Print Email Facebook Twitter Approaching design for development from a capability perspective Title Approaching design for development from a capability perspective Author Mink, A. Van der Marel, F. Parmar, V.S. Kandachar, P.V. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Design Engineering Date 2015-12-31 Abstract To improve the well-being of disadvantaged and marginalized populations by product design, deep contextual insight is required. However, literature does not specify which topics to discuss or which questions to ask. To address this issue, we used Sen’s capability approach to develop question categories and adopted a semi-structured interview approach called the Opportunity Detection Kit. This kit has been tested by evaluating the impact of the Philips Chulha in rural South India. By using the kit, a comprehensive picture could be drawn about the participants’ lives, which indicated opportunities for product improvement. The integration of the capability approach and product design therefore seems to be promising. Subject capability approachdesign for developmentproduct designwell-being To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:059e18cf-ed01-4073-9354-bbf67861ce50 Publisher Current Science Association ISSN 0011-3891 Source Current Science: a fortnightly journal of research, 109(9)2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights (c) 2015 The Authors Files PDF 322608.pdf 7.21 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:059e18cf-ed01-4073-9354-bbf67861ce50/datastream/OBJ/view