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Sustainability & Social Innovation Lab

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Design for Sustainability (DfS) is an emerging and significant domain. It is also one of the prime needs of the hour considering the burden of human consumption and production. In order to create sustainable human consumption and production, a complete revamp of the consumption structure is needed. Through the SSI Lab, the Department of Design at IIT Guwahati, aims to foray into this domain.

Updates

Looking for PhD candidates in the following areas:
-Industry 4.0 & Sustainability
-Artificial Intelligence for solving Design for Sustainability challenges
-Industry 4.0 applied to Sustainable Distributed Economy
-Circular Economy
-Sustainable Product Service System Design
-Design for Social Innovation
-Embodiment design for sustainability
-Frugal design and Innovation
To apply: https://iitg.ac.in/acad/admission/

Looking for PhD candidates who are passionate about the broader field of Disaster Management and Risk Reduction, specifically in the area of Product Design for Disaster Resilience
To apply: ​https://www.iitg.ac.in/cdmr/index_course-details.php?slno=RkNUU1J3K1hpVjExNzR0dC8yOWxadz09

Looking for Postdoctoral candidates (Indian and International)
Title: Artificial Intelligence to aid Design for Sustainability
To apply: https://iitg.ac.in/rnd/ipdf/loginCandidate.php

News

September 2023
Workshop on  "Design for Sustainability". ​http://www.sustainability-and-social-innovation.com/workshop-on-design-for-sustainability.html
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April  2023  
​Upadhyay, P., & Punekar, R. M. (2023). 'A framework for designing frugal innovations in marginalised contexts'. Journal of Cleaner Production, 410, 137170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137170

24 July 2023 to 13 Oct 2023 
Online course on "System Design For Sustainability" by  Prof. Sharmistha Banerjee

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The Learning Network on Sustainability - LeNSin
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  • Publications
  • Events
    • Workshop on Design for Sustainability
  • Blog