For our July 490 Meetup, we have a new, maybe permanent meeting space, thanks to Stine Jewett and the Silicon Valley Pad. Their website is coming, so check in here.
In May we were lucky to have Gunter Pauli stop by for an informal chat (Google him for an interesting read). In April Leo and Ryan presented their thesis projects for restaurant waste recycling and homeless people, respectively, and we had a great discussion about how that applies to the Designfluence mission.
We use the Meetup system for collaborative projects and networking amongst industrial/product designers and cultural creatives interested in raising people out of poverty through product design. "490" comes from "FOR the other 90 percent," also referring to Paul Polak's work (google him too if you don't know him) and his wish to turn around the fact that 90% of designers work for the richest 10%.
We invite designers, inventors, engineers, scientists and other interested individuals and groups like Project H to join our group.
To better know what we support, visit the Designfluence web pages.
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