Lab+2

=__Design for the Other 90%__= ==1. Under each of the six categories, shelter, health, water, education, energy and transport, choose one project which interests you. For each category, describe how it is designed to alleviate poverty for the project's stakeholders. (6 categories x 1 paragraph = 6 paragraphs)==

__Shelter- Mad House Hunt__
This is a small prefabricated huts which serve as shelter for atlantas's homeless. They are built in stable sites not likely to be torn down, sometimes with permission form the owners/government. Each hut provides a lock for security, a loft for sleeping and storage and a wood-burning stove for cooking and eating. Although the huts are not intended for permanent residence, they serves as emergency shelters for homeless individuals and their family. Mad housers inc act, if necessary as an advocate for the homeless, to ensure that their moral and civil right are protected. They help develop skills and knowledge for constructing and rehabilitating housing and shelter.

__Health- AMD Personal Internet Communicator__
The AMD Personal Internet Communicator provides basic functionality and internet access at affordable prices. It provides an opportunity to learn and discover the internet and how it fuctions. It is set to enable affordable internet access and computing capability for 50% of the worlds population by year 2015. this will ensure that majority of the world will interact and benefit from each other. it opens up an enormous amount of possibilities for the less developed countries by providing them with contacts, know hows and a vast amount of information which will aid their development/growth.

__Water- Water Storage System__
This water storage system is a 10,000-liter plastic storage bag encolsed in a hand-dug pit. It is one-fifth the cost of existing ferrocement tanks. This non-evaporative system captures and stores rainwater in order to makes it availabe for domestic and small plot micro-irrigation during India's long dry season. It creates countless opportunities for the farmers india and allows them to continue planting/growing foods that will help the community and aids new business opportunities(import and export).

3. List five characteristics of socially responsible product design. (List of 5 points)
References http://www.madhousers.org/