It suddenly struck me.
Feb. 4th, 2011 07:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cheshirenoirThis is coming raw off the top of my head via my iPhone so I apologise for typos and the like.
Last night I was watching yet another group working on "let's help the third world by bootstrapping some tech together so they can jumpstart toasted at least the twentieth century" and it got me thinking about a different sort of mechanicalization that these projects inevitably seem to miss. To wit: none of these projects seem to help with roles traditionally performed by women. I cannot remember where I saw the comment, but recently I saw a soundbite mentioning "the prison of the laundry". Cooking, cleaning and washing are at least as much of a labour trap as maintaining fields or building primitive houses are. Now I'm trying to think of a way of building an ultra low cost labour saving device for washing, cleaning and cooking. I envision a simple two stroke engine as the power source with a 44 gallon drum attached for washing and drying. Noisy and loud but one would do for an entire village. I'll keep niggling this one I think.
More ideas to follow.
Last night I was watching yet another group working on "let's help the third world by bootstrapping some tech together so they can jumpstart toasted at least the twentieth century" and it got me thinking about a different sort of mechanicalization that these projects inevitably seem to miss. To wit: none of these projects seem to help with roles traditionally performed by women. I cannot remember where I saw the comment, but recently I saw a soundbite mentioning "the prison of the laundry". Cooking, cleaning and washing are at least as much of a labour trap as maintaining fields or building primitive houses are. Now I'm trying to think of a way of building an ultra low cost labour saving device for washing, cleaning and cooking. I envision a simple two stroke engine as the power source with a 44 gallon drum attached for washing and drying. Noisy and loud but one would do for an entire village. I'll keep niggling this one I think.
More ideas to follow.
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Date: 2011-02-04 12:29 am (UTC)http://studioblog.designaffairs.com/?p=264
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Date: 2011-02-04 08:14 am (UTC)