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3D printing meets humanitarian design research: creative technologies in remote regions

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posted on 2016-01-01, 00:00 authored by Jennifer Loy, Peter Tatham, Ry Healey, Cassie Tapper
This chapter provides an introduction to the discourse informing humanitarian design research practice and a context for evaluating problem solving strategies in this area of research. Advances in the development of creative technologies, and in particular 3D printing, are stimulating innovations in approach and practice. This chapter is based on a design research project that uses advances in digital technologies to address the logistical challenges facing Oxfam's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) projects in East Africa, whilst simultaneously responding to current design theory in humanitarian design research. It takes into account people, process and technology in developing a response to the opportunities provided by creative technologies that offers a new approach to achieving an appropriate balance between paternalistic and participatory design research in this discipline. The field study informing the research took place in Nairobi in 2014/2015 and was principally supported by the Humanitarian Innovation Fund.

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Chapter number

3

Pagination

54-75

ISSN

2475-6814

eISSN

2475-6830

ISBN-13

9781522522904

ISBN-10

1522522905

Language

eng

Publication classification

B1.1 Book chapter

Copyright notice

2016, IGI Global

Extent

15

Editor/Contributor(s)

Connor A, Marks S

Publisher

IGI Global

Place of publication

Hershey, Pa.

Title of book

Creative technologies for multidisciplinary applications

Series

Advances in media, entertainment, and the arts (AMEA) book series

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