Remote Design

The ‘Remote Design’ studio will take you from Kendall Square to Nairobi, Kenya for a NuVu fun experience, where we will collect data using mobile phones. We will brainstorm new ideas and design interventions for the 1,000,000 community members living in Kibera. We will network with folk from Kibera, Kenya and get to know more about their communities through asking and listening. We will learn about the current needs and resources of the community for developing better designs. The studio will engage you in accessing information that is useful to develop the most innovative ideas and
designs around the most basic and essentials needs. In the ‘Remote Design’ studio, you will learn how to investigate, reflect, and develop an open dialogue with community members in Kibera, Kenya. We will look at two current projects in Kibera, Kenya and observe their methodology and develop our own design for development toolbox.

Kenfield Griffith

PhD Candidate, MIT

Kenfield Griffith is a PhD candidate in the Design and Computation program at MIT. As part of the Design and Computation group, Kenfield’s interests predominantly focus on the dissemination of technologies as accessible platforms for promoting global development. The investigation is tailored towards the flexibility of technologies for cultural and geographical invention/innovation.

Some other interests include information sharing, global access, CAD/CAM coupling, design innovation, design computation, open source, open access, and data sharing for collaborative development methodologies.

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Kenfield Griffith

photo credit:
Lei Zhu, “sunflowerising@gmail.com”