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"I can't recommend John Cary's book, Design for Good, highly enough. His argument...is clear and revolutionary." Melinda GatesThats what we do really: we do miracles, said AnneMarie Nyiranshimiyimana, who learned masonry in helping to build the Butaro Hospital, a project designed for and with the people of Rwanda using local materials. This, and other projects designed with dignity, show the power of good design. Almost nothing influences the quality of our lives more than the design of our homes, our schools, our workplaces, and our public spaces. Yet, design is often taken for granted and people dont realize that they deserve better, or that better is even possible.In Design for Good, John Cary offers characterdriven, realworld stories about projects around the globe that offer morebuildings that are designed and created with and for the people who will use them. The book reveals a new understanding of the ways that design shapes our lives and gives professionals and interested citizens the tools to seek out and demand designs that dignify.For too long, design has been seen as a luxury, the province of the rich, not the poor. That can no longer be acceptable to those of us in the design fields, nor to those affected by design that doesnt consider human aspects.From the Mulan Primary School in Guangdong, China to Kalamazoo Colleges Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, the examples in the book show what is possible when design is a collaborative, dignified, empathic process. Building on a powerful foreword by philanthropist Melinda Gates, Cary draws from his own experience as well as dozens of interviews to show not only that everyone deserves good design, but how it can be achieved. This isnt just another book for and about designers. Its a book about the lives we lead, inextricably shaped by the spaces and places we inhabit.
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