Design for Extreme Affordability

Thank you for celebrating Extreme Expo 2024 🫶 🇨🇷 💜 - https://mailchi.mp/e9cd5082068d/extreme-expo-2024-thankyou

Our hearts are filled with the energy you shared with us at Extreme Expo 2024! We hope you had fun dancing with us, and immersing in the student-curated experiences showcasing their project journeys with 8 partners & communities.

Congratulations to the Extreme 2024 cohort!

Less than 2 days before Extreme Expo 2024!!! Students are flowing through final days of prep. We're excited to showcase their experiences on Thursday, June 6th at 7pm in the d.school.

Extreme Expo 2024 - https://mailchi.mp/6198ca874cf4/extreme-expo-12808359

Wonderful piece in Friday's New York Times on the fabulous work of Noora Health - that all started in the Design for Extreme Affordability class. Congratulations Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam for your amazing work.

Opinion | Teaching Patients How to Heal (Gift Article) A simple yet radical approach in Asia is equipping medical patients and their loved ones with the knowledge they need to heal themselves.

Co-design is deeply woven throughout Extreme. A participatory approach to design in which multiple stakeholders are involved throughout the process, co-design aims to shift power from the designer back to the community. Extreme students develop a co-design mindset & practice, shifting power and inviting in community through participatory tools such as conversational aids that center voices of the historically underrepresented.

Building on Extreme’s exploration of local projects over the past three years, Extreme 2024 endeavors to reach communities beyond the Bay Area, embracing global notions of collective impact. This Spring Break, student teams journeyed to Costa Rica to engage with communities and partner organizations, applying intentional design skills in real-life. Our value for “planning as a form of care” showed up in the form of packed itineraries with opportunities to build and test conversational aids for in-depth interviews, and co-design sessions with communities at the center of their design work.

Stay tuned to see what new insights our students will bring back to campus next week!

Extreme 2024 partner organizations span Costa Rica’s diverse geography and cultures. We are inspired by organizations that are deeply rooted in the communities they serve, and visit partner sites before class begins. We are filled with gratitude to our partners for their infusion of pura vida energy, dedication and resources to the joint success of Extreme! Our partners this year include:

Biblioteca David Kitson,
Bionica,
Diwo Ambiental, .cr
Fútbol x Mi País,
Asociación Mar a Mar,
Sifais,
SOMOS,
Soy Niña,

Follow us to join us on the journey of Extreme 2024 in Costa Rica, as we move towards shared goals of collective impact and learning for students, partners and communities!

Extreme projects begin with an immersion phase in which students learn about the socio-political context of the communities they will be working with & for. To be responsible designers, it is critical that students understand cultural, historical, and political context before* stepping into their projects so they approach the challenges with a meaningful understanding of the broader systems that have and will affect their projects. This year, the immersion phase was wrapped up through an immersive evening - “Pura Vida Mae!” - where students were invited to explore the evolution of Costa Rica through a ‘comida comunal’, storytelling, and dialogue.

“I’ve never had a class experience like this! There’s so much to Costa Rica - its people’s stories, and it’s my responsibility to approach it with depth and curiosity” ~ current Extreme student

Our incredible storytellers included: Sebastián Castro Sasso (), Gabriela Montalto (), Marciana Mora Lázaro, and Maria Paula, youth of Soy Niña ()

Image Description: Students entered through a gallery of images from Costa Rica and questions to reflect on their understanding, then emerged into an intimate dining space set with banana leaves, orchids (national flower of Costa Rica), and a traditional Costa Rican casado dinner. Over each course, students heard from 4 generations of Costa Rican storytellers, and engaged in lively discussion based on their stories and reflective prompts.





Credits: evening facilitated by , curated by the Extreme Teaching Team (Stuart, Naita, Kavya, & Eleanor).

