T H E . F U T U R E . O F . W A T E R
A collaborative research community focused the application of
design leadership + design thinking
B A C K G R O U N D
This local collaboration action research project to identify opportunities to improve peoples' behaviors around water is a response to recognition of a global crisis. Researchers in Indianapolis, Indiana USA rallied to a call for designers around the world to address issues of local needs. The initiative inspired by the INDEX: | AIGA Aspen Design Challenge grew out of discussions held during the January 2007 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
>>> go to Designing Water’s Future
“Designing Water’s Future is aimed at generating exceptionally creative and original design thinking to raise awareness of the emerging global water crisis—and to do so in ways that inspire people to act. Reaching beyond all boundaries, the initiative seeks to reframe how we think about water, how we manage it, how we save it. It will address the design problem of the crisis, redefining the outdated, cultural myths about water that have become obstacles to progress on one of the world’s gravest threats.”
design leadership + design thinking
Opportunity // How might we redesign the future of water
using a people centered design research process?
Context // Indianapolis, Indiana USA // Identifying the intersection
of stakeholders' interests
This local collaboration action research project to identify opportunities to improve peoples' behaviors around water is a response to recognition of a global crisis. Researchers in Indianapolis, Indiana USA rallied to a call for designers around the world to address issues of local needs. The initiative inspired by the INDEX: | AIGA Aspen Design Challenge grew out of discussions held during the January 2007 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
>>> go to Designing Water’s Future
“Designing Water’s Future is aimed at generating exceptionally creative and original design thinking to raise awareness of the emerging global water crisis—and to do so in ways that inspire people to act. Reaching beyond all boundaries, the initiative seeks to reframe how we think about water, how we manage it, how we save it. It will address the design problem of the crisis, redefining the outdated, cultural myths about water that have become obstacles to progress on one of the world’s gravest threats.”