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Journey’s for Water: Survival Strategies for Urban India

05 Sep 2013
In: Mumbai, Today's Office
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One of the things we’ve been sharing in India this week is a short study on Sarvajal a novel service to provide affordable clean drinking …
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Clean Fuel, Dirty Fuel

07 Sep 2010
In: Cultural Norms, Mazar e Sharif
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One of the side effects of using road-side fueling stations such as this is the assumption that the fuel is not as pure as that …
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Metro Etiquette:

Here in the Shanghai metro – when trains reach a particular density there is a subtle change in the passenger behaviour as they approach the …
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Closure for Dogs

28 Apr 2010
In: Design Inspiration, Shanghai
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Why is it acceptable to the dog’s owner that the dog pees on wheel, but it wouldn’t be acceptable if it peed on the windshield? …
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Field Research Dress Code

A dress code? For field research? Really? Well sort of. The first rule of field research is to dress for comfort – working days tends …
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Separation of Clean and Dirty Spaces

27 Nov 2006
In: Akedake, Cultural Norms
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Shoes specifically for use in the male toilet room (the rest of the building, a mountain lodge is a shoe free environment) the result of …
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