Remember how much fun we had when we got together and made a difference in two days? Well, a team of North Carolinians felt like taking matters into their own hands, without warning and without ceremony. Design activist extraordinaire…

Bryan Bell’s approach to expanding design’s role in addressing public needs, highlighted last week on the Omnibus, is a powerful step towards redefining the popular conception of what design can do. He is not alone in this effort, joined by design/build curricula like Auburn University’s Rural Studio

Next week on the Omnibus we’ll be sharing documentation of our first live event: last November, we worked with Bryan Bell, Founder of Design Corps, to convene six teams of young designers to design and build something in the public interest, constructed from found materials, in 48 hours. Bryan kicked the project off…