Design+for+the+Other+90%+at+the+Cooper+Hewitt+Museum

 **Choose a country on the web site's map, and read through the description of the products designed for that country.** //**Products…**//  **List five characteristics of socially responsible product design. ** “Socially responsible design has five characteristics[...]  The products offered in New Zealand and Australia reflects the characteristics of socially responsible product design because… 
 * //Country//**//:// ** Australia **** & New Zealand **
 * **Aquastar Plus! And Flow Through** – a device that uses UV-C light to purify unsafe water
 * **Jaipur Foot and Below-Knee Prosthesis** – “… [a] low-cost, durable, waterproof, and can be used with or without shoes (1)”
 * **PermaNet** – a net that kills or repels mosquitoes and is effective for up to four years
 * **Solar Home Lighting System** – “…a wireless solar power system... (2)”
 * **Solar Aid** – “…a solar-powered hearing-aid battery recharger…(3)”
 * **Sugarcane Charcoal** – the usage of agricultural waste as a fuel in order to lower costs and to prevent deforestation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Water Storage System** – “… [a] low-cost, non-evaporative Water Storage System captures and stores monsoon rainwater, making water available for domestic and small plot micro-irrigation… (4)”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is base on an explicitly understood shared value system
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is based on information
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is the product of a participatory design process
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">It incorporates, periodic systematic design review
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">It incorporates periodic evaluation of the finished product (5)”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">It addresses the special needs of the people within the country, such as Solar Aid
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">It addresses the bare necessities needed by the people within the country, such as Aquastar Plus! and Flow Through
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">It addresses the health of the people within the country, such as PermaNet
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">It provides environmentally friendly options that will also aid the people within the country, such as Sugarcane Charcoal or Solar Home Lighting System
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">It provides affordable options that will generate a bit of comfort or ease in the lives of the people within the country

<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (1) http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/Design/jaipur-foot-and-below-knee-prosthesis (2) <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/Design/solar-home-lighting-system (3) http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/Design/solaraid (4) http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/Design/water-storage-system (5)  <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;"> http://books.google.ca/books?id=pXaUhhnO9PQC&pg=PA56&lpg=PA56&dq=five+characteristics+of+socially+responsible+product+design&source=web&ots=nuaHXMMqrL&sig=y_85RW9jwkUtt0CJu0tVmM82A50&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result