Social Design: Water Fountain App

http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/need-drinking-water-fountain-theres-app.html
App for iPhone that tracks where the closest water fountain is.

Social Design: Funny Notices

Social Design- Baltimore

 Crazy Traffic cones, set up so poorly they were creating traffic jams at every on ramp

 Litter at every corner

 Empty and overgrown lots, scattered throughout the city

 Alleyway, filled with potted plants. An Urban Garden.

 "Urban Garden"

 Mosaic and Urban Garden

 Mosaic on side of building

  Mosaic and Urban Garden

 Mosaic on side of building

Social Design: Guerrilla Marketing

http://guerilla-art.wikidot.com/what-is-guerilla-art

Social Design: Guerrilla Marketing

Guerrilla marketing is an advertising strategy in which low-cost unconventional means (graffiti, sticker bombing, flash mobs) are utilized, often in a localized fashion or large network of individual cells, to convey or promote a product or an idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerrilla_marketing

Social Design: NY Times 9/6

Article: Pushed by Obama, Democrats Alter Platform Over Jerusalem

• criticism to restore language in the platform to say that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel
• statement was removed in 2008 to maintain consistent between views of Obama and the Democratic party
• Romney consistently said that Jerusalem is the capital
• "the political status of Jerusalem is one of the most contentious issues in any potential peace settlement between the Israelis and the Palistinians, with both the Israeli and Palistinian authority asserting that the holy city is their capital"
• "Jerusalem is for all of us"
• as a young jewish american, i struggle with Israel issues frequently. on one hand, i do believe that Israel is the Jewish state, yadda, yadda, but also, i agree with the quote saying that Israel is for all of us.

Social Issues

• censorship
• bullying
• smoking and tobacco use
• unemployment
• poverty
• recycling
• ignorance