Come check out the exhibit at the id gallery. The exhibit will be up for the next couple of weeks… Good Times!

For more information on the exhibit and the It’s In The Bag competition, go to:
http://risdwasteforlife.wordpress.com

Please join us this Thursday evening at 6pm in the ID GALLERY. Guest speaker, PALI DACANAY (RISD alumna), will be giving a short talk about her design experiences abroad in Italy, Uganda, Kenya, and more. Pali will also hold a short design challenge. A challenge may include designing a toy for children who want to paint but do not have the ability to use their hands.

Dinner will be provided by RESPOND_DESIGN (another great reason to participate!)

Bring some pens/markers, your friends, and a hungry stomach.

WHO IS PALI DACANAY?
Pali Dacanay graduated from Industrial Design at RISD in 2008. Since then she has participated with international design projects, such as designing rehabilitation toys for children with disabilities in Turin, Italy, and improving the lives of slum dwellers in Johannesburg, South Africa. In her junior year at RISD, she co-led a team of college students to work in Uganda with former child soldiers, street kids and HIV/AID orphans. She returned back to Uganda for research and development to ask, “How can design help the war-effected and displaced in Northern Uganda?” She also traveled to Nairobi, Kenya for design research, focusing on the needs at the first Deaf and Blind Center of Nairobi.
Her dream is to see design respond to issues inside and outside the USA, implementing sustainable development, teaching people how to fish and look for actual “for- profit” markets that will increase job opportunity and expand the ability for designers to keep designing for the better, while getting paid for it. She loves watching Invisible Children.com videos, going to the beach, and enjoying the company of people.

Speaking on Social Design. Pali’s love for design and concern for society has brought her to Uganda and back, among other places. Pali shared her desire to connect and better harness the energy of the design community locally to work toward better solutions for energy, education, and healthcare globally. (http://www.core77.com)