Design Revolution Road Show

The Design Revolution Road Show is a traveling exhibition and lecture series bringing "product design that empowers" to 20-something design universities and high schools across the nation in the Spring of 2010.

A Project H Design initiative, the road show will feature a biodiesel-powered truck and Airstream trailer exhibition of 40 humanitarian design solutions that have been showcased in the book Design Revolution: 100 Products that Empower People.

The programming will bring the evidence of and tools for design for social impact to the doorsteps of students, with the ultimate goal of enabling and empowering the next generation of creative problem-solvers to apply their skills to the world's most pressing problems and improve life on a global scale.

We believe design can change the world, and we're taking the show on the road.

The heart of the Design Revolution Road Show is the exhibition, which will be installed into the Airstream trailer. Forty products will be shown, each of which featured in the book Design Revolution, and representative on a great design solution for life improvement.

The products range from do-it-yourself appropriate technologies in the developing world like a recipe for clay water filters cooked over a cow-dung fire, to compact blood glucose monitors you can buy at your local pharmacy. Eight categories of products (Water, Well-Being, Energy, Education, Play, Food, Mobility, and Enterprise) represent a compendium of evidence that makes the case for design thinking that results in TOOLS that enable, rather than just more stuff.

View the Exhibition page to see all 40 products that we'll be showing!