Area of Interest

Industrial Design, Design for Sustainability, Bio-inspired Design, Medical Product Design

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Education Details

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

PhD
2021

Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft, The Netherlands

MSc, Integrated Product Design
2010

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India

BDes, Industrial Design
2006

List of Projects

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1. Workshop on Design for Sustainability

Funding Agency : Paid by participants
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sharmistha Banerjee
Co-investigator: Dr. Pankaj Upadhyay
Duration/Starting Year: 2025 - 2025
Status: Completed

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2. NPTEL Workshop on Serious Game Design

Funding Agency : Paid by participants
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sharmistha Banerjee
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2025 - 2025
Status: Completed

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3. Workshop on Design for Sustainability

Funding Agency : Paid by participants
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sharmistha Banerjee
Co-investigator: Dr. Pankaj Upadhyay
Duration/Starting Year: 2024 - 2024
Status: Completed

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4. Workshop on Design for Sustainability for Disaster Risk Management

Funding Agency : National Institute of Disaster Management, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sharmistha Banerjee
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2024 - 2024
Status: Completed

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5. Workshop on Design for Sustainability

Funding Agency : Paid by participants
Principal Investigator: Dr. Pankaj Upadhyay
Co-investigator: Dr. Sharmistha Banerjee
Duration/Starting Year: 2023 - 2023
Status: Completed

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6. Study the ease of disassembly for ABB LV products as related to End-of-Life stage of product lifecycle

Funding Agency : ABB Global Industries and Services Private Limited
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sharmistha Banerjee
Co-investigator: Dr. Pankaj Upadhyay
Duration/Starting Year: 2022 - 2023
Status: Completed

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7. the international learning Network of networks on Sustainability

Funding Agency : Erasmus + through Politecnico di Milano
Principal Investigator: Prof. Ravi Mokashi Punekar
Co-investigator: Dr. Sharmistha Banerjee, Dr. Pankaj Upadhyay
Duration/Starting Year: 2016 - 2021
Status: Completed

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8. DIC Thematic Project - Design and Development of a Hand Operated Assam Lemon Fruit Harvester

Funding Agency : Funded by Design Innovation Center Setup by MHRD at Department of Design, IIT Guwahati
Principal Investigator: Dr. Pankaj Baruah (Assam Agricultural University)
Co-investigator: Dr. Sharmistha Banerjee
Duration/Starting Year: 2016 - 2018
Status: Completed

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9. DIC Thematic Project - Design and performance evaluation of solar tunnel dryer for high value agricultural products of NE region

Funding Agency : Design Innovation Center Setup by MHRD at Department of Design, IIT Guwahati
Principal Investigator: Er. Manas Jyoti Barooah (Assam Agricultural University)
Co-investigator: Dr. Sharmistha Banerjee
Duration/Starting Year: 2016 - 2018
Status: Completed

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10. DIC Thematic Project - Design and development of scaleappropriate machine for washing ginger

Funding Agency : Design Innovation Center Setup by MHRD at Department of Design, IIT Guwahati
Principal Investigator: Dr. Pankaj Upadhyay
Co-investigator: Dr. Sharmistha Banerjee, Dr. Sachin Kore
Duration/Starting Year: 2015 - 2019
Status: Completed

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11. Design of a scaleappropriate agricultural machinery for rural Bangladesh

Funding Agency : USAID through International Development Enterprise Bangladesh
Principal Investigator: Dr. Sharmistha Banerjee
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2014 - 2014
Status: Completed

Book Chapter

1. Ramjee, P., Rathi, A., Banerjee, S. (2023). 'Senior Citizens and Smartphones: Identifying User Segments in Urban Middle-Class India'. In: Chakrabarti, A., Singh, V. (eds) Design in the Era of Industry 4.0, Volume 1. ICORD 2023. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 343. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0293-4_38 [July, 2023], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0293-4_38

2. Samanta, S., Banerjee, S., Upadhyay, P. (2023). 'A Bibliometric Analysis of Research in VR and Haptics'. In: Chakrabarti, A., Singh, V. (eds) Design in the Era of Industry 4.0, Volume 1. ICORD 2023. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 343. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0293-4_77 [July, 2023], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0293-4_77

3. Kumar, S., Banerjee, S. (2023). Review of Craft Revival Techniques. In: Chakrabarti, A., Singh, V. (eds) Design in the Era of Industry 4.0, Volume 2. ICORD 2023. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 342. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0264-4_26 [July, 2023], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0264-4_26

