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MIT D-Lab Design Portfolio 2020 Design Portfolio 2020 MISSION MIT D-Lab works with people around the world to develop and advance collaborative approaches and practical solutions to global poverty challenges. Cover image: Water filter prototyping session Mwana Hamisis and the hand-operated palm with local women in Bageshwar district, oil extractor, developed at a D-Lab Creative Uttarakhand, India. Capacity Building training, Tanzania, 2014 In 2002, D-Lab founder Amy Smith offered a course at MIT D-Lab approaches international development with a design HISTORY called “The Haiti Class.” She sought to apply engineering and ABOUT mindset, as is reflected in our guiding principles: design principles to the complex issues faced by people living • Use inclusive practices when designing in poverty. FOR people living in poverty That first course embodied the values of technical expertise • Engage in effective co-creation when designing and a commitment to deep and respectful collaborations with WITH people living in poverty people living in poverty, which D-Lab continues to hold at the • Build confidence and capacity to promote design center of its work today. BY people living in poverty In following these principles, D-Lab is re-thinking the role of Over the course of 16 years, D-Lab’s programs expanded to technology and design in development and reshaping the way include more than 20 interdisciplinary courses; six research that development is practiced. D-Lab has become a global groups working in collaboration with global partners; leader in participatory design and empowered thousands technology development for, with, and by people living in to address the daily challenges of poverty through design, poverty; and a suite of international programs, convenings, prototyping, production, and social entrepreneurship. trainings, and fellowships. D-Lab has received support from the Rockefeller Foundation, Community Jameel, United States Agency for International Development, and many others. D-Lab founder Amy Smith has received honors including a MacArthur Fellowship, Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People (2010), and Business Week’s World’s Most Influential Designers (2010). Ten Design Programs & Projects 2020 “I believe that it’s not just the Design Programs ❫ products of design that have an Creative Capacity Building ❫ International Development Design Summits impact in development, but that the ❫ Humanitarian Innovation design process itself is empowering. ❫ Scale-Ups Fellowship Products & Ventures When people create a solution Design Projects to a challenge they’re facing, it ❫ Okoa Project Motorcycle Ambulance transforms the way they think about ❫ Fuel from the Fields themselves.” ❫ SurgiBox Amy Smith ❫ Deep Sand Wheelchair Founding Director, MIT D-Lab ❫ Corn Sheller & Jig Saathi Pad - 100% ❫ Evaporative Cooling biodegradable sanitary napkin made from banana fiber “Learning the design process itself was an ‘aha’ moment. When you work in a team to think about something, make Creative a sketch, test it … you see yourselves Capacity get stronger together and have the Building courage to start something.” Euphrasia Njobvu Development Facilitator World Vision, Zambia D-Lab Creative Capacity Building workshop: learning design and tool use through corn sheller ex- cercise, Ghana, 2015 Creative Capacity Building LEARN THE DESIGN UNDERSTAND THE REFINE AND PRESENT SAMPLE CREATIVE CAPACITY BUILDING PROJECTS Promoting Local Innovation PROCESS PROBLEM Creative Capacity Building (CCB) is a D-Lab design program that invites people to use their creativity and local knowledge to develop solutions to challenges relevant to improving their own lives and communities. In building the CCB curriculum, D-Lab distilled key elements of the participatory design process into a hands-on training accessible to anyone, regardless of formal education, and is adaptable to a range of themes and settings. Past CCB projects have focused on improving farming or food processing efficiency; increasing access to energy, water, sanitation, or information; and creating a broad range of income-generating opportunities. CCB workshops often include the creation of technology prototypes. Newer trainings explore business creation and the application of the design process to other forms of problem-solving. PROJECTS CREATE SOLUTIONS BUILD AND TEST Left bottom Innovation Centers A low-cost, pedal-powered blender for making To support further refinement of CCB prototypes and juice, El Salvador. new project development, D-Lab works with local or- Center top ganizations to set up simple innovation centers and A brick maker that produces multiple bricks at a community tool libraries. These centers provide ongo- time, Uganda. ing mentorship for CCB participants and engage addi- Center