Design_Lab

26/04/2015

I hope all our friends in Nepal and their near and dear ones are safe and not much affected by the earthquake. We are with you in this tragedy and will be praying for you.

08/10/2014

DesignLab Orissa ProjectBook is ready and published!http://designlab.ee/DESIGN_LAB-ORISSA_project-book.pdf

22/09/2014

IDEO.ORG has published a new version of the Design Kit - it includes mindsets, methods and case studies and looks pretty cool and handy to use. Check it out! - http://www.designkit.org

Design Kit is IDEO.org's platform to learn human-centered design, a creative approach to solving the world's most difficult problems.

15/08/2014

Its a week of travel for DesignLAB - tomorrow (16.08) we can be found at Arvamusfestival - the wonderful Festival of Opinion Culture! - in Paide, Estonia. If you happen to be around, come and check us out near the Social Innovation stage! See you!

12/08/2014

DesignLAB is today in Jõhvi, Estonia to be part of the youth day celebrations - talking about the project, asking young people in Jõhvi what makes them happy and offering a taste of India in the form of good old sweet lime soda

05/08/2014

Happening now: Youth workers in Estonia learning the design process and mapping the challenges of youth at risk. Updates to come!

16/07/2014

Two participants of the DesignLAB Orissa workshop - Katrine and Anne - have been working on creating design proposals and a new settlement strategy for the urban migrants in Bhubaneshwar. They developed it as part of their Urban Design degree at Aalborg University. Wouldn't it be wonderful to see the unused spaces in the heart of Bhubaneshwar turn into something like this?

Anne Møller and Katrine Hoé, two DesignLAB Orissa participants from Denmark, have used the research and insights gathered during the workshop in India to develop solutions for transforming the abandoned and leftover spaces into safe low-income living areas in the city of Bhubaneswar. This resulted i…

25/06/2014

DesignLAB short movie is ready! Enjoy the 12 minutes that capture our experience, process and results of the 2.5 weeks long workshop in Bhubaneshwar, India in February, 2014!

Film & Edit: Toomas Järvet Special thanks to Theresia Torenholt for allowing to use the personal notebook in the film Music: "Spanish Summer" by Audionautix.com

05/06/2014

Simple act of washing hands can save lives, as this Lifebuoy video communicates. One of the solutions developed at DesignLAB Orissa also focuses on just that - Handwash with a Smile! Simple enough to build yourself from a plastic bottle, a small ball and a few details from hardware store.
http://designlab.ee/solution-6-handwash-with-a-smile/

09/05/2014

Last Sunday kids in Saliasahi slum in Bhubaneswar made creaTables, the one-piece cardboard furniture developed during the DesignLAB Orissa workshop. The workshop was run by Anvesh and Bakul volunteers. Read more about how the kids responded to the design from designlab.ee website

Another prototype from the DesignLAB Orissa workshop, the creaTable was tested on 4th of May in Saliasahi slum, Bhubaneswar, India. Around 50 kids gathered for the workshop. Among other activities with the children, Do It Yourself creaTable was a brand new and exciting one for them, a chance to buil…

07/05/2014

Prototypes developed during the DesignLAB Orissa workshop are tested further in the slums of Bhubaneswar. Read one of the participant's, Anuja Mishra 's reflections on the experience!

The International Day of Service on May 4, 2014 proved to be a perfect day for the field testing of one of the prototypes developed during the DesignLAB Orissa, the Learning Through Storytelling pyramid

23/04/2014

Design_Lab partners from Nepal are introducing design process to their colleagues at CHILDREN-Nepal! We hope to hear some news soon about how they start a small design revolution in Nepal!