Extreme projects begin with an immersion phase in which students learn about the socio-political context of the communities they will be working with & for. To be responsible designers, it is critical that students understand cultural, historical, and political context before* stepping into their projects so they approach the challenges with a meaningful understanding of the broader systems that have and will affect their projects. This year, the immersion phase was wrapped up through an immersive evening - "Pura Vida Mae!" - where students were invited to explore the evolution of Costa Rica through a 'comida comunal', storytelling, and dialogue.

"I've never had a class experience like this! There's so much to Costa Rica - its people's stories, and it's my responsibility to approach it with depth and curiosity" ~ current Extreme student

Our incredible storytellers included: Sebastián Castro Sasso (), Gabriela Montalto (), Marciana Mora Lázaro, and youth of Soy Niña, Maria Paula ()

Image Description: Students entered through a gallery of images from Costa Rica and questions to reflect on their understanding, then emerged into an intimate dining space set with banana leaves, orchids (national flower of Costa Rica), and a traditional Costa Rican casado dinner. Over each course, students heard from 4 generations of Costa Rican storytellers, and engaged in lively discussion based on their stories and reflective prompts.





Credits: evening facilitated by , curated by the Extreme Teaching Team (Stuart, Naita, Kavya, & Eleanor).

Thank you for celebrating Extreme's 20th🫶 -

Join Us for Extreme's 20th Celebration on Oct. 20th 💥 - https://mailchi.mp/4d385d26f004/2018-design-for-extreme-affordability-expo-12782048

Shahed Alam and Edith Elliott from Noora Health explain their simple but highly effective approach to healthcare, and how they measure impact.

Empowering Family Caregivers: The Transformative Work of Noora Health - Denver Frederick The following is a conversation between Dr. Shahed Alam and Edith Elliott, the co-CE0s of Noora Health, and Denver Frederick, the Host of The Business of Giving.

Countdown begins! Only a few days until our culmination event - Extreme Expo2023. This year, we continued to root ourselves in our communities here in the SF Bay Area, continued to put into intentional practice Extreme codesign, and centered care, compassion and collective impact within our experiences in 2023. Join us for an evening of immersion and in Extreme community.

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Congratulations again to Edith, Shahed and all the Noora Health team.

The most powerful untapped resource in health care Whether we're rushing a child to the emergency room after a fall or making chicken soup for a feverish spouse, love inspires us to act when a family member gets sick. Global health activists Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam believe we can harness this power to create better health outcomes for everyone...

Extreme Alums and Friends: If you would like to join a conversation with Extreme's faculty lead Stuart Coulson, on the latest thinking on the program, from his contributing chapter to the recently published Frontiers in Social Innovation, join him online on Thursday at 9:00am PDT.

https://groups.stanford.edu/events/21742

Huge congratulations to Noora Health, from small beginnings as a team in the Extreme 2012 class, to a social enterprise helping millions of people including a dramatic Covid response, to Skoll Foundation awardees and now Audacious Project awardees providing the necessary resources to reach an additional 70 million caregivers.

We are so excited to celebrate Edith and Shahed, and their on-going impact and success.

Sanku - Project Healthy Children celebrate the installation of their 600th maize flour nutrient dossifer, originally designed in Design for Extreme Affordability. Congratulations!

Celebrating our 600th mill 🥳. 600 equipped with lifesaving tools to .

A huge milestone, but we still have a long way to go before we achieve our goal of ending malnutrition for .

Want to help us achieve our goal? Share this post and help others learn about our innovative technology and sustainable business model that give 2 million+ East Africans access to the basic human right of nutritious food.

One way to tackle poverty? Replace dirt floors! EarthEnable in Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-08-23/one-way-to-tackle-extreme-poverty-flaxseed-oil-floors

One Way to Tackle Extreme Poverty: Replace Dirt Floors Nonprofits are creating innovative housing solutions to cut cases of diarrhea and other illness, but more than a billion people still live on earth floors that can cause problems.

