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The Design For Development Society (DFD) is a Vancouver-based, registered Canadian charity that works with communities in need to address problems that are a consequence of and/or contributor to poverty.
Working with established and student designers, along with client communities, our aim is to design solutions that are sustainable and that support self-reliance.
DFD focuses on working with the end-user, utilizing local materials and means of manufacture, and on maximizing opportunities for skills transfer and education.
Examples of our current activities include:
Working with communities in southern Africa to build bicycle ambulances that allow rural communities to transport injured people to medical facilities quickly and safely.
Consulting with health professionals and village communities in India to provide designs for locally built adaptive aids and developmental toys.
Exploratory design work into issues such as low-tech plastic recycling and in-field oxygen delivery systems.
For more information visit our website at www.designfordevelopment.org
The Design For Development Society
Project Team Leads
An exploratory and eclectic maker/designer by nature, Chris believes that practicing effective design thinking requires a dialogue between an ethical approach, keen observation of daily human actions and responding to needs with innovative working solutions.
Prior to completing his Bachelors of Industrial Design, At Emily Carr University in 2008, Chris grew a small business as Principal/Owner of an interior design consultancy, in Vancouver, British Columbia. His background involves percussion design, custom furniture and millwork fabrication, interior design consulting and project management.
Currently Chris is working with the Design for Development Society as part of the Bambulance pilot project and innovations team. Inspired by the sustainable initiative, Chris hopes the Bambulance will serve as a learning tool and lasting contribution to building the capacities of collaborating Kenyan communities.
Prior to completing his Bachelors of Industrial Design, At Emily Carr University in 2008, Chris grew a small business as Principal/Owner of an interior design consultancy, in Vancouver, British Columbia. His background involves percussion design, custom furniture and millwork fabrication, interior design consulting and project management.
Currently Chris is working with the Design for Development Society as part of the Bambulance pilot project and innovations team. Inspired by the sustainable initiative, Chris hopes the Bambulance will serve as a learning tool and lasting contribution to building the capacities of collaborating Kenyan communities.
Chris Ryan
Industrial Designer
As a design intern on the Bambulance project, Philippa is excited to be involved in all stages of the design process – from first renderings to final manufacturing. She comes to this with a background in medical design, ergonomics, and sustainable design as a student at Emily Carr Institute. Her previous projects including a leg lifter for people with immobile limbs and a push-top pill bottle for people with limited dexterity. She is inspired by the challenges of designing in a development context and appreciates the opportunities for collaboration and capacity-building presented by the Bambulance project.
In addition to researching, designing & prototyping the Bambulance as part of her final year in Industrial Design at the Emily Carr Institute, Philippa will be directly involved in training our Kenyan partners to manufacture and distribute the Bambulance.
Philippa Mennell
Industrial Designer
