Wish for WASH?s Jasmine Burton Is Changing the World From the Bottom Up
We interview Jasmine Burton, designer of SafiChoo toilet to discuss the challenges of attempting to change one of the world's basic needs.
Jasmine Burton’s infectious, youthful energy has the habit of obscuring the breadth of the Atlanta, Georgia-based social impact designer and storyteller’s accomplishments ? a polymath whose work has literally set out to improve the world from the bottom up for nearly a decade. As the founder of social startup Wish for WASH, a multi-pronged collective committed to bringing innovation to sanitation through culturally specific research, design and education, Burton’s efforts have focused upon human-centered design intended to serve communities rather than markets, people over profit, and improve the quality of life with quantifiable results.
We became aware of Burton’s participation in an online panel talk during the recent Where Are the Black Designers" conference, where she shared the challenges of operating as a Black female designer in an industry where diverse representation, especially of Black talent, is sorely lacking. We followed up with Burton to delve further into the topic of what it means to design as an agent of positive change through functional design.
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Who is Jasmine Burton and what motivates your work as a designer"
It was during my freshman year in 2011 at Georgia Institute of Technology?s (GT) School of Design while studying Science in Industrial and Product Design I was inspi...
Jasmine Burton’s infectious, youthful energy has the habit of obscuring the breadth of the Atlanta, Georgia-based social impact designer and storyteller’s accomplishments ? a polymath whose work has literally set out to improve the world from the bottom up for nearly a decade. As the founder of social startup Wish for WASH, a multi-pronged collective committed to bringing innovation to sanitation through culturally specific research, design and education, Burton’s efforts have focused upon human-centered design intended to serve communities rather than markets, people over profit, and improve the quality of life with quantifiable results.
We became aware of Burton’s participation in an online panel talk during the recent Where Are the Black Designers" conference, where she shared the challenges of operating as a Black female designer in an industry where diverse representation, especially of Black talent, is sorely lacking. We followed up with Burton to delve further into the topic of what it means to design as an agent of positive change through functional design.
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Who is Jasmine Burton and what motivates your work as a designer"
It was during my freshman year in 2011 at Georgia Institute of Technology?s (GT) School of Design while studying Science in Industrial and Product Design I was inspi...
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