

This is an amazing competition with a twist. It is a call for artists, designers, doers, thinkers, makers, tinkerers and anyone out there born and living in a developing country to come up with ideas to help tackling problems of the first world.
The developing world is used to live and deal with social problems in a daily basis. Financial crisis, health and education challenges, social inequity form part of the DNA of countries such as Mexico, Brazil, Argentina or Malaysia and their problem-framing and problem-solving skills have a great potential to help developing solutions for those countries like the UK that are currently experiencing the effects of social crisis.
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"The distinction is between an idea of design that focuses on the user and their interactions with things, that serves firms and markets, and an idea of design that is about exchanging service for service. The first is rooted in the design professions that emerged to serve a production and consumption economy that emphasized value-in-exchange. The second – visible in emerging practices in design and the car-ecology examples – is shaped by enquiries into value-in-context.
User-centred design asks how can we design a better toaster. Designing for service explores what meaning and what value toast-making has."
Lucy Kimbell 2010
A report from RCA Advantage a new integrated marketing communications agency that brings together an experienced team of creative, marketing and planning experts. RCA provides creative and effective solutions to the marketing challenges posed by an ageing population