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

Sep 2017
A workshop on Material Driven Design was conducted for Bachelor Students at DoD by Prarthana Majumdar (alumnus of IITG and currently pursuing her Doctoral Research at TU Delft.
May 2017
9 undergraduate students and 4 post-graduate students successfully completed their thesis projects. To know more about their projects visit People section.
February 2017
A pilot course on  "Sustainable Product Service System Design applied to Distributed Economics" conducted at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology under the LeNSin project.
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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