Deconstructing Product Design

Q-Drum

Hans Hendrikse and Pieter Hendrikse, 1993

1. For those living in developed nations, it is easy to forget that a significant percentage of the world population still engages in a daily struggle to access potable water. Purifying water is the first challenge, transporting it another and no less formidable second — and it is the latter problem targeted by the Q-Drum. Pieter Hendrikse comments: “In the early ’90s, my work took me through some of the rural areas and villages around Pietersburg and I noticed how the women and children struggled to get the water from the few taps to their homes, in some cases kilometers away. The few who had wheelbarrows used them, but mostly women carried the containers on their heads like in the rest of ...