We must train designers to train designers in those regions, to be a seed project to help form of design corps of able designers out of indigenous peoples. After a generation we may create designers committed to their own cultural heritage, lifestyles and needs. People in class questioned whether designers can ever be fully accountable for their work and to what extent must they try to recognize these effects. Certainly if one know the potential impact, one should have the choice to do so differently. It is a personal decision and value judgment in any situation.
Designers have to being to develop a mature sensibility for appropriate and systematic design.
Profitability seen not simply from the margin perspective, but from triple bottom line - incorporating prospective gains from designing products with economic, social, and environmental sustainability in mind. An intriguing niche in economics, has critics on both sides - business continues to look at raw margins and not positive spill over effects. An ongoing debate. Other examples of devices and how people value them. A wind-up radio worth four cows.