Dream Ball Project

The Dream Ball Project by Unplug Design is an amazing demonstration of how packaging can impact mankind in a positive way- increasing quality of life, ensuring a second life to a box, and forming a bond between two people.

The problem:

To the children in The Third World; Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Congo and etc, who can't enjoy football freely because of poverty, war and natural disaster, having a football means a lot and can be a dream and hope to escape from their poor life.

However, the children are so poor that they can not buy a football. So, they play football with the ball made of plastic bag or a coconut palm leaves Therefore, giving them their own footballs which can give them hope, is our aim of this project.

The Solution:

We suggest this Dream Ball made of relife boxes deliverd to those poor children by recycling.

A. Creat patterns that can help making a ball on the surface of an aid box.

B. Activities of giving aid boxes to children in The Third World.

C. The used aid boxes will be recycled as a football by children with the patterns on boxes.

D. By making Dream Ball with the children together, the aid organizations will get the chance to be friendly with them.

The football: In the aspect of material, we considered children playing football with bare foot. So, we use paper that can be recycled and its thickness changes the intensity and elasticity of the Dream Ball. 

 

Comments

[jose luis garcia eguiguren]

Perfect example of how design can change the world. Really amazing project congratulations

[Angus]

I have no words for this project... this is the great pillar of Social eco design is so hard to reach. is great.

[j]

Not to be negative. But kids will play with anything.Part of being a child is to use what is available around you to play with. This gives an opportunity for that child to be creative. I came from a 3rd world country. My grand mother showed me how to weave a ball from banana leaves and dried sticks. I can now teach my child how to use their imagination to make toys from stuff in their surroundings.

Side from the sad pics from Redcross.

Once we start giving pre-made things to people. They stop being resourceful and creative. Which never get passed on.Like they say “Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime”

J

[BRodges]

I couldn't agree more. What the 3rd world needs more than a distraction from their poverty is the knowledge and creativity to find ways OUT of it.That being said, this is a pretty neat concept...

[Furpants]

These are quite beautiful and creative, but wholly unpractical. The extra pennies per container will never be spent on a box when it could be spent on MORE FOOD, medical supplies or other essential aid that is still in short supply. Also, I think the integrity of these containers are compromised by all those cuts - they would likely have a lot of breaks in transport.

It would be far more efficient to simply raise money to send along vacuum-sealed and shrink-wrapped Nerf balls, but I doubt that would be featured on The Dieline.

So many harmful things have happened to third world countries by well-intended but uneducated "solutions" to complex problems.

[clippingimages]

hmmm..........nice:)

[Kwame]

Reading the comments on this site has thought me two things about design.

1. Never try to help anyone, with anything, ever.

2. Describing anything you make as green or sustainable is just an invitation for the armchair designers of the world to explain to you how you're wrong.

You people will naysay and disparage anything. Truly amazing.