Global Engenering is a project of Yong Traveling Designers about 'the culture conector' It's a project of the Rotterdam University working together with students from different cities over europe.
Designing a product for one of the biggest electronica companies based on a subculture that maybe becomes mainstream looks doable. But what if that subculture hates the massproduction and the profit economy the company is in...
The Freecycle Network™ is made up of 4,718 groups with 6,577,776 members across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns and thus keeping good stuff out of landfills.