by | Nov 3, 2010 | argentina, cooperatives, design, partners, technology
The first few days of our core team’s implementation visit have been incredibly busy, yet rewarding and so far successful. Having secured working keys to our apartment building and a guia (tiny book to help us navigate the labyrinthine Buenos Aires bus system)...
by efeinblatt | Jul 5, 2010 | argentina, cartoneros, design, engineering, partners
The online magazine, eGFI, a publication of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), has just published a story about our collaboration with RISD. Take a look. http://students.egfi-k12.org/waste-for-life-making-trash-useful/
by efeinblatt | May 13, 2010 | engineering, partners, technology
The UWA hotpress is not exactly in action yet – lacking the electrical work and some minor tweaking – but enough is there to see what changes Derek Goad has made to Darko’s original design. Take a look specifically at the counterweight that allows...
by efeinblatt | May 13, 2010 | argentina, partners
Responding to emergency needs in the wake of recent disasters in Haiti and Chile, Carlos Levinton and his group at the CEP (Centro Experimental para la Producción) have been developing architectural + social models that address the ecological and economic disruptions...
by efeinblatt | Apr 27, 2010 | engineering, partners, technology
In conjunction with a winter semester 2010 course being taught by Joshua Pearce at Queens University, MECH 425 – Engineering for Sustainable Development, senior Nate Preston is reviewing, evaluating, and illustrating the Kingston Hotpress design via a public...
by cbaillie | Apr 11, 2010 | partners
Brainstorming – What do we have? Where do we go? Our homework from last class was to get together in groups and brainstorm products. The following ideas emerged: bags, toilet seat covers, guitar picks, plastic Armstrong bracelet, book covers, floor mats, pencil...
by efeinblatt | Mar 24, 2010 | news, partners
Here are links to two recent articles from treehugger and ecouterre about our collaboration with RISD: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/03/cool-and-easy-to-make-recycled-plastic-bags-rain-boots.php...
by | Feb 8, 2010 | design, partners, technology
Students at RISD have done a significant amount of material investigation many of which are collected in a set on the RISD-Waste4Life Flickr site. And attached are recipes of some of the most salient experiments. RISD-W4L Recipes [flickr-gallery...
by teach12 | Nov 5, 2009 | cooperatives, lesotho, partners
Some members of our team in Lesotho, Australia, Italy, United States and Canada have been working to put together a proposal to the Global Environmental Facility Small Grants Program GEF-SGP administered by UNDP Lesotho. The project proposal is in the final stages and...
by efeinblatt | Sep 23, 2009 | featured, partners
The 2010 Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace Conference has been scheduled for August 4-6, 2010 at the Royal Society of Arts and Manufacture in London, UK. The conference will be co-hosted with the RSA Design and Society project. Please go to the ESJP website...
