration between a group of the prison’s ...

  NO COMMENT - 2013 Image: Courtesy of storyofstuff.org

NO COMMENT - 2013 Image: Courtesy of urbanreforestation.com

As the energy bills continue to soar a clever solar lighting idea is diffusing across the slums of the Philippines. A 1.5 litre plastic bottle filled with purified water and three spoons of bleach and then fitted to a hole in the roof. The sun rays are curbed by the bottle. “Designed ...

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 ...

  I think it is never enough when we speak about behaviour change in manufacturing products. Resuming from my last post about Steelcase I would like to introduce one of their most interesting projects: The Think chair. In 2000 Steelcase was the first office furniture company to apply the Life Cycle thinking in the ...

Steelcase Inc. is a nearly 100 years old  brand that offers a comprehensive portfolio of workplace furnishings, products and services. Designing to achieve social, economic, and environmental sustainability. Steelcase was created by a few people with a strong commitment to integrity and doing the right thing for their customers, employees, ...

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 ...