This new report by D-Lab Instructor Mathieu Aguesse is the result of a needs assessment undertaken in #Nepal with D-Lab students and can “serve as a field manual for ... applying immersive, human-centered research techniques in low-resource settings.” bit.ly/44LU3Nv

"MIT D-Lab, a pioneer in the use of participatory design to address global poverty challenges, joins MIT MAD’s growing ecosystem of design programs...John Ochsendorf, MAD’s founding director, has commented, 'If D-Lab didn’t exist, we’d have to invent it.'" Read more: bit.ly/3ZiX6ee

MIT D-Lab spinout Moving Health featured on @theworld.org! Jeremy Siegel interviewed Co-Founder & CEO Emily Young and MH CTO an&d Country Director Isaac Quansah. From a D-Lab class in 2016 to serving 100k people today! Listen to the 4+ minute story here: bit.ly/4dbT2lQ

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Two MIT D-Lab alumni, Kristin Kagetsu of Saathi and Jacki Stenson of Essmart have won $100k Cartier Women's Initiative Impact Awards. D-Lab is so proud to have played a part in the story of these amazing ventures! Read more: bit.ly/3GG6u5i

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Wonderful article about Moving Health from its origins as a project in a D-Lab class in 2016 on through their amazing reach today: Moving Health’s ambulances and emergency transportation network cover more than 100,000 people in northern Ghana who previously lacked reliable medical transportation.

Congrats to the #MIT IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge teams celebrated last night & to MIT PKG Center on 25 years of the program! Great to hear D-Lab founder Amy Smith's keynote & the history of her work to co-create IDEAS in 2001!

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On April 4, D-Lab ED Ana Pantelic joined a panel of alumni at the @bupardeeschool.bsky.social to discuss Advancing Human Progress Through Peacebuilding & Development. In her remarks, Ana emphasized the critical role of #participatorydesign & #localinnovation.

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Thanks to all who supported us during the MIT 24-Hour Challenge and to all who collaborate with MIT D-Lab in a myriad of ways throughout the year to design for a more equitable world! 💚

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Consider supporting MIT D-Lab today! giving.mit.edu/24hc-dlab 125 donations unlock a total of $11,500 in challenge pledges. Support participatory design and community-led international development - thank you!

What happens when you hand a local innovator an Arduino microcontroller or introduce them to open-source repositories for coding assistance? The results are transformational. Read more: bit.ly/3Fk2I0L

Congratulations to MIT J-WAFS on 10 years supporting MIT water and food research! Among the terrific projects highlighted here is the evaporative cooling work of former D-Lab Research Engineer Eric Verploegen, founder of CoolVeg.

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Read all about IDDS Tairawhiti, a 2.5 week hands-on design summit w/ participants from 10 countries. Working in Tolaga Bay, Ruatoria, and Wairoa, the summit theme was “Resilient Indigenous Communities.” #designequity #newzealand #Tairawhiti #Wairoa #indigenous #mitdlab @mitofficial.bsky.social

One grad student "noticed that those in the humanitarian field sometimes develop solutions before properly understanding the problems and needs of a community. D-Lab taught him the importance of co-creation ...”

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