Designs for the Poor

JUNE 28, 2007 THURSDAY AT 3PM CT

 


  A billion customers are waiting for a $2 pair of eyeglasses, a $10 solar lantern, and a $100 house. These designs for the poor are now being featured at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. This hour on Here on Earth: Radio Without Borders, Jean Feraca talks with the curator.

Guest
  • Paul Polak, founder and president of International Development Enterprises
  • Jack Keller, founder and CEO of Keller Bliesner Engineering and Professor Emeritus in the Biological and Irrigation Engineering Department at Utah State University
  • Amy Smith, engineer and inventor at MIT and recipient of a 2004 Macarthur Genius Grant
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