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Sharmistha Banerjee, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Design Adjunct Professor, Center for Disaster Management and Research Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Phone: +91 361 258 2469 Mail to: sharmistha [at] iitg.ac.in, banerjee.sharmistha [at] gmail.com Sustainability and Social Innovation Lab - www.sustainability-and-social-innovation.com ResearchGate Profile Orcid Id Scopus Id Researcher Id Google Scholar Id Education:
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About Me: I am an industrial designer with an experience in working in collaborative innovation and sustainable product design. Currently I am working as Assistant Professor at Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. My PhD is in Design for Sustainability in the arena of scale-appropriate agricultural equipment design. I did my bachelor in Industrial Design from IIT Guwahati, a master in Integrated Product Design from Technical University of Delft, Netherlands, and PhD from IIT Guwahati. I have co-founded the Sustainability and Social Innovation Lab at Department of Design, IIT Guwahati. The lab focusses on creating systems for sustainable human consumption and production through a complete revamp of the consumption structure with our design interventions. We are part of the global network on sustainability, the Learning and Education Network in Sustainability (LeNS) consisting of 150+ global universities. Currently a large part of our sustainable product-service development projects are in the domain of agriculture. At IIT Guwahati I teach courses like System Design for Sustainability, Usability Engineering, User Research Techniques, Product Detailing, Interaction Design, Design Management, Plastics and composites and Design Semantics. I have also developed a MooC course on System Design for Sustainability which had more than 600 subscribers in the academic year 2018 - 19. In the past few years, I have worked in India, Bangladesh and Netherlands with companies like Philips, Infosys, MIDCO, VU Medical University Amsterdam, Conpax Verpakking, Beat Belly, Botanische Tuin Delft, ACC Ltd, educational institutes like IIT Guwahati, MIT Institute of Design Pune, IDC, IIT Bombay and L'Ecole de Design (Indian Operations), Nantes-Atlantique, France and NGOs like International Development Enterprise Bangladesh. |
1st prototype testing of a Bed Planter operated by power tillers
A collaborative course under the aegis of the LeNS initiative
MooC course of System Design for Sustainability on the Swayam Platform
Understanding the weavers of Sualkuchi under the course System Design for Sustainability
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3D model of a Bed Planter operated by power tillers
Welcome to the Sustainability and Social Innovation Lab
Visit to Sualkuchi to study the Silk industry and design interventions under the course System Design for Sustainability
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An ever growing network of global institutes working in the domain of Design for Sustainability
A field visit to local agricultural fields to understand their design intervention needs
Visit to SBMS college to study the Silk industry and design interventions under the course System Design for Sustainability
Sustainable agricultural mechanisation guidelines
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