January 2012
28 posts
Harvesting water in dry zones (as deserts)
Water is one of the most important isues in unprivilidege communities, harvesting can be a very dificult task specially in those areas without addecaude infrastrucutre to fprovide with the precious liquid.
but there is a very innovative and simple way to deg dome water with a small effort: the solar Still, is a simple way to get water collecting the humidity from air. you only need a plastic...
Ted Turner's 11 Rules to Live By for a Better...
Re-blogged: Ted Turner’s 11 Rules to Live By for a Better World
By MindBodyGreen
Richard Branson hung out with Ted Turner a few days ago and said they “got talking about his philosophy for living life to the full.” Enter’s Ted Turner’s 11 Rules to Live By.
That’s right. Ted shared some of his voluntary initiatives or ‘Rules to Live By’ with...
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Underprivileged Communities
To focus on finding and creating solutions for the Underprivileged communities using Product Service System application.
What are “UNDERPRIVILEGED COMMUNITIES”. In order to explain this let’s first look at the definition of these 2 words.
UNDERPRIVILEGED : According to the Free-dictionary website http://www.thefreedictionary.com/underprivileged
It...
Designing for the majority →
Ricardo Gomes
When you knock on the door the universe provides you with people that are already where you are going… perhaps to lead you, support you, challenge you etc…
This is true about Ricardo Gomez.
Before i started school at BTH about a year and half ago, I met Ricardo Department Chair, San Francisco State University at IDSA conference 2009 (I was there to accompany my fiance and I am...
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Team Dynamics
In the process of researching and writing the thesis with my good friend Carolina. I have heard advises from our fellow friends and colleagues who have already graduated, it all sums up to … “Work is not the problem… it’s the relationships that we bring to the process”
Other key advises
meeting agendas
have time to bullshit a little bit and talk to each other...
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Now that is a cool title and topic : "Monocultures... →
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“Give a man a fish and he won’t starve for a day. Teach a man how to fish...”
– http://www.teachamantofish.org.uk/
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Finding the title
After reading many articles out in the internet world on how to write a catchy title.
This one http://www.wikihow.com/Find-a-Catchy-Title-for-Your-Paper/Essay
seems pretty good.
Some of the points that were interesting are
The first one which is of course important “START TO WRITE THE PAPER”
Using quotation from the authors and to be inspired by it
Determine the audience.. who...
writing... in a good way?
how to write a catchy title? some useful tips to write our thesis
http://thesistown.com/writing/tips/thesis-title/
http://www.ehow.com/how_5719041_make-good-thesis-title.html
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“There are 3 billion new customers waiting for a revolution on how business...”
– http://pp.thecitizensmedia.com/pub/quote/paul-polak?id=1230
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“90 percent of the world’s designers focus on solutions for the richest 10...”
START. Self Expression.
This blog is going to focus on Carol and I (Sabine) thesis. It is not every day that you travel the world to find another industrial designer who is as passionate about designing for essential basic human needs as you are.
We also both like dancing now that is plus…
So we will explore ways designers have/can explored this topic. A way to introduce Product Service System which we have learnt...
