Erez Mulay Lecture
Erez Mulay chose the most respectfull way of improving people's lifes as product designer. He creates working space for people with special needs who participate in producing green products. His studio and community center based in Tel-Aviv, Israel, is mostly about recycling. Companies of variable levels come to him with a task, for example, how to reuse their leftovers. The most elegant case for me was about bathroom ceramics company which had a lot of giant bags for delivering material. Erez designed a set of paper holders and baskets for bathroom that could be produced just by cutting and sewing those bags. In another case people with special needs developed special equipment and all the tools they needed to make products for new project. He claims that by this approach they feel more comfortable and normal than when just counting screws in some factory. He calls them "Invisible people", because society mostly prefers not to notice them, not to see and undertake