DesignthatMatters

Firefly is the first low-cost phototherapy device that Vietnamese clinicians trust to use in the room with mothers in rural hospitals--a context that supports an optimal cycle of newborn phototherapy and feeding for rapid ...

In 2001, graduate students at the MIT Media Lab launched Design that Matters as a design studio and seminar course for fellow students looking to connect their education to real needs in poor communities. The DtM founders ...

Design that Matters creates new products that allow social enterprises in developing countries to offer improved services and scale more quickly. DtM has built a collaborative design process through which hundreds of volun...

Through DtM's collaborative design process, engineering and business students at MIT, Worcester Polytechnic, Babson College and Cambridge University in the UK collaborated in the design of a rugged, lightweight, low-power ...

Design that Matters (DtM) has been named a 2005 Tech Museum Awards Laureate for development of the Kinkajou Portable Library and Projector, an education technology transforming how illiterate adults in nighttime classes in...