Or Malawi: we asked if a birthing center could radically reduce maternal and infant mortality.Malawi has one of the highest rates of maternal and infant death in the world.Using a simple strategy to be replicated nationally, we designed a birthing centerthat would attract women and their attendants to come to the hospital earlier and therefore have safer births.Or in the Congo, where we asked if an educational center could also be used to protect endangered wildlife.Poaching for ivory and bushmeat is leading to global epidemic, disease transfer and war.In one of the hardest-to-reach places in the world, we used the mud and the dirt and the wood around us to construct a centerthat would show us ways to protect and conserve our rich biodiversity.Even here in the US, we were asked to rethink the largest university for the deaf and hard of hearing in the world.The deaf community, through sign language, shows us the power of visual communication.We designed a campus that would awaken the ways in which we as humans all communicate, both verbally and nonverbally.
