Jason's Research and Design Projects

Hoima Bicycle

Hoima Bicycle: A low cost utility cargo bicycle for Uganda. Read more in the full paper here. The documentary video was awarded Best Documentary Short at the Northwest Projections Independent Film Festival, April 2009. It is available on DVD from Amazon.com.

Watch the trailer here.

Watch the documentary and other related videos here.

Papers available for downloading:

  • Design With the Majority: The Collaborative Design of a Cargo Bicycle for Uganda
    A paper presented at the 2008 IDSA National Conference, Pheonix, AZ.
  • Personal Fabrication and the Future of Industrial Design
    A paper presented at the 2007 ICSID Congress/IDSA National Conference, San Francisco, CA.

    A variation of this was also published as a chapter in the book Shaping the Future by the EPDE.

  • The Purpose and Power of Color in Industrial Design
    A paper presented at the 2006 IDSA National Conference.
  • Function Follows Form: A Reverse Process Design Project
    Paper presented at the 2005 IDSA National Education Conference.

    A varation of this paper was also published and presented at the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators of America (NCIIA) conference 2008.

    Watch a video of some of the results here.