WATER FOR PEOPLE
Water For People is a Denver-based international development organization, dedicated to ending water and sanitation poverty.
WATER FOR PEOPLE
Water For People is a Denver-based international development organization, dedicated to ending water and sanitation poverty.
WATER FOR PEOPLE
Water For People is a Denver-based international development organization, dedicated to ending water and sanitation poverty.
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INSPIRATION: A life well-lived is never one lived in a vacuum. There are legions of people and countless movements that leave their mark on us, some more memorable and influential than others. Here is a tribute to some who have had a profound influence on us here at ONV.
ZAHA HADID - One of the most innovative architects of the last 100 years. https://www.wallpaper.com/tags/zaha-hadid
Photo: Ordrupgaard Museum
NELSON MANDELA - In a world dominated by rulers and leaders who've overstayed their welcome in power, "Madiba" worked tirelessly for independence, was imprisoned for 26 years, and went on to become South Africa's first black president. True to his word, he served just one term.
“I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.” - Speech from the Dock, Rivonia Trial, 20th April 1964
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Photo: Eric Miller
PAULA SCHER - Designer, painter, design ambassador, educator. The Leonard Bernstein of the visual arts.
BOB DYLAN - A freight train of modern American music.
"Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they’re drinkin’, thinkin’ that they got it made,
exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you’d better lift your diamond ring, you’d better pawn it babe, you used to be so amused, at Napoleon in rags and the language that he used, go to him now, he calls you, you can’t refuse, when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose, you’re invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal..."
- Like a Rolling Stone
Photo: Ken Regan
SYSTEMS THINKING - Making complex concepts understandable has been a challenge to communicators for millennia. Systems Thinking helps to show the basic structure of the thinking that has generated the ideas. By showing an idea's Distinctions, Systems, Relationships, and Perspectives in diagra-
mmatic form, the idea becomes accessible. In the animation, we see a peanut butter and jelly sandwich (without the top piece of bread shown for demon-stration purposes). First, we see that a gray outlined box is presented as a visual representation of the sandwich. We've labeled it accordingly. Then we see that the sandwich is made up of parts; bread, peanut butter, and jelly. Our next demonstration is a perspectival one; the perspective of the eater of the sandwich, and of the wheat farmer who was responsible for the sandwiches foundation. Finally, we see the perspective of the maker of the sandwich, who defines the relationship between the various components; (in this case, the delivery method of jelly to bread, and peanut butter to bread). A simple but very explicit deconstruction of an everyday occurrence.