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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

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Education:
  • PhD, Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India
  • MSc, Integrated Product Design, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands
  • BDes, Industrial Design, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

​Areas of Interest:
  • Design for sustainability 
  • Agricultural Product Design 
  • Lifecycle Assessment and Design
  • Sustainable Product-Service System Design
  • Product design
  • Medical Product Design
  • User Experience Design
  • Human Centered Design

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.
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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.

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1st prototype testing of a Bed Planter operated by power tillers
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A collaborative course under the aegis of the LeNS initiative
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MooC course of System Design for Sustainability on the Swayam Platform
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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
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Welcome to the Sustainability and Social Innovation Lab
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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
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A field visit to local agricultural fields to understand their design intervention needs
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Visit to SBMS college to study the Silk industry and design interventions under the course System Design for Sustainability
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Sustainable agricultural mechanisation guidelines
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