So you've got Doctors without Borders and the Engineers without Borders and they are all doing mighty fine work. You also have the Graphic Designers without Borders and the Architects without Borders and though the architects might have the ugliest site I've ever seen they must be doing something great as well. The question that remains is where are the industrial designers without borders. Are they hidden behind the common product designer moniker. Nope... Not there. No organization seems to exist to provide industrial/product design solutions to parts of the world that cannot afford them. Or if they dot hey don't seem to have any web presence at all. I hope I can't find it because if I really doesn't exist it would be such a shame.
It's a shame and I hope that it is out there and because I believe industrial designs ability to apply creative solutions that work within a cultures own ability and desire to change rather than the more forceful technological or political solutions alone. This is because change is such an inherent part of design. In many ways it is a core part of what we do. We make change attractive. If we are good designers we can the useful change attractive. But regardless the basic element of industrial design exists. If design isn't involved in bringing about progress and change to make attractive and acceptable solutions then what kind of 'humanists' can we really claim to be?
By Nationless
Some other people that are doing some good Without Borders stuff
Builders without Borders
Reporters without Borders
Teachers without Borders
Words without Borders
Geeks without Borders (how odd ;) )
Artists without Borders
Lawyers without Borders
Sociologist without Borders
Clowns without Borders
Braille without Borders (which is frankly amazing)
Nursing Students without Borders
Mothers without Borders
Botanical Theraputic Plants for Real Medicine without Borders (i'm not making this up)
Diplomats without Borders
Women without Borders
Cultural Heritage without Borders
.... and yet not industrial designers without borders....makes me sad.... ; (
2 comments:
Why don't you start Industrial Designers w/o Borders?
I really should. But for the organization to be taken seriously i think perhaps some people with a lot more experience should partake in it.
One of the goals of the blog (at the moment - it's still trying to figure itself out) is to gather all kinds of information on this together.
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