What is design’s role during an epidemic?
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In response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africain 2014, over 60 students from Brown and RISD, faculty and Boston based MASS Design Group convened to ‘Fight Ebola with Design’ in support of USAID’s Grand Challenge, published on OpenIDEO. Ten cross-disciplinary groups generated concepts to redesign ecosystem problems from personal protective equipment to communication with affected communities.
