Our common frugal future:

creating a culture of distributed and inclusive Innovation

based manufacturing

anil k gupta, Honey Bee Network, IIMA and SRISTI, NIF, anilg.sristi.org, anilgb@gmail.com

Honey Bee Network

founded in 1987-1988

A nameless, faceless innovator or traditional knowledge

holder comes into contact with the Network and gets an identity,

voice, visibility and viability of its sustainable vision .

Expanding the Horizon of Excellence

Frugal

Flexible

Friendly

Elegant

Design can be simple

But devoid of

drudgery

creativity, compassion, communication and collaboration

anil

Honey Bee Network

www.Sristi.org/anilg

Autopoeisis at grassroots for

inclusive development

creativity, compassion,

communication and

collaboration

Frugal, flexible, & fellowship

manufacturing • Decentralised, distributed, and diversified

manufacturing

• accessible, affordable, available and

adaptable

• Each component has fatigue factor and is

destined for multiple lifecycles

• Modular, meaningful and malleable design

From assam to gujarat: learning across barriers of time, space, sectors and social

segments

Low Cost Wind mill Mehtar Hussain and Mushtaq Ahmad, Assam Over 35 units installed in salt farming regions of Gujarat to improve livelihood of poor salt farmers

New heuristics: maximizing output per unit of time and smoothening the flow are not always sustainable Innovation by Mehtar Husain and Mushtaq Ahmed from

Assam to Gujarat

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70

Eur

o

Stronger, durable version, 900 euro,

saves diesel worth 700 euro in one

season of salt making

Internet of Things ( IOT) to Internet of things, thoughts, and feelings (IOTTF): pets, plants and people

Learning platforms from concrete to abstract

1) Artefactual - as a replication of solution level

2) Analogic - metaphor to inspire

3) Heuristic - as a model or principle

4) Gestalt - configurational level

Gupta, 2012, Own compilation

Information/Knowledge/Wisdom

Innovation Playground

Inside out

High Low

High

Low

DBDB Sponge

Pollinator ostrich

Outside in

Dil bada

dimaag bada

Taxonomy of designs for

development

Shalini’s grandfather uses a walker. But she noticed that he could only use the walker comfortably while walking on a level surface. Shalini came up with the idea of the modified walker with adjustable legs.

Modified walker with adjustable legs

Sha l in i Kumar i , c l a s s 8 , then

Design that destroys inertia and enhance inclusion:

Inclusive Design

Design that repurposes skills, resources and institutions:

rejuvenating design

mngrea

Design that redefines the context, so that content changes:

disruptive and embedded design

Children: Sink to source

Design that recalibrates the moral compass:

Gratitude and empathetic Design

Standards of public amenities: schools without toilets in Delhi

Design that serves unmet social needs through new service models:

Sufficiency Design

DIY or buy from me

Design that make us sensitive to the needs of future generation: circular

and sustainability design

Construction with concrete or lime

Designs that make us indifferent to the needs of others:

insular design

Gestalt of Sustainability

Innovation is simple yet so obscure roots of inertia

If a person is sitting on the chair in a wrong posture, an alarm will start ringing and not stop until the person corrects the posture. The height of the chair can also be adjusted using a handle.

Posture correcting chair

Kulsoom Rizvi, 5, Muzaffarnagar, UP & Tarun Anand, 10, Hardoi, UP

Arnab, west bengal

Affan Siddiqui, a class 9 student from The Indian School, TitI marg, New Delhi, observed that normally public water taps have only one opening to draw water and people have to wait in a long queue for their turn. So he suggested an innovative approach to water supply by attaching pipes to the main tap like ‘tap-root system’, so that everyone is able to receive water. He also suggested knee caps for people who cannot walk and do not have the proper equipment for walking and have to drag their bodies. He proposed the provision of cheap portable sewing machines to slum families for making clothes for underprivileged children.

A public innovation for public use Jharkhand

Learning from multiple sources, levels, and channels:

Future sources of learning, creativity and innovation would not be

restricted to formal boundaries of organisations.

Polycentric Learning from multiple sources, levels, and channels:

Dynamics of small town, small institutions, sub cultures

Lessons from www.techpedia.in by sristi.org

Innovations will emerge from big minds in small places, young people, even less trained

ones

www.techpedia.in

• recently a new initiative techpedia.in, (a portal by SRISTI ( sristi.org) pooling 180,000 engineering projects by 550k students from over 600 institutions) etc., engaging with youth in the one of the youngest country

•

Organizing awards for mobilizing minds

• Can we learn from Gandhi, pound 7700 award in 1929? How many awards DRDO has announced for engaging young minds and start-ups?

• Distributed problems solving: each vertical should throw challanges for UG/PG projects to thousands of students, techpedia.sristi.org can help

Birac-sristi gyti

• 15 fellowships to students of Rs 15 lac each

• 100 fellowships of one lac each

GYTI awards given at Rashtrapati Bhavan, as a part of Festival of Innovation, March 12-18, 2016

Shanu sharma: vardan, iitk

Frugal Innovation: Dhruv, student, Gujarat

Has any big company given you a fridge

also provides hot water,

keeps food warm and consumes less electricity?

Dynamics of client need assessment

assurance for moving ahead

low high

low

Capacity

Unfelt, apathy, Assisted Articulation of need gap

Innovation, self-design, entrepreneurial articulation

Engagement for demand driven delivery and co- creation

High

Taxonomy of innovative solutions

ASSURANCE

high low

high

Capacity

Low

bridging the Need gap

need enhancement

need elimination

need transformation

Shaping Frugal future requires

working sometimes without

templates:

Integration of different streams of thought and action require incorporation,

assimilation and adaptation of the strengths of each sub-system

Design that fosters diversity

and culture of creativity

status and skills are not always linked: distributed leadership delegation upwards, sideways and downwards.

Creating networks:

No one organization is likely to possess sufficient information or knowledge to enable it to achieve its goals

Few Variations of

Bullet Santi / Handio

Boundary needs to become permeable

Mapping wind corridors, spotting prayer flags

What are stairs used for: climbing around, into each other’s

heart: horizontal bonding between formal and informal sector,

science and spaces

Creativity counts Knowledge matters Innovations transform

Incentives inspire ( not just individual, but also collective, not just material,

but also non-material)

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