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Tutorial Questions: 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: Global Village Shelters, an emergency shelter that can last up to 18 month. No tools to assemble, gives people immediate shelter after a disaster. New lightweight materials are improving the speed and quality of emergency shelters being built. It gives the project stakeholders a emergency shelter after a natural disaster. Also, local construction techniques and materials are being used to lower the cost of building houses, this gives the stakeholders a home as soon as possible.

Health: Ceramic water filter, allows people to have clean water to drink, thus prevent them from major health problems. To provide health care to all stakeholders, the leaders are training local workshop to produce and sell the products to their communities. Also, some leaders share manufacturing information to local communities. The leaders are also constantly looking for ways to make medicine more affordable to everyone in the developing countries.

Water: Lifestraw, turns surface water into drinking water, helpful in preventing diseases such as typhoid, cholera, diarrhea. Designer have designed and implemented a variety of low cost micro irrigation tools to help farmers with their crop production and yields. This increase in crop yield and income have been proved the fastest way for poor people to get out of poverty. Over two million treadle pumps have also been installed in developing countries to help with farming.

Education: One labtop per child is giving children an opportunity to access and learn through the internet, it gives them education. Cheap and affordable technologies are being implemented in developing countries so people there can access the Internet, and learn through the internet. It is said that education empowers people and provide opportunities for social and economic benefit.

Energy: Solar dish kitchen, affordable and low cost for the kitchen.Low cost, simple technologies, and energy efficient products are providing poor countries energy. Solar lighting are being promoted by local communities, and local enterprises. Clean cooking fuels and efficient portable stoves are being provided in poor countries, so people do not have to spend time collecting firewood to cook.

Transport: Q-drum allows people to bring huge amount of water in a container without carrying it, it allows the people to roll the water back home. Saves a lot of time and energy compare to carrying it. Engineers, designers, and non-profit organizations are asking the manufactures to produce low cost improvement in transportation. They are asking to metal workers to retrofit bicycles. Working with manufactures in China and India to produce affordable cargo bikes in Africa, and also creating a low cost cooling system for water.

2. How does stakeholder analysis enable sustainable and socially responsible design? (1 paragraph)

Stakeholder analysis will enable the designers to decide which group of stakeholder's will be most affected by their designs. Knowing the group that will be affected by the designed the most, the designed than will create a design that will benefit the group the most.

3. List five characteristics of socially responsible product design. (List of 5 points)

Clean Efficient Environment friendly Low cost Helpful