Making the Capability Approach Accessible to Designers – Report of an On-going Exploration

Beyond Design; Inclusive innovations and well-being

Nature inspired design: Strategies towards sustainability

Current design practices focus on eco-efficiency as the main approach in the field of sustainable product development. This approach mainly aims at improving existing products and services. Environmental product performance can be greatly improved using ecoefficiency but in many cases the improvements are incremental. Furthermore, the overall...

Exploring the influence of design culture on ICT healthcare product and service design for rural China

Design culture is usually considered as one of the important aspects that influence designers’ decisions and actions, especially in Design for Base of the Pyramid projects including ICT Healthcare Product Design in Rural China (IHDRC). There are two research questions in this issue: what are the cultural factors and how these factors influence...

New Market, New Challenge, New Opportunity (1): Overview of China rural healthcare & Design methodology

China has a largest population in the world (1.3Billion) and 0.9 Billion is rural population. Most of rural people earn less than US$3/day, and they are called “Base of the economic pyramid (BoP)”. Compared with high level market, BoP is a new market, which means a low individual profit, but a large population. This paper discusses the...

New Market, New Challenge, New Opportunity (2): User Context Research

China has a largest population in the world (1.3Billion) and 0.9 Billion is rural population. Most of rural people earn less than US$3/day, and they are called “Base of the economic pyramid (BoP)”. A new research project has been initiated on “The Healthcare Design for China Rural BoP” to the PhD of first author. This paper is about one part of...