Parsons Alumna on Design Habilitation in Haiti
With the help of Donna Karan’s Urban Zen Foundation and members of the Parsons community, Haitian artisans received modern design training and access to state-of-the-art machinery needed to compete in the global marketplace.
An incubator for Haiti’s artisan community, the Design Organization Training (D.O.T) center, enables them to scale up production while preserving their unique cultural practices. Fostering innovation, providing resources and materials, graduates including Akuma trained Haitian artisans to refine their products and processes in the summer of 2015 and continued in the fall.