dc design week: design for disaster relief
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Presented by Erica Schlaikjer, Founder, Benevolent Media. October 15, 2012. Washington, D.C. "DC Design Week: Design for Disaster Relief," held in partnership with AIGA DC.TRANSCRIPT
Welcome!
Next Month
Design for Disaster Relief
Product
Graphic
Shelter
Software
Information Communication
Mobile
Telecommunications
Architecture
Multimedia Journalism
Technology
Caution!
Wan S. SophonpanichCommunity Architect, Openspace (Bangkok)
“Disastrous Design for Disaster”• unfamiliar technologies• too expensive• raise false expectations• don't follow established standards• inappropriate to local communities
Thoughts?
Response
Outsiders
With
Top-Down
Storytelling
Ideas
Recovery
Insiders
Against
Bottom-Up
Design
Action
vs.
Meet our Guests
ARCHITECTURE• Lindsay Brugger, Architecture for Humanity, D.C. Disaster Response
Project• Raed Jarrar, Architecture for Humanity, D.C. Disaster Response Project• Cooper Martin, Manager, Community Resilience, American Institute of
Architects
MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM• Joshua Cogan, Content Creator and Strategist• Jake Naughton, Multimedia Projects Coordinator, Pulitzer Center on Crisis
Reporting
TECHNOLOGY• Adele Waugaman, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative Fellow & Independent
Consultant
Share:
• Case Studies• Success Stories• Failure Stories• Requests for Collaboration