4. Ramjee, P., Rathi, A., & Banerjee, S. (2023). Design of User-Friendly Smartphone Settings Configuration and Troubleshooting Features for Indian Senior Citizens. Proceedings of the 35th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, 245–256. doi.org/10.1145/3638380.3638393 [May, 2023], https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3638380.3638393

5. Banerjee, S., Upadhyay, P., Punekar, R.M. (2022). ‘Designerly Ways’ for Sustainable Livelihoods. In: Melles, G.B. (eds) Designing Social Innovation for Sustainable Livelihoods. Design Science and Innovation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8452-4_4 [February, 2022], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8452-4_4

6. dos Santos, A., Vezzoli, C., Garcia Parra, B., Molina Mata, S., Banerjee, S., Kohtala, C., . . . Xia, N. (2021). Distributed Economies. In C. Vezzoli, B. Garcia Parra, & C. Kohtala (Eds.), Designing Sustainability for All: The Design of Sustainable Product-Service Systems Applied to Distributed Economies (pp. 23-50). Cham: Springer International Publishing. [May, 2021], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66300-1_2

7. Vezzoli, C., Petrulaityte, A., Banerjee, S., Upadhyay, P., & Punekar, R. M. (2021). Designing S.PSS and DE: New Horizons for Design. In C. Vezzoli, B. Garcia Parra, & C. Kohtala (Eds.), Designing Sustainability for All: The Design of Sustainable Product-Service Systems Applied to Distributed Economies (pp. 85-121). Cham: Springer International Publishing. [May, 2021], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66300-1_4

8. Munakala, Sree Mahit, Chetan Manda, and Sharmistha Banerjee. 2021. "The Infinity Process: A Design Framework for Interdisciplinary Problem-Solving." In, 419-28. Singapore: Springer Singapore. [April, 2021], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0119-4_34

9. Sehji, U., & Banerjee, S. (2021) 'Campaign Design to Nudge Men in Public Spaces in Order to Reduce the Crime Rate Against Women'. Singapore: Springer Singapore, pp. 339-349. [May, 2021], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0084-5_27

10. Hassan, M. N., & Banerjee, S. (2021) 'Mindmaps-Based Tool for Planning and Structuring Design Research Papers'. Singapore: Springer Singapore, pp. 587-593. [April, 2021], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0119-4_47

11. Punekar, R.M., Banerjee, S. and Upadhyay, P., 2020. Design for Sustainability—Collaborative Learning and Dissemination at IIT Guwahati, Assam. In Sustainability Awareness and Green Information Technologies (pp. 479-494). Springer, Cham. [September, 2020], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47975-6_20

12. Banerjee, Sharmistha, Pankaj Upadhyay, and Ravi Mokashi Punekar. "Contextualising Sustainable Product-Service Design Methods for Distributed Economies of India." Designing Sustainability for All - 3rd Lens World Distributed Conference. Eds. Ambrosio, Marcelo and Carlo  vezzoli. 1 ed. Vol. 1. Milano, Italy: Edizioni POLI.design, 2019. 270-75. Print. [April, 2019], https://lensconference3.org/images/program/VOLUME1.pdf

13. Majumdar, Prarthana & Banerjee, Sharmistha & Mahendra, Purvish & Pundir, Vidushi & Agarwal, Simran & Shukla, Suneet & Chowdhury, Ankit & Diehl, Jan Carel & Engelen, Jo. (2019). "LaMPS - ‘Designerly ways’ for sustainable Distributed Economy". Designing Sustainability for All - 3rd Lens World Distributed Conference. Eds. Ambrosio, Marcelo and Carlo Vezzoli. 1 ed. Vol. 1. Milano, Italy: Edizioni POLI.design, 2019. 245-50. Print. [April, 2019], https://lensconference3.org/images/program/VOLUME1.pdf

14. Banerjee, Sharmistha. "Pura Framework - a Model for Distributed Economy for India." Designing Sustainability for All - 3rd Lens World Distributed Conference. Eds. Ambrosio, Marcelo and Carlo Vezzoli. 1 ed. Vol. 1. Milano, Italy: Edizioni POLI.design, 2019. 265-69. Print. [April, 2019], https://lensconference3.org/images/program/VOLUME1.pdf

