Design and Engineering for Low Resource Settings A Practical Guide

This book provides an integrated and practical methodology aimed at designing, developing, and implementing holistic solutions for the betterment of people living in low resource settings within developing nations. These people confront a multitude of challenges at individual, institutional, economic, and technological levels. Consequently, integrated solutions are necessary to satisfy their unmet or underserved needs effectively. Using a comprehensive approach, this book offers a systematic methodology for designing such integrated solutions, supplemented by case studies and actionable guidelines.

Outstanding features of the book include:

• An integrated methodology and guidelines for designing, developing, and implementing holistic solutions to support development of resource-constrained societies.
• The guidelines cover phases in the design process such as understanding context and needs, concept exploration and detailing, and implementation.
• Case studies illustrate each guideline.
• Visual illustrations for easy understanding of the guidelines.
• Actionable methods and strategies for applying the integrated methodology and guidelines in projects.

Practitioners, students, and researchers, interested in the sustainable development of low resource settings, will find this book motivating and practical.

1. Design and Engineering for Low Resource Settings: An Integrated Methodology.- 2. Context: Holistic Understanding and Adaptation.- 3. Codesign in Low Resource Settings.- 4. Design Strategies for Training, Awareness, and Income Generation.- 5. Lifecycle Design and Intersectoral Collaboration.

Santosh Jagtap holds an M.Des. degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, and a Ph.D. from the Engineering Design Centre at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is an associate professor in the Department of Design at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. He has previously worked at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, Lund University in Sweden, and Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. Santosh has received awards for his papers in international conferences such as International Conference on Engineering Design, International Conference on Research into Design, and International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education. In addition to working with for-profit companies, he works in close collaboration with not-for-profit sector and social enterprises. His work requires a multidisciplinary approach, integrating knowledge from engineering, design, social science, and psychology. He has published articles in journals such as Design Studies, CoDesign, International Journal of Design, Research in Engineering Design, Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation, She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, etc.