Creating Flexible Workspaces


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Creator/Artist: Saourabh Pateriya

Category: Interaction Design

Document: P1 Project

Batch: 2014-2016

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Pratap KS


Detailed Description

The team from Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay comprising of Edu Mohan, Jaison Jacob, Naveed Ahmed and Sourabh Pateriya visited Institute of Ergonomics (IAD), Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, on a Student Exchange Program during May-June 2013. IAD specializes and carries out continuous research in the field of ergonomics with focus on vehicle ergonomics, work organization and production ergonomics. During the 6-week exchange programme, the team worked on a project and various workshops. While the project was three weeks long, the workshops usually were as short as two or three days. The workshops were randomly distributed over the 6-week period. Students from Interaction Design – Jaison, Naveed & Sourabh – worked on the project, the details of which are mentioned below. The project, Creating flexible workspaces in the IAD context, was completed by the team from Interaction Design over a period of three weeks. The workshops included learning new methods of decision making, design explorations, designing games, attending talks and providing design recommendations to a variety of project modules. The content in this report has been structured and divided based on the projects and workshops done. They have been ordered according to the duration and amount of work done during each assignment