Featured Non-Profit

The Center for the Urban Environment

The Center for the Urban Environment

Community, Environment, Education

Dedicated to educating individuals about the built and natural environment

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Featured Member

Nathaniel Corum

Nathaniel Corum

Sausalito, United States

Designer (architecture)

Community Design Advocate.

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Featured Company

Hewlett Packard (HP)

Hewlett Packard (HP)

Community, Environment

Technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and institutions globally

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Features

The relevance of social design is gaining global momentum. Here’s a collection of thoughts and ideas from people both in and outside the network.

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    Green Pupils, Clean Cars

    Environment, Industrial Design

    Tomorrow’s car designers are deeply committed to changing the world.
    It's a question of how.

     
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    Project Leader

    Poverty, Industrial Design

    Meet the founder of Project H, a non-profit that wants the design industry to step up and make a difference.

     
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    Changing Course

    Education

    A New York design school fosters holistic green education through interdisciplinary instruction and community involvement.

     
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    Furniture Movers

    Environment, Industrial Design

    Ecosystems aims to support sustainability at each step of the design process, from sourcing to delivery.

     
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    In our exclusive interview, the economist Jeffrey Sachs shares how designers can contribute to the global goal of ending extreme poverty.

     
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    Game for Change?

    Education, Audio/Visual Design

    Case Study A non-profit attempts to re-frame gaming as part of the solution of understanding other people, cultures, and situations.

     
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    Green Edge

    Environment, Industrial Design

    Case Study Skateboard designers team up with a biodegradable composite materials company to create an ecologically sound high performance board

     
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    Planting Peace

    Peace, Communication Design

    Case Study The Retired Weapons collective uses cake decorating and other playful mediums to sprout messages of peace

     
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    Transdisciplinary experience is at the heart of an innovative design program at California's Art Center College of Design

     
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    The Garden State

    Community, Environmental Design

    Futurefarmers founder Amy Franceschini cultivates her agri-mentality in a project designed to foster a community of food producers