Humanitarian design

Abby Mellick Lopes

Humanitarian design

Abby Mellick Lopes

School of Arts

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Humanitarian Design is an orthodoxy and movement originating in the West that responds to consumer-led design as the active promotion of "selfishness," by seeking to make "human need" the central priority of design. The focus of much humanitarian design is on the so-called developing world, even if this "world" is within a first world country. Since 2000, a number of humanitarian design initiatives and organizations have emerged that depend and build on the easy dissemination and sharing of information that comes with the internet, as well as the open-source model.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Design
Editors	Clive Edwards
Place of Publication	U.K.
Publisher	Bloomsbury Academic
Pages	166-168
ISBN (Print)	9781472521576
Publication status	Published - 2016

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