Hello,
here are also some links to interesting/related projects:
- Development by Design
http://www.thinkcycle.org/dyd02/
2nd International Conference on Open Collaborative Design
took place in India last year. Also the Thinkcycle innitiative is worth to check
- Colombian Crafts Design Program
http://www.artesaniasdecolombia.com.co
this government institution in Colombia has been running in the past 10 years a pioner proyect to involve and support with design the arts and crafts traditional communities of the country.
Good reading:
"Encountering Development. The making and unmaking of the third world"
Arturo Escobar
Princeton University Press January 1995
How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses?
Development Encounters: Sites of Participation and Knowledge
Pauline E. Peters (Editor)
Harvard University Press April 2000.
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Andrea Botero Cabrera
Medialaboratorio
University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH
ARKI research group
Hämeentie 135 C 00560 Hlk - Finland
http://mlab.uiah.fi/~abotero
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