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Year in Review 2010: Humanitarian Design Year in Review 2010: Humanitarian Design
During the past year, designers worked harder than ever to solve problems with a widespread impact, focusing their efforts on societal issues ranging from health to education. But since many designers were creating solutions in developing nations or r
January: In what we think might be a first for a designer, Emily Pilloton appears on The Colbert Report to promote her new humanitarian design book
February: At the 2010 TED conference, TED Prize winner and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver announces his wish to end childhood obe
March: Two months after a 7.0 earthquake devastates Haiti, Architecture for Humanity launches a Rebuilding Center to train and educate local architec
April: The Austin Center for Design, a new design school focused on teaching designers how to solve societal problems, launches its
May: The first international museum show to focus on humanitarian and socially-responsible design projects opens at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Why Desi
June: DesigNYC, a large-scale design initiative in New York City, mounts an exhibition to showcase the pro bono wor
July: Bruce Nussbaum ignites a firestorm when he writes an essay at Co.Design questioning whether designers working in developing cou
August: Elizabeth Scharpf, an entrepreneur with no design background, is named as a finalist<
September: Change Observer and Winterhouse publish the latest in a series of updates from the rela
October: An article in The New York Times Magazine follows up on our 2007 story on
November: Public Architecture's book The Power of Pro Bono goes on sale, highlighting five years of their humanitarian design ini
December: Data visualization and mapping firm Stamen roll out the super-beta version of Dotspotting, a new way to affix locati
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