International Design Clinic
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International Design Clinic Details
The International Design Clinic, or IDC, is an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to realizing much-needed creative work with communities in need around the world. Since its inception in 2006, the IDC has completed over a dozen projects on four continents, including an urban tent for the homeless made of reclaimed water bottles and plastic bags; a communal playspace for Romanian orphans constructed of construction debris; a vision for education for the migratory communities of India based upon borrowed resources; a three-dollar projection system designed to rearticulate the manner in which art and architecture is conceived, displayed and regenerated; and a street-based educational system designed within vending architectures for kids working the streets of Bolivia. In each case, the work produced was the product of an intensely collaborative creative address, based upon existing conditions and undervalued, indigenous materials and resources. The intent in so doing is to attach the work to the circumstances at hand, so that our community partners might possess and evolve the work for years to come. Instead of a fish, the IDC offers not teachings, but a creative process through which we could collaborate with those in need to create new poles, raise new fish, and craft new teachings.
