Sustainability & Social Innovation Lab
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

New Project: A look into the lives of Indian Dhobis
We successfully completed the project on understanding the life and work of the washermen community in Guwahati.
Partnership with LeNSin
We joined the Learning network in Sustainability International, an Erasmus+ funded project.
On-field Ginger-Turmeric Processor Design
A project initiated under Design Innovation Center at DoD, IIT Guwahati.

News

Jan 2019 
Our Research Scholar, Prarthana Majumdar, bagged the best paper award at ICoRD 2019 for her paper titled: Motivation for Do-It-Yourself in Rural Base of the Pyramid Communities and the Changing Landscape.
3rd - 5th April 2019 Conference is organised as part of the LeNSin, the International Learning Network of networks on Sustainability project (2015-2019).
Starting from 30th July 2018 an NPTEL MOOC course on System Design for Sustainability by Sharmistha Banerjee. For more information and to register, visit: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc18_de01/preview
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The Learning Network on Sustainability - LeNSin
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On-field Ginger-Turmeric Processor
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Redesign of 2 Wheel Power Tiller Based Bed Planter