“You always expect it to be very different and it never is,” says Austen Angell, president of Modern Edge, a Portland, Oregon design firm. “The people are always the same….
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Kenya Blog Archives - Modern Edge
Another video about our project in Kenya with HTI and Eastman Chemical. Austen Angell speaks about the difficulties in cross-cultural instructions and language barriers. “We’re using the English language, as…
What: Disruptive Opportunity — The Hydro Pack: An Oregon Story, a panel discussion about global issues, social action and how the Oregon design community is putting the two together exemplified in…
Portland, Oregon mayor Sam Adams met with Eastman’s representatives and, among other topics, discussed the HydroPack as part of a disaster readiness plan. He loved the HydroPack and is interested…
Christmas arrived nine days early for Austen Angell and Joel Newman of the Portland, Oregon design firm, Modern Edge. That’s when Austen and Joel first saw photos of Austin Joel…
The HydroPack™ story has inspired so many people that we’re celebrating the 2011 holiday season with a special director’s cut of Bringing Water Back to Life, the video that kicked off…
Eastman’s Innovation Lab is featuring an ongoing series of videos on the HydroPack project, in collaboration with Hydration Technology Innovation and Modern Edge. Click here to see the whole series.
Collaborators on the ‘Hydropack’, C. Austen Angell of Modern Edge and Gaylon White of Eastman Chemical presented a revolutionary new product concept. With the Hydropack, designed for humanitarian relief, they embarked on extensive…
“It’s all about collecting feedback from the users and learning how people actually use the product before, during, after,” says Angell. “It’s not just about going in, ‘I have an…
Modern Edge is collaborating with HTI and Eastman to improve the usage model, design, packaging and comprehension of the HTI HydroPack, a disaster relief hydration system. We’re currently gathering usage…
We’re on day three of the usage pilot and rapid ethnography study for disaster relief in western Kenya. We’re exploring a variety of usage and acceptance metrics regarding the HTI HydroPack…
The Modern Edge team is busy preparing for our trip to Africa tomorrow. We’re heading to Bumala, Kenya with HTI and Eastman for the world pilot program of the HydroPack,…
Our team was in Eastern Kenya this past week working on logistics for a disaster relief project. Stay tuned for more information…