bottom tional community members. A floating chicken coop that provides nutrients to a fish pond while using waste beverage bottles as Impact a building material, Philippines. A recent research study showed that CCB participants Above: developed prototypes that reduced labor by an average A mango picker that prevents damage to the fruit of 85 percent and increased income by 40 percent. In by guiding it through a fabric chute directly into a addition, there were significant changes in gender roles, bag, Uganda. and technology adoption rates were increased by more than ten-fold. “The design process was very helpful to me because I thought and thought about the resources available in my village and what I International can do with them to help with the Development community development.” Wiver Michelo Design Farmer & Entrepreneur Summits Zambia Menstrual Hygiene Design Team IDDS, Zambia, 2013 International Development 11 years Design Summits Conceived by D-Lab’s Amy Smith in 2007, Internation- 27 Design al Development Design Summits (IDDS) are hands-on design trainings that bring together a diverse group of Summits in 13 people to learn about the co-creative design process and to prototype low-cost technological solutions that can countries improve the livelihoods of people living in poverty. Summits emphasize the importance of co-creation, the idea that designing with communities is more powerful 120+ innovations than designing solutions for them. During a summit, participants work in teams with community members to in development learn the design cycle, identify problems and solutions, and test prototypes. Design summits can last two weeks or a month and typ- Network ically take place in a developing country. Some summits delve into a specific topic such as urban waste systems, of 1,000 while others address broad topics like agriculture, health, A team from IDDS D’kar (Botswana, 2015) working on the development of a fodder chopper prototype. Participants in IDDS New Coastal Territories (Colombia. 2018) fabricate a prototype for a project related to coastal and education and result in viable prototypes. livelihoods. innovators from After a summit is over, IDDS participants become a part of the growing International Development Innovation 86 countries Network. Some continue to work on projects from the summit, while others pursue their own local innovation projects in a wide range of fields. 7-member Impact and outcomes of the summits are closely moni- tored and evaluated. One study showed that two-thirds of respondents taught design and co-creation to others international in the 12 months after IDDS, over half were working on an innovation or venture, and over half applied collabo- steering rative design in their work. committee IDDS Aarogyam (Chennai, India, 2015): designing A porous cooking briquette developed at IDDS Sustain- An egg-carton design exercise at IDDS Zero Waste Team Spicy Hath addressing the needs of Lady Health health-focused interventions and technologies. able Homes (Sololá, Guatemala, 2017). (Cali, Colombia, 2015). Workers, IDDS Lahore (Pakistan, 2017). Humanitarian Innovation Refugee-led design “This gave me hope again. I believe I can make things and solve problems.” 17-year-old unaccompanied Afghani refugee, Athens, Greece D-Lab design and shop skills workshops for refugee youth at the Faros Horizon Center, Athens, Greece, 2019 Co-Creation Toolkit for Humanitarian Humanitarian Innovation Innovation Changing the paradigm of aid MIT D-Lab is piloting a novel approach to teaching The world is facing an unprecedented humanitarian graduate-level design and systems thinking courses that crisis with 65 million people displaced by conflict or aims to move graduate students in STEM fields — both persecution. Available resources are heavily strained at MIT and around the globe — toward a more collab- and organizations urgently need creative solutions to orative and inclusive approach to problem-solving that providing basic needs to this population. blends participation, systems thinking and design. The vast majority of humanitarian innovation initia- Practical Techniques for Water Quality tives are top-down, the clients are the humanitarian aid Testing and Purifications - Puerto Rico organizations and the “users” are the affected popula- Hurricane Maria forced hundreds of thousands of tion who have no direct line back to the suppliers. MIT people to collect water from streams or springs leaving D-Lab is pioneering a new approach to humanitarian them vulnerable to gastrointestinal disease. Oxfam and innovation, which is training refugees and displaced the Puerto Rico Science, Technology & Research Trust, persons in the design process and the use of tools, so in collaboration with University of Puerto Rico (UPR), that they
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