Team Fortuna is back with a new name and a new product- support them on Kickstarter! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nutshellcoolers/nutshell-coolers-chill-by-nature

Nutshell Coolers - Chill by Nature Sustainable and collapsible coolers made from coconuts. Designed to last years, not millennia.

For our 2022 program (Jan-June) we are seeking new partner organizations in the SF Bay Area that can be described as being:

// SOCIAL MISSION DRIVEN

// FOUNDED OR SUPPORTED BY STAFF FROM THE COMMUNITIES THEY WORK IN OR PROVEN HISTORY OF RECEIVING ONGOING COMMUNITY INPUT

// CONNECTED AND TRUSTED WITH THE POPULATION THEY ARE SEEKING TO HELP

// AT LEAST 1-2 YEARS WORKING IN THEIR FIELD WITH WELL-ESTABLISHED TEAM

// RESOURCED TO IMPLEMENT ANY SOLUTIONS THAT MIGHT RESULT FROM A COLLABORATION

If you know of an organization that may be a good fit and interested in engaging with a student course, please email us at [email protected].

We have a mascot! Made in the by Marlo, X will be traveling from team to team this quarter and going on adventures with them!

Recidiviz is a non-profit technology company based in San Francisco and was co-founded by an Extreme alumna. They build common, open source technical infrastructure to help the criminal justice system end mass incarceration and focus on ongoing iteration towards better outcomes.

Criminal justice data today is inefficient and ineffective: researchers, advocates, policymakers and practitioners each need funding and time for data collection and cleaning, and most data collected is too stale by the time it’s compiled to be actionable.

Our students will be working to understand what information proesecutors need and how data-driven decision making could move the needle on charging and sentencing outcomes.

Founded in 1948, the San Francisco Foundation is one of the nation’s largest community foundations — a grantmaking public charity dedicated to improving life within a specific local region. Their mission is to mobilize resources and act as a catalyst for change to build strong communities, foster civic leadership, and promote philanthropy in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Our students are working with the to tackle the challenge of providing more affordable housing in the Bay Area by making the process of building accessory dwelling units more equitable, streamlined, and affordable.

The Ever Forward Club mentors young men in middle and high school by providing them with safe, brave communities that build character and transform lives. They serve teens who are under-schooled, de-schooled, and over-schooled. Founded and run by Ashanti Branch, a former d.school Fellow, the Ever Forward Club's mission is to give young men a chance to get real.

Our students are working with on their current challenges to pivot to virtual, to scale to more schools, and to support teachers and students who are really in need of emotionally supportive services and curriculum.

LifeMoves is one of the largest and most respected homeless services agencies operating in Silicon Valley. With 40 years of experience and expertise, LifeMoves has a proven model that moves over 2,000 people out of homelessness every year while simultaneously addressing the immediate and urgent needs of more than 1,200 unhoused neighbors each day and night.

Our students will be working with LifeMoves on their challenge to find ways to expand bed capacity efficiently, effectively, and expeditiously to address our immediate homelessness crisis. LifeMoves would like to reduce the time, effort and resources, especially capital costs required to deploy transitional housing sites such as the one in Mountain View, through enabling productization, rapid replication and/or process efficiencies. Solutions to these challenges will help LifeMoves roll out the Mountain View model across the Bay Area. LifeMoves plans to create an open source “playbook” and encourage others to replicate this model across the State and beyond.

Established in 1993, Joint Venture provides analysis and action on issues affecting the Silicon Valley economy and quality of life. The organization brings together established and emerging leaders—from business, government, academia, labor and the broader community—to spotlight issues, launch projects and work toward innovative solutions.

We are excited to partner with Joint Venture Silicon Valley on their food waste reduction and food access initiative. Our students will be working on the challenge of figuring out how excess food can be stored and redistributed in new and innovative ways for our Bay Area neighbors. The challenge is a timely one, as California Senate Bill 1383 will come into play in the next few years, mandating a 20% diversion of edible food waste toward human consumption.