Design for Change
Power Point
courtesy Design21
Design 21's design challenge winners, announced a few weeks ago, are delightfully innovative on the theme of design for social change.
My favorites:
From the "Heated issue" category, Jon Ardern's Power Point is a little wall plug-in that measures the amount of power being used and passing it to a database. "Over time," reads the description, "the product is intended to change patterns of power use by creating awareness of how much power individual appliance draws. Leading users to re-evaluate how they consume power."
From the "Child's Play" category, the Baendy, by Dejan Vukadinovic, is a snake-like music maker with series of nodes/notes, reminiscent of some of the activities in the recent Wild Music exhibit. When you bend it to mimic the shape of musical notes on a staff, it plays those tones in a loop, making a hands-on aural experience.
And another from the kid's category: The Yo'play by Barro de Gast. Check out these little creatures made from yogurt cups.
Yo' Play
courtesy Design21
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