Louise Shaw talks ‘Design with the Other 90%: Cities’
The exhibition focuses on community solutions to public-health gaps in slums, including water access, sewage disposal, safe shelter, and the like
- © SDI
- Yerwada Slum Upgrade: Yerwada slum settlement community, SPARC Samudaya Nirman Sahayak, and Pune Municipal Corporation; with Prasanna Desai Architects and SDI affiliates: SPARC, National Slum Dwellers Federation, Mahila Milan. Mother Theresa Nagar, Sheela Salve Nagar, Wadar Wasti, Bhat Nagar, Netaji Nagar, and Yashwant Nagar, Yerwada, Pune, India.
The David J. Sencer CDC Museum is now showing Design with the Other 90%: Cities through May 24. The traveling exhibition arrives as the second episode of a two-part show exploring public-health design around the world. The first exhibition, Design for the Other 90%, visited the CDC in 2009 and explored a movement among designers aimed “to create low-cost solutions for everyday problems.” This spring, the exhibition focuses on community solutions to public-health gaps in slums, including water access, sewage disposal, safe shelter, and the like. There’s also a bicycle that charges a cell phone, a garden in a sack, and giant balloon for DIY aerial mapping.
In tomorrow’s issue, critic Lilly Lampe takes a look at the exhibition. CL also caught up with curator Louise Shaw to talk about the exhibition. See the conversation after the jump.