The book "Porous Frontiers: Design for Development" is a collection of the most innovative approaches to the subject of design in the context of the communities of the rural poor today. The young designers of School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, and RMIT University, Australia, have done a tremendous job bringing the discourse of design for development of today up-to-speed with current ways of imagining design solutions. 
 
The proposed project, the Deer Park Project, emerged as a unique case study in a “design for development project” undertaken in a transnational studio setting. Typical projects included are Smokeless Stove, the Solar Light, the Toilet, the Water Carrier, and Water Purification. 
 
Students in Australia were asked to imagine what the Australian response to design for the ‘remote’ would have been. Thus the context of the project was to be India, but the solutions would have to have an Australian flavor.