We are not habitually poor. We are optimistically so. The optimistic poor are people who will have the means to rise above poverty but are fighting through the process to get there.
Blog Action Day 2008
Almost half the world—over 3 billion people—live on less than $2.50 a day. On October 15, over 4,000 bloggers will be writing about why that is important.
Building sustainability through design
Sustainability is a hot topic. Partial credit goes to Al Gore’s documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina that preceded the movie. In the world of human-computer interaction, designers are now thinking deeply about the consequences of their creations. Last spring, IU School of Informatics professor Eli Blevis presented his research paper—”Sustainable Interaction Design: Invention & Disposal, Renewal & Reuse“— to the international CHI community in San Jose, California. This seminal work jump-started formal research about how design and sustainability are related.