Met her at the STIR symposium in Columbus, OH on October 8, 2011:
This studio-in-a-school does social design projects worldwide. Natacha Poggio teams up with engineers, scientists, and other experts to find the right way to lead GD students along the path of completion of social design projects. They’ve done a clean water education campaign in India, women’s safety in Kenya, and an MLK mural in Hartford, CO. These are cross-cultural and design-driven — we should interview her!
She spoke about the challenge of doing complex projects like this within a class structure at school. Projects can take up to 3 semesters to complete. Some students participate for one semester only, while others repeat the class just to see the project through to completion.
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WATER FOR INDIA 2009
http://designglobalchange.virb.com/waterforindia
Engineers WIthout Borders student chapter at University of Hartford:
http://www.ewb-hpc.org/india
In January 2009, Hartford Art School Professor Natacha Poggio and a team of five Art & Design students traveled to Abheypur, India to implement the Water for India sanitation campaign.
Water for India aims to convey the importance of cleanliness, sharing, and respect for water resources. During the January 09 trip, the team painted a mural at the girls’ primary school and distributed coloring books with sanitation tips as well as t-shirts with the campaign logo.
This project stemmed from a collaboration with the Engineers without Borders student chapter at the University of Hartford. It is interdisciplinary in it’s foundation. The
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