The Design Revolution Road Show is in its third month on the road, and if you’re lucky enough to live in one of the midwestern places where it is coming, you’re in for a treat.
The road show consists of a great old Airstream trailer filled with real products that have been designed with humanitarian ends in mind. Among the products, my favorites were the ones designed for ‘bottom-of-the-pyramid’ customers. This isn’t design as in “Design Within Reach” or Michael Graves tea kettles, this is design for sustainability and improving lives.
And design as a process– as in “design thinking.”
If you’re looking for a good intro to design thinking or just some inspiration to bring it into your school, you should checkout the toolkit on their site. Download the toolkit here.
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- Looking through PRL
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- Getting close…
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- The back of the Design Revolution Road Show’s Airstream trailer, aka traveling exhibit
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- The back of the Airstream
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- The Jaipur Leg
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- Shoes to wear around land mines
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- A fuel efficient, affordable stove
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- Adjustable-prescription glasses. Just try them on, focus the knobs, and you’re set.
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- Learning math with natural objects
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- Braille learning blocks
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- Inside the Airstream, examining some of the designs
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- Getting a helpful explanation