My own career goal is to “[help people think about the future](http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/design\/).” <\/p>\n
I can’t imagine a better application of that than [a group from the University of Washington](http:\/\/syria.ischool.uw.edu\/) which [helps Syrian refugee children design a better future for themselves and their families](https:\/\/slate.adobe.com\/cp\/zlibu\/).<\/p>\n
> We asked the participants to work in pairs to fuel creativity and help ease literacy barriers. They used LEGO Mini-Figures and Bricks, art supplies, color pens, and FUJI Instamax Cameras to create the devices…<\/p>\n
> Magical devices often depict means of transportation…Mobility is a challenge in Za’atari for different reasons–many people have physical disabilities, exasperated by war trauma, and there is no public transport to assist with lack of roads…<\/p>\n
> Teams also designed devices similar to existing technology, such as Google glass, but that address particular needs in the camps. One team, who called themselves “Future’s Butterflies,” designed glasses that help discover and cure diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My own career goal is to “[help people think about the future](http:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/design\/).” I can’t imagine a better application of that than [a group from the University of Washington](http:\/\/syria.ischool.uw.edu\/) which [helps Syrian refugee children design a better future for themselves and their families](https:\/\/slate.adobe.com\/cp\/zlibu\/). > We asked the participants to work in pairs to fuel creativity and…more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,369,384],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-futurism","category-world","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1qp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5484,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481\/revisions\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}