Design 21: Social Design Network

Mahmoud Keshavarz is an industrial and interaction designer with a focus on interactive products, systems and services. He is an industrial design student in Iran in a BA program in Azad University of Tehran which works on his degree project which is about design a tourism information system for Parsa historical site in Iran now a days . Through 4 years that he has had academic and professional experience, he has found his vision that he calls it: "Design as a Humanist Tool". He has done many academic and professional projects in different fields like: interior design, industrial design, exhibition design, environmental design, design management, strategic design, packaging design and etc. with a focus on reducing poverty, violence, war and developing education, peace, safety, public knowledge, raising information usage in Iran society. He has written many papers for different journals, magazines and newspapers in Iran about contemporary design and social themes around it. One of his projects that can be introduced here is designing a group of eco-design objects for comfortable living. Now he works on his self-work projects which are in DESIGN field with focus on eco-design, universal design, sustainable design, interaction design, ethical design and every sociology phenomena that have impact on designs that people want to use and have them.