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		<title>All Hail the Autorickshaw!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 16:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Indian Journal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Stairs Motorcycles are the primary means of personal transportation in Bangalore. Every intersection is clogged with dozens of bikes and scooters impatiently waiting to break away when the light turns green, and when it does&#8230; off they roar like a swarm of angry hornets! Autorickshaw stop, Yelahanka When I stop to consider public transit, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jugaad Formalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 09:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Stairs &#8220;The search for form demands an investigation into values and qualities that Indians hold important to a good life.&#8221; —Charles and Ray Eames, The India Report, 1958 The lota: universal, indispensable, praised by Charles Eames. An instance of Indian design so unique as to be eternally linked to the subcontinent. Scalable, stackable, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ThNx2ü&amp;GBY: Life &amp; Design in the Texting Capital of the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 08:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Xiao Mina In &#34;The Texting Culture of the Philippines,&#34; a recent article for Design Observer, I explored some of the design strategies centered around mobile phone culture in the Philippines. It&#8217;s a well-known fact to anyone who&#8217;s visited the country&#8211;with upwards of 600 text messages per month per user in 2010, the Philippines is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visit to a Coir Mill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Indian Journal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Stairs Febin standing by a pile of rope I just returned from a week in Kerala. On Monday morning April 2nd I was passing through Alleppey when I noticed a coir mill, or rope-making factory. Remembering that this was a rope-making region, I asked our driver Febin if we could stop at a mill. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When Altruism Goes Wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Altruism Memeplex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Stairs &#8220;Indeed, staying silent on explicit religious topics while oozing a Jesus-y pheromone has allowed Invisible Children to tap an entire spectrum of Christian charities, philanthropists, and celebrities, from the most liberal to the most conservative.&#8221; —Josh Kron, &#8220;Mission From God: The Upstart Christian Sect Driving Invisible Children and Changing Africa,&#8221; The Atlantic, April [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Houseboat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Indian Journal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[David Stairs &#8220;May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in still, dustgreen trees. Red bananas ripen. Jackfruits burst. Dissolute bluebottles hum vacuously in the fruity air. Then they stun themselves against clear windowpanes and die, fatly baffled in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death in India</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Stairs Gone, but not forgotten (image courtesy of Deepa Mohan) Although the idea of reincarnation may have arisen independently in several places, India is justly famous as the land that most fully embraced the concept. All of the major Indian religious traditions embrace some form of the idea. In Hinduism, the cycle of transmigration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lorry Land</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 05:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Stairs I thought I knew trucks. After all, growing up in America, land of monster 56&#8242; long behemoths, every boy wants to be a truck driver at some point. I vividly remember a trip along Interstate 80, the most intense truck route in the U.S., when there were so many trucks and seemingly only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Unbearable Messiness of Commons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sumandro “Commons are forms of direct access to social wealth; access that is not mediated by competitive market relations.” - Massimo De Angelis, The New Commons in Practice: Strategy, Process and Alternatives, Development, 2005, 48(2), 48-52 Men gathering cattle fodder, Yelahanka In the interview with The Ugly Indian published previously here, the explanation of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tolerable Censorship</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victor Margolin Two articles of significance appeared in my morning papers recently, one in The New York Times, a lengthy obituary for the courageous publisher Barney Rosset, and the other in the Business section of the Chicago Tribune, describing how Amazon has yanked 5,000 titles that belong to the Independent Publishers Group from its e-book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>540 rupees = $11.00</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 06:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Stairs I thought it was malaria. I had all the symptoms: headache, chills, fatigue, fever, sweats, dry cough. My first three weeks in country I&#8217;d been living near a swamp, and the incubation period seemed right. No matter that Bangalore is not in a malarious zone, my son was alarmed. We&#8217;d lived in Africa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brushin&#8217; Up B&#8217;galore</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Stairs &#8220;Indians do not have the same civic sense as, say, Scandinavians. The boundary of the space you keep clean is marked at the end of the space you call your own.&#8221; —from Maximum City by Suketu Mehta The Commons are a topic of concern to contemporary Indians. Whether talking about road safety or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Good Fences Make Good Neighbors?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 02:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Stairs Anantapura Road Demarcating property lines, that most European activity, has taken over the world. When I was a child in the ’50s, the adjoining backyards of my neighborhood were open. I remember running with my friends through the neighborhood like wild horses, viewing the world from an interior point of view unimaginable from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seltzer Machines and Juicers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victor Margolin Two of the major trends that have driven product design in the past twenty years are connectivity and sustainability. The desire to be in frequent if not constant communication with others has spawned a variety of devices from cell phones to almost lighter-than-air tablets and laptops. We seem to be heading toward a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Stairs Cement trucks parked along Doddaballapur Road Every environment has its signature building material. In Africa, rammed earth and thatch were, for centuries, the default until they gave way to bricks and mortar. I&#8217;ve always thought of North America as the wood construction capital of the universe, due to its wealth of forests. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOUND HORN</title>
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		<comments>http://design-altruism-project.org/2012/02/07/sound-horn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Stairs Editor&#8217;s Note: With this posting we launch our Indian Journal category of D-A-P India. For over thirty years, ever since seeing Satyajit Ray&#8217;s Apu Trilogy in the 70&#8242;s, I&#8217;ve dreamed of being here. As is often the case, I made it elsewhere first, to Africa, which was a good buffer. Uganda has many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JeepneED: Science Ed Off the Beaten Path</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Ex Patria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An Xiao Mina They&#8217;re a colorful, familiar sight all across the Philippines. Converted from old US army vehicles and personally decorated by the drivers, jeepneys have been transformed into viable public transportation vehicles. They zip through dense traffic much more easily than a bus but they can still fit at least a dozen people. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mission Control, We Have Altruism Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Altruism Memeplex]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Stairs I&#8217;ve been writing about altruism at this blog for so long it all begins to blend together. My inaugural essay spoke about the biological/memetic basis for altruism. The year before I had published an essay at Design Issues that was a prelude to D-A-P. Finally, along comes a book that corroborates some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political Illustration: Lebanon and Beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed. note— This interview of Daniel Drennan was conducted by Nabil Chehade at American University of Beirut, where Mr. Drennan has been teaching. Series of four posters for the Return to Palestine March, May 15, 2011. Artist: Jamaa Al-Yad NC: Have you been involved in any projects that lean directly towards more political issues in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New African Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Small Kindnesses]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re pleased to observe that our friends at Terrestrial Design in Pretoria, South Africa recently won an award from the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS), that country&#8217;s design oversight body, for their safe Arivi paraffin stove. A 2009 INDEX Award finalist, the Arivi addresses a much needed improvement in stove efficiency and safety for [...]]]></description>
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