Local Impact Design: global best practices

Resumen

How design can have a positive impact in local communities and economies ?

Several groups, universities, and incubators are now working in local impact projects all over the world, creating local brands and sustainable productive chains with projects that are merging teaching, research and professional activities.

This paper evaluates some of the most relevant local impact projects in different countries and continents such as Brazil, India and Ghana delineating a methodology that can be replicated.

Local Impact Design is a branch of design practice that is now ready to emerge from the praxis to the theory in order to share tools and methods for the development of a global network.