Registered Network Participants 28 Oct. 2019

Last name 

First name

Country

Arthur

Maclean

Ghana

CADD, 3D printing,  Sustainable Infrastructure , Collaboration, Innovation

Blessing

Lucienne 

Singapore

Boujut

Jean-Francois

France

Collaborative design - open design - VR and AR for collaboration - human centred design

I have had experience with Africa for 10 years and collaborated with Burkina and Benin institutions. I think your approach is very "northern country centric" and we should be very cautious and try not to bring our own mental models to this continent. Sustainable development is of course very important but the actual problems in Africa is simply "développement" I mean food, security, sanitary. Sustainability is a problem of the rich... 

Besides Africa is a continent with a huge diversity. I fear that the language barrier will limit to English speaking countries in Africa. The Maghreb and western Africa are put aside.

Another important question is money. Most of these countries are poor and the academics even more... how do we attract them and allow them to participate???

Branya

John

Kenya

Daoust

Camilla

Denmark

Dinda

Gabriel

Kenya 

DOSS

SRINATH

Botswana

Very Much Motivated To Participate In Design for Global Sustainable Development Workshop / AFRICA-DESIGN Network.

Duijm

Marianne

Danmark

Founder of the start-up called Fruit-Up, up cycling agricultural waste from the cashew industry in Africa. 

Edoimioya

Nosakhare

United States

Manufacturing infrastructure and local production; sustainable agriculture practices, solar energy

I've been working with a social enterprise known as EnergieRich based in Burkina Faso for about 3 years and we're creating a business around a solar-powered poultry egg incubator we developed. We are concluding the prototypes of the incubator and designing methods for teaching local experts about its manufacturing.

Effah Kaufmann

Elsie

Ghana

Biomedical Devices, Biomaterials and Engineering Education 

You may reach out to my collaborator, Godfrey Mills at gmills@ug.edu.gh

Eneberg

Magnus

Sweden

GODJO

Thierry

Bénin

Methods and Tools for Sustainable Development

Participatory Design in African

I earned my Ph. D. in Engineering Design in 2007 at Grenoble Institute of Technology in the Industrial Engineering school and my Habilitation in 2016. My research activities focused on the Participatory Design approach using scenarios based on the use of scenarios for improving local design methods in developing countries. I carried out in Benin many design experiments. I teach innovation methods, Computer-Aided Design and Value Analysis.

Existing collaborations: 1) Grenoble Institute of Technology, Laboratory G-Scop (Sciences pour la conception, l'Optimisation et la Production) 

Suggestions for other contacts: François GIROUX, fgiroux8@gmail.com;

Gosada

Shashikantha

Botswana

Govender

Kruschen

South Africa 

Netherlands 

Greene

Melissa

USA

Systems thinking, design thinking

Hightower

Edward

USA

Hwang

SunMin

U.S.A / South Korea

Irkiso

Adane

Ethiopia

Janhager Stier

Jenny

Sweden

Kannatey-Asibu

Elijah

U.S.

Manufacturing

I have ongoing collaborations with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, and with the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana.

Kiwanuka

Lillian

Uganda

Design education, sustainable design, community enhancement, job creation in community

I have been seeking ways to use design in the development of our communities in Uganda. Having returned there 7 years ago after 20 years in the US where I worked and obtained my degrees in both business (MSA) and interior design (MSC) I found myself facing a wall in how to link the two; I found a system where design was seen as a luxury as opposed to helping and enhancing a community.  So it has been a slow climb. Next, I found that I could not find the skill sets in the community that could deliver what I envision. So slowly the idea of a school, a design school that will allow community growth in the vocational field vs white-collar jobs is what I envision.  An opportunity to empower youth through design education, providing opportunities for self-employment, creating jobs, discovering sustainable options in design vs importing items from the west - using what we have and perhaps providing opportunities for exports. How can I use design to impact the community ?

Kobenan

Kouame Jean-Moïse

Côte d'Ivoire

Komashie

Alexander

UK

Healthcare systems design, Improvement science

I come from Ghana and have an interest in how engineering systems can contribute to healthcare improvement in LMICs and also in engineering education particularly design.

Maponga

Stephen

Botswana

Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Development, Challenge Driven Education, Design Thinking 

I am currently working on a proposal for a Challenge Driven Education project, which will involve students from Botho University, performing community services at Julia Molefe, a local clinic. The clinic is experiencing clerical staff shortages, which puts pressure on medical staff, as they have to perform both record-keeping and medical chores. The result is the long and tiresome queue experience by weak patients. 

The proposal calls for home gown solutions to the local healthcare problem by providing appropriate record-keeping means for the patients and a sustainable framework. 

The students will also be involved in community health promotion. Community health promotion is a process that includes many things at many levels. For example, efforts use multiple strategies, such as providing information about the problem or improving people's access to assistance. They also operate at multiple levels, including individuals, families, and organizations, and through a variety of community sectors, such as schools, businesses, and religious organizations. All of this works together to make small but widespread changes in the health of the community. The goal is to promote healthy behaviors by making them easier to do and more likely to meet with positive reinforcement.

McAloone

Tim

Denmark

Moore

Nigel

Canada

cleantech, energy access, social enterprise & entrepreneurship, user-centric design, use-inspired research, humanitarian engineering, experiential learning

I manage an international research consortium on clean energy access in the developing world: https://ae4h.org/ 

I manage an internship program that places undergraduate student interns (mostly from STEM disciplines) in cutting edge social enterprises that are delivering clean energy solutions in the developing world, particularly in East Africa: https://ae4h.org/projects/qes 

Recent research has included the process of innovation and solutions-development for sustainable development, with a particular focus on university-based educational, research and social enterprise incubation programs: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-63951-2_306-1

Muchiri

Wallace

Kenya

Artificial intelligence

Muchiri

Wallace

Kenya

Mwale

Joseph Thokozani

Zambia

Coupled human and natural systems: water-sensitive urban design

I am a Ph.D. student in the College of Science, Engineering, and Technology at the University of South Africa. My research is rooted in the complex adaptive systems theory by which I am exploring the co-evolutionary dynamics of urban morphology and water metabolism so as to multi-objectively optimize water sensitive urban design towards sustainable urban development in sub-Saharan Africa.

Nilsson

Susanne

Sweden

Product Development. Innovation. Social Innovation.

Norell Bergendahl

Margareta

Sweden

We are working with an initiative named KTH Global Development Hub (GDH) where we together with a selected number of African Universities have developed a model for collaboration. Students from their university and from our travel to each other and work together on societal challenges in challenge-driven courses, the challenges defined to contribute to the 17 UN goals. GDH also includes a number of teacher training modules, offered to support university teachers to work in challenge-driven courses where students from different academic and cultural backgrounds form project teams to propose solutions to challenges defined by stakeholders organisations outside the university.

Nyangweso

Mercy 

Kenya

Nyangweso 

Mercy

Kenya

Obeng

George Yaw

Ghana

Sustainable/Renewable Energy Systems (Solar PV, Bioenergy)

Environment (indoor air emissions PM 2.5, CO and CO2 and climate change)

Engineering Design (Agro-processing machinery development)

I have been teaching the following design courses: HON 394 Design for the developing world, ME 471 Machine tool design, Me 472 Machine shop, and factory design. And have been collaborating with MIT D-lab and GlobalResolve of Arizona State University on design projects in Ghana.

Okwudire

Chinedum

USA

Sustainable manufacturing for the developing world

Omodolor 

Stevedan Ogochukwu 

Spain

Papalambros

Panos

United States

product design, complex engineered systems design, optimization, hybrid-electric vehicles

Rahman

Adam

Ghana

Severson

Ron

US

Shibwabo

Bernard

Kenya

Sienko

Kathleen

United States

Design/design research capacity building; engineering design education; engineering design education research

Tsie

Oscar  Sebetso

Botswana

Turnley

Charlie

US (originally South Africa)

Sustainable design, design for global health, design processes, agile design

wendrich

robert

The Netherlands

Wettergreen

Matthew

United States

I actively work with Malawi Polytechnic and Dar Es Salaam Institute of Technology to build their engineering design programs.

Winful

Herbert

United States

Yawson

Freda

Ghana & US

Human-Centered Design for Development, STEM for social impact and innovation

I would be happy to share my experience designing products with student entrepreneurs in Ghana over the last 5 years or contribute where needed. Cheers

Zarazaga

Jessie

United States

Sustainable infrastructure design in Africa, using GIS and human-centered design