We had a very exciting course on Sustainable Product-Service Systems Design applied to Distributed Design and Distributed Manufacturing from 12- 23rd February under the aegis of our LeNSin project sponsored by Erasmus+ Program. Our faculty team (Ravi Mokashi Punekar, Pankaj Upadhyay and Sharmistha Banerjee) along with faculty from Plitecnico di Milano (Italy)(Carlo Vezzoli and Cenk Basbolat), UAM (Mexico) (Brenda García Parra and Alinne Sánchez Paredes Torres), Srishti institute of Art, Design and Technology (Bangalore) (Ranjani Balasubramanian and Ritu Sonalika), Mizoram University (Shiva Ji), CMRU School of Architecture (Bangalore) (Muralidhar Reddy), SBMS College (Assam) (Niharanjan Kalita) and Sualkuchi Institute of Fashion Technology (Assam) (Niranjali Kakoty) conducted this two week course. Students from IIT Guwahati, Srishti institute of Art, Design and Technology, IIITDM Jabalpur, Mizoram University and SBMS College participated for the course.

We have uploaded all course material at http://www.lens-india.org.


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Under the LeNSin project, we recently conducted a pilot course on Sustainable Product Service System Design applied to Distributed Economics at IIT Guwahati. The course was conducted with five first year PhD scholars by Ravi Mokashi Punekar, Sharmistha Banerjee and Pankaj Upadhyay.

The course introduced the scholars to the concepts of Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Product Service System Design and Distributed Economics.

The project involved a hands-on design assignment in which the scholars studied the Sualkuchi Silk Handloom industry. Various stakeholders - DC of Kamrup Rural, Deepak Bharali (an handloom machine innovator), loom owners, weavers, silk wholesalers and traders, Niharanjan Kalita (Sualkuchi Tant Unnayan Samiti) and Silk Testing Lab - were roped in to have a holistic view of the industry.

Here you can see glimpses of our research journey into the field. Stay in touch to know more about our design ideas and suggestions which will follow soon.

INTRODUCTION
We a group of five people were allotted the sector of transportation, how to make transportation of freights via trucks more sustainable in the current scenario.

A workshop was conducted to explore creative systems thinking with a focus on achieving sustainable development. The workshop focused on sustainable system development for News Production and Distribution, Rural Health Care Delivery, Freight Transport Management and Munga Silk Production and Weaving Sector. The workshop is part of our initiative for creating a National and Global Network on Learning and Practice for Design for Sustainability. The workshop was conducted under the aegis of the project Learning Network on Sustainability International, a Erasmus+ sponsored project.