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.
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UpdatesLooking for PhD candidates in the following areas:
1. Design for sustainability 2. Frugal design and social innovation 3. Designing for children |
NewsMarch 2022
New Publication- Banerjee S., Upadhyay P., Punekar R.M. (2022). ‘‘Designerly Ways’ for Sustainable Livelihoods’. In: Melles G.B. (eds) Designing Social Innovation for Sustainable Livelihoods. Design Science and Innovation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8452-4_4. July 2021 - October 2021
Online course on System Design for Sustainability. Register at https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc21_de09/preview?fbclid=IwAR0BNK9aHg7EdFGzct9ObSk9Ukp_sVm5psubB901ZqClf5-Jz_CYCfjnGwo Jan 2021
Distinguished paper award for Prof. Pankaj Upadhyay and Prof. Ravi Mokashi Punekar for their paper titled "What can designers learn from failed solution in BOP contexts?" at ICoRD'21. |