15. Banerjee, S., Upadhyay, P., Punekar, R.M. (2019). Teaching Design for Sustainability for Socioeconomic Ecosystems—Three Case Studies. In: Chakrabarti, A. (eds) Research into Design for a Connected World. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 135. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5977-4_78 [January, 2019], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5977-4_78

16. Majumdar, P., Banerjee, S., Diehl, JC., Van Engelen, J.M.L. (2019). Connected Us! How Social Motives Determine DIY Behaviorism in Rural Base of the Pyramid Communities. In: Chakrabarti, A. (eds) Research into Design for a Connected World. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 134. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5974-3_70 [January, 2019], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5974-3_70

17. Majumdar, P., Banerjee, S., Diehl, JC., van Engelen, J.M.L. (2019). Motivation for Do-It-Yourself in Rural Base of the Pyramid Communities and the Changing Landscape. In: Chakrabarti, A. (eds) Research into Design for a Connected World. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 135. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5977-4_52 [January, 2019], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5977-4_52

18. ​Shiva Ji, Sharmistha Banerjee, and Ravi Punekar Mokashi. "Assessment of GRIHA and LEED on the parameters of Sustainable Design and Development of Buildings". In Research into Design for Communities, Volume 2: Proceedings of Icord 2017, edited by Amaresh Chakrabarti and Debkumar Chakrabarti, 665-77. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. [February, 2017], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3521-0_15

19. Jamil, Needa., Vysak, A. S., Parihar, Aditya, and Sharmistha Banerjee. "Understanding the Hope Harbingers –ASHA, the women foot soldiers of India’s National Rural Health Mission." In Research into Design for Communities, Volume 2: Proceedings of Icord 2017, edited by Amaresh Chakrabarti and Debkumar Chakrabarti, 665-77. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017 [February, 2017], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3521-0_17

20. Majumdar, Prarthana, and Sharmistha Banerjee. "The Challenges to Sustainable Growth of the Micro Scale Kuhila Craft Industry in India." In Research into Design for Communities, Volume 2: Proceedings of Icord 2017, edited by Amaresh Chakrabarti and Debkumar Chakrabarti, 665-77. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. [February, 2017], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3521-0_23

21. Majumdar, Prarthana, Shiva Ji, and Sharmistha Banerjee. "Consumer Preferences and Value Proposition Disconnect—Assam Rattan and Bamboo Furniture Industry." In Research into Design for Communities, Volume 1: Proceedings of Icord 2017, edited by Amaresh Chakrabarti and Debkumar Chakrabarti, 665-77. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2017. [February, 2017], https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3518-0_58

22. T, Jithin Krishna C, Yellamelli Pallavi, and Sharmistha Banerjee. Exploring Material Selection Using Intangible and Sensorial Properties. Edited by Aneesha Sharma and Jamuna Rajeswaran. 1st International Conference on Creativity and Cognition in Art and Design (ICCCAD). Bangalore: Bloomsbury India, 2017. [March, 2017]

Journal Publications

1. Gharate, T., Karanwad, T., Deka, M. K., Banerjee, S., & Banerjee, S. (2024). Comparative Life Cycle Assessment and Pharmaceutical Validations of Directly Compressed versus Additively Manufactured Tablets. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.4c00258 [May, 2024], https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.iecr.4c00258

2. Banerjee, Sharmistha, and Ravi Mokashi Punekar. 2020. “A Sustainability-Oriented Design Approach for Agricultural Machinery and Its Associated Service Ecosystem Development.” Journal of Cleaner Production, April. doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121642. [April, 2020], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.121642

Conference Publications

1. ​Munakala, S. M., Manda, C., and Banerjee, S., 2021. Tackling anger in children with hearing impairment. Paper presented at the ‘Designing for children' with focus on 'Play and Learn', Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India [April, 2021]

2. Arushi Singh and Sharmistha Banerjee, "'Spill in My Gills’ - a Board Game Design to Increase Oil Spill Awareness among School Children." Cumulus Mumbai 2015: In a planet of our own - a vision of sustainability with focus on water, Mumbai, 2015 [December, 2015]

3. Sowmya Tiwari, Neha, Utkarsh Mishra, and Sharmistha Banerjee, "Education for Sustainability- Cultural Diversity: Imparting Cultural Knowledge through Activity Based-Democratic Participation." Suscon, IIM Shillong, 2015.​ [December, 2015]

4. Banerjee, