diploma project

Developing a Toolkit for Project Sammaan

Project Sammaan is a collaborative effort involving an academic lab, a design and innovation consultancy firm, and two city governments; aimed at designing, implementing and rigorously testing innovations for shared sanitation facilities in urban slums. It combines principles of design, research and technology to propose a new model for community sanitation, aimed at reducing open defecation and instilling a sense of dignity.

The design and development is for directing interested parties in replicating these user-centric facilities within their contexts, using a design-centric approach. The nature of information itself is complex and varied, leading to diverse iterations and explorations in a continuously evolving process.

In-depth research, stakeholder interviews and rigorous explorations lead to a communication strategy around the toolkit, advocating the need for establishing a human-centred design process. A series of tools (manifested in a set of cards) are developed to make the complexities easier to grasp.

class room project

Project PLUS - Police & Us