DESMEEM Talk: Design & Personal Finance

With Eeva Campbell, Dima Boulad and Rawad Hajj

To a designer, there are few things that are less interesting than financial issues and money management. Most of us are not well equipped to handle this issue that we all face since the day we receive money from our parents to the salaries we get paid by employers. These three designers went in every nook and cranny interviewing and developing workshops with teenagers in Beirut in order to understand their spending habits and the problems they face with money. Could there be a user-friendly and interactive solution to all this? Can technology help us restructure our income and save for a specific goal?

This is one of the talks for Beirut Design Week 2012. The talks are all dedicated to the role of design in social and environmental context.