Exploring how users/customers make meaning of their world and how they attempt to create meaning and identity through artifacts (and their itneraction with these) can deliver much insight - if tapped. Ethnographic studies do this. CLP is instinctively scratching the surface with this. This link takes you to a primer.
Very passionate about the power of energized individuals to transform communities, and how linking up with newmedia and printing-on-demand can facilitate life skills. These platforms can be used as a stepping stone and a way of translating project skills into work skills