# Tim Brown urges designers to think big

Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory "design thinking."

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2009
- Runtime: 16 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, History
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TimBrown_2009G)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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