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The INTERNATIONAL DESIGN CLINIC, or IDC, is an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to realizing much-needed creative work with communities in need around the world. Since its inception in 2006, the IDC has completed over a dozen projects on four continents, including an urban tent for the homeless made of reclaimed water bottles and plastic bags; a communal playspace for Romanian orphans constructed of construction debris; a vision for education for the migratory communities of India based upon borrowed resources; and a street-based educational system designed within vending architectures for kids working the streets of Bolivia. In each case, the work produced was the product of an intensely collaborative creative address, based upon existing conditions and undervalued, indigenous resources. Instead of a fish, the IDC offers not teachings, but a creative process through which we might collaboratively realize new poles, raise new fish, and craft new teachings.