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BU researchers also support the Royal National Lifeboat Institute to develop product solutions to prevent drowning, initially in Bangladesh. 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BU academics have also been involved in helping the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) to develop product solutions to help prevent global drowning, with an initial focus on the Bangladeshi context.  \nAlongside the potential to enrich or even save lives in the target communities, such projects can offer considerable benefits to a range of domestic stakeholders: from the students and staff themselves to local businesses and non-government organisations (NGO’s) . But they can also offer considerable challenges-educationally, ethically and practically – including issues with design validation, the reliability and availability of information, and the barriers of differing cultures and languages.  \nHow can educators support low-resource projects successfully? Can students truly gain sufficient understanding of all the relevant issues to design products for an unfamiliar culture, no matter how diverse? And why are low-resource communities looking to designers from the other side of the world to provide low-tech solutions to local problems?  \nBournemouth University’s low-resource projects have achieved varying degrees of success. By examining some of these- including the RNLI’s Bottle Buoy, which has recently gained international acclaim-the authors explore the complex issues relating to the use of such projects in an educational context, and present a proposal for future success using jugaad strategies and greater collaboration.  \nKey words  \ndrowning, low-resource, RNLI, Bangladesh, Bottle Buoy, jugaad  \n1 The Global Drowning Problem  \nThe scale of the global drowning problem is huge. The World Health Organisation estimates approximately 372,000 deaths occur worldwide from drowning every year (WHO, 2016) . This figure equates to around 70% of the global death toll from malnutrition, and 60% of that from malaria. More than nine-tenths of these deaths occur in Africa and South-East Asia, where drowning is often the leading killer of children over the age of one. Recent media coverage has highlighted the devastating flooding suffered in South Asia during the 2017 monsoon season-which left at least 41 million people affected across the region (Farand, 2017)– but sadly the vast majority of deaths that occur daily from drowning go unreported.  \nIn Bangladesh approximately 50 children drown every day, usually within 20 metres of their home (RNLI, 2017) . Communities are often sited close to open water, and they are heavily reliant on local ponds and lakes for daily tasks such as washing and bathing. As there is often no culture of water safety, international aid agencies and non-government organisations (NGO’s) have recently been working to reduce drowning by address this. Much of the current thinking and practice in the drowning prevention community involves activity in education, influence, supervision and rescue, but in areas which have seen efficient drowning reduction activity there are still gaps in these approaches. In the UK the Royal National Lifeboat Institute (RNLI) are now increasingly focussing on design and design thinking to further resolve the issue of drowning prevention.  \n2 LRC Projects at BU  \nStudents attending the BA/BSc Product Design course at Bournemouth University (BU) spend their final year developing a single product in response to a defined real-world problem of their own choosing. Projects relating to low resource communities (LRCs) have been a regular occurrence for many years at BU, with the resulting products invariably intended for industrialised manufacture.  \nHowever,","cbCaibEMou8E3Zlz","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibEMou8E3Zlz","pdf",708210,15,"English","# Abstract\n# The Global Drowning Problem\n## Scale of drowning deaths\n## Regional patterns and unreported fatalities\n## Bangladesh context and current approaches\n# LRC Projects at BU\n## Student project model and goals\n## Shift toward local production\n## RNLI strategy and technical collaboration\n# Future success proposal","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the document focus on?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on reducing global drowning, especially in low-resource communities with limited water-safety culture and inadequate prevention measures.\"},{\"question\":\"How do Bournemouth University projects support low-resource communities?\",\"answer\":\"Projects aim to enable local problem-solving by using locally available resources and production methods rather than imposing Western industrialized solutions.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is collaboration with the RNLI important in these initiatives?\",\"answer\":\"The RNLI provides expert input, access to users in target communities, and professional testing facilities, while students test designs in the RNLI Sea Survival Centre.\"}]","Rescued by Design - Enabling Low-Resource Communities to Reduce Global Drowning | PDF",1792091565,38]