santosh jagtap – Product Development Research Lab

Codesign in resource-limited societies: theoretical perspectives, inputs, outputs and influencing factors

17th February 2022
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Codesign with resource-constrained people living in developing countries is crucial for sustained adoption and use of designed solutions

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Can Design Be Non-paternalistic? Conceptualizing Paternalism in the Design Profession

9th December 2021
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Abstract Paternalism is an instance of someone making a decision on behalf of someone else. A professional designer can exhibit paternalism through conceptualizing, defining, and selecting current or preferable situations or while finalizing outcomes for stakeholders. Paternalism is thus, a critical ethical dimension related to the design profession. The design academy and community must theorize […]

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Final presentations from project course 2 (MT1539) on BTH Experience Day | 2021

9th June 2021
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Project course 2 (MT1539) with students from the Mechanical Engineering programme’s 3rd year delivered their final presentations as pert of BTH Experience Day 2021. This year, mechanical engineering students worked on company-related or entrepreneurial projects that required satisfying user needs and technical functions. They worked on projects involving the design of physical artefacts with innovation […]

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Co-design with marginalised people: designers’ perceptions of barriers and enablers

11th February 2021
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Co-design with marginalised people: designers’ perceptions of barriers and enablers

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Frugal-IDeM: An Integrated Methodology for Designing Frugal Innovations in Low-Resource Settings

24th January 2021
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Abstract People living in low-resource settings at the base of the world income pyramid (i.e. Base of the Pyramid — BOP) face several constraints. To satisfy their unmet needs, integrated frugal innovations are necessary. Several studies, discussed using many names such as ‘design for Base of the Pyramid’, ‘design for development’, ‘product service systems’, ‘frugal […]

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Design, Frugal Innovations and Low-Resource Settings: An Analysis of Five Contextual Aspects

8th January 2021
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Abstract A data analysis method based on artificial neural networks aiming to support cause-and-effect analysis in design exploration studies is presented. The method clusters and aggregates the effects of multiple design variables based on the structural hierarchy of the evaluated system. The proposed method is exemplified in a case study showing Designing frugal innovations is […]

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Forskare ska stötta produktutvecklare i mikroföretag i Tanzania

12th November 2020
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Forskare från BTH ska studera hur människor i Tanzania arbetar med design och utveckling med syftet att öka deras förmåga att designa mer framgångsrika produkter. Projektet stöttas av Vetenskapsrådet och syftar till att stödja mikroföretag i utvecklingsländer.

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BTH PDRL at the DESIGN’20 online conference

9th November 2020
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The pandemic situation put an effective hold on the physical venue in Dubrovnik where the 16th International DESIGN conference was planned before the summer. Now the biannual DESIGN event organised by the Design Society were forced into an online version instead. Being a main forum to exchange experiences and lessons learned about engineering design from […]

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Investigation of the Product Design Process in Informal Microenterprises in Tanzania | 2021-

3rd November 2020
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Investigation of the Product Design Process in Informal Microenterprises in Tanzania

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Design thinking approach and program outline

Shaping wicked problem solvers: innovating education programs through design thinking

12th August 2020
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Abstract: Societies across the globe are facing many unprecedented challenges; climate change, pandemics, and resource depletion, just to name a few. These societal challenges, the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, and companies’ demands about knowledge and skills required from future employees have put pressure on academia to develop suitable education programmes in many disciplines, including product […]

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