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Design and the Resolution of Grand Challenges

Despite the Indian government spending close to Rs1,250 billion on water and sanitation projects in the last 20 years, 1.2billion Indians live without Toilets.

About 4 million people in the world die because of Indoor Air Pollution every year. About a million die in India alone.

Home Toilets

Vaccine Delivery

Inspite of a rise in government spending on public health, there is an absence of tools that can enable nurse midwives to deliver vaccination services efficiently and hygienically in rural and remote low-resource environments.

Cookstoves

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ANM finds it difficult to carry vaccine carrier box to multiple session sites along with other required paraphernalia.

Apart from all the equipments for vaccine administration, registers and record keeping task pose a challenge to workspace management.

All the elements used for vaccine administration are spread out on the work surface leading to a chaotic environment.

Vaccine Delivery: Bio-Medical Inventory

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Working with 2 chairs with inventory spread-out in a disorganized manner on the second chair.

Supporting registers with the armrest and one knee in a single chair infrastructure.

Record keeping on the ground leads to ergonomically stressful postures.

Stretching un-ergonomically to access stored inventory.

Vaccine Delivery: Anti-Ergonomics

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Vaccine Delivery: Seeing Like a Designer

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Concept: Vaccine Delivery Kit

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Concept: Vaccine Delivery Kit

DIY Assembly

Local Craftwork

Industrial Processes

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Concept: Vaccine Delivery Kit

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Source: Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves

67% Indian households depend on fuels like wood, coal and dung for cooking, (Dalberg).

Inhalation of fumes emitted by inefficient traditional cookstoves causes respiratory infections, chronic diseases, lung cancer, cataracts resulting in substantially reduced lives, (WHO).

Cookstoves: An Open Problem Statement

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Cookstoves: A Solution without a Problem? Or a Product without Demand?

A collection of improved cookstoves. Source: International Centre for Energy, Environment & Development (ICEED)

Several government and non-government initiatives have been introduced since the 1980s.

Yet, 62% of the Indian rural households still use Traditional Cookstoves and only 4% households use Improved Cookstoves, (Dalberg).

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The Blue Diversion Toilet created by Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) won the title of Most Innovative Project (Europe/West Asia) by the International Water Association.

A toilet that produces biological charcoal, minerals, and clean water created by Loughborough University, United Kingdom.

Home Toilets: The Ultimate Solution without a Problem

Concept toilet with enhanced user experience and new feature sets such as inbuilt water supply, increased ventilation.

Defunct toilet with the pan clogged with jute bags and other household scrap in a house in Pulhwari block, Patna (Bihar).

Home Toilets: Productizing a Home Function

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Indian Institutes of Management, 1961

Designers versus Decision Makers

National Institute of Design, 1961

Indian Institutes of Technology,1951

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Startup Tunnel Launches January 4, 2015

Jatin ModiCEO at FrogIdeas, a Digital Strategy and Marketing Firm

Sourabh AroraFounder and CEO at Airwoot

Sachin GaurMentor at MixOrg

Namrata MehtaDirector – Innovation, Center for Knowledge Societies

Startup Tunnel at Vihara Innovation Campus

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‘Making’ = Product Innovation = Designing Product + Designing Value Chain

The Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation

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Making Leading Change

Innovate Build Lead

A New Kind of Curriculum for an Innovation Society

Value Chain Design

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Segment Theory

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Development of Startup Concept

Workshops

Situation within Working Environment

Year Long Work Study

New Pedagogy: Learn by Doing

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Work - Study in a Startup Ecology

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Faculty Cloud

Working Professionals (HR, Marketing, Finance, Accounts, Legal)

Recent FoundersEarly Stage

InvestorsFunders

Development Sector Professionals

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- Workshops (not courses)

- Open Study Group (not seminars)

- Blogs (not papers)

- Mentorship Sessions

- Events

New Delivery Mechanism

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Workshops (not courses)

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Accessories for lamp decoration at Chawri Bazaar Market, Delhi

Raw material bought from the market for making lamp

Innovation <> Design

Lights and plastic material shops in the market

Different types of glass material used for making lamp 24

Innovation <> Design

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“I think you’re being rather harsh with us in your feedback. After all we’re engineers -- we’ve never really made anything!”

- Satya M. Vinnakota

Innovation <> Design

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Adianta students, staff, and faculty members use PagalGuy and Campus Diaries to blog their experiences at the ASLI school.

Blogs (not papers)

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Mentorship Sessions

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“I have many friends who have done MBAs from top business schools in India but most of them are clueless about what value has MBA added to their life… ...they lack even bsic self-realization of what they want to do in their life.”

- Nikhil Bohra, ASLI Student (2014)

● Co-founded Cattle Mettle, a low-cost cattle feed based on an innovative formula.

● Associated with a US based startup Wello Water.

● Working on a healthcare app aims to raise user awareness levels on prescription medication and chemical alternatives.

The Company of Innovators

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Vihara Study Group

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Startup Weekend

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Design Public 5

Halloween 2014

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Ravan: 2014

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Adianta School of Learning and Innovation - 2013

Himangshu MohammadSugataLee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Hong Kong

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Graduates 2013

"If you really want to free yourself from the clutches of conformity, and actually want to start seeing, thinking and doing awesome things for yourself and the world, Adianta is where you belong.”

- Mohammad Qureshi

● Mohammed studied Aeronautial Engineering and Psychology at The University of Glasgow, U.K.

● He joined Adianta School of Innovation and Learning in 2013 as the philosophy and purpose of Adianta closely resonated with him as he was attempting to do something very similar in a K-12 school environment.

● His interest in child development and psychology inspired him to found – Intelaeon and Pleolabs.

● He is doing internship at Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Hong Kong.

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Global Network of Innovation Schools

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