The Leveraged Freedom Chair. Image Credit: MIT Mobility Lab

At today’s lecture “Facing New Challenges Through Design” as part of Barcelona Design Week, I had the pleasure to come across some more projects by D-Lab, presented by Victor Grau Serrat from MIT in Boston. Grau gave an inspiring talk about how design and creativity can lift people out of poverty, mainly by co-designing and similar to Read the full story on TreeHugger
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