Pro Bono Career Summary
Focus on the remote, the rural and the poorly served
Dr Soumitri Varadarajan is an Industrial Designer working in the area of patient-focused product and service design and development.
Formulated in 1994, framed as Design in the Public Domain, he has practiced effective altruism as research from within university ecologies in the form of embedded research projects that explore precise ideologies of affordance.
Privileging the pro bono, enshrining a research commitment to seeing projects through to community ownership, he enacts these people-engaged transformative projects through the three stages of design and build [1], then operated through the years to make sustainable[2], and finally the transfer of the viable ecology to new owners/ custodians [3]. His work focuses upon realizing the agency of the marginalised, the re-establishment of the primacy of the key beneficiary- individuals in the community - and upon generating tools (products and services) that are significantly for the use of and by the community.
Dr Varadarajan has 25 career outputs, including 2 co-authored books, 4 book chapters and 19 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals and outlets for his field. He has received an international award for the delivery of a community-engaged project and 4 awards for work focused on enhancing the agency of the individuals in a community. Dr Varadarajan has served on steering committees of the United Nations (UNEP) focussed on design in the environmental context. He currently supervises 6 PhD students and has supervised 16 PhD students to completion.
Formulated in 1994, framed as Design in the Public Domain, he has practiced effective altruism as research from within university ecologies in the form of embedded research projects that explore precise ideologies of affordance.
Privileging the pro bono, enshrining a research commitment to seeing projects through to community ownership, he enacts these people-engaged transformative projects through the three stages of design and build [1], then operated through the years to make sustainable[2], and finally the transfer of the viable ecology to new owners/ custodians [3]. His work focuses upon realizing the agency of the marginalised, the re-establishment of the primacy of the key beneficiary- individuals in the community - and upon generating tools (products and services) that are significantly for the use of and by the community.
Dr Varadarajan has 25 career outputs, including 2 co-authored books, 4 book chapters and 19 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals and outlets for his field. He has received an international award for the delivery of a community-engaged project and 4 awards for work focused on enhancing the agency of the individuals in a community. Dr Varadarajan has served on steering committees of the United Nations (UNEP) focussed on design in the environmental context. He currently supervises 6 PhD students and has supervised 16 PhD students to completion.