Design, on its own, can have very little impact on people's lives. Unless designs are taught, proliferate, and spread, they help no one. Teaching design in general, and sharing specific designs, allow design to explore its own limits, to test itself in the real world.

From my adventures as a volunteer in the Peace Corps, through my position as a lecturer at Stanford, to my time as a designer for ApproTEC, knowledge transfer and training has always played an important role in my design experiences.

"Teaching", however, is by no means confined to any sort of classroom. Whether it's with masons in the sahelian plains of Mali, with some of America's brightest students in a workshop, or with welders in a large manufacturing firm in Nairobi, education and design dissemination take on countless forms.