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Thiruchuli to Cincinnati: Design Impact grows local social innovation roots
When Ramsey Ford and Kate Hanisian spent months in Thiruchuli, a rural town in Tamil Nadu, India, they weren’t on an extended vacation. They were working with members of the community to design a way to use waste from a nearby charcoal plant to make fuel that burned cleaner than wood while creating new jobs for the locals.
The Northside couple’s journey started when Ford, 31, an industrial designer with a masters degree from UC, talked his wife, Hanisian, 32, about how the design process could be used to change the world, one problem at a time. To him, it seemed a responsible alternative to spending billions of dollars to design products that only a small percentage of the world ever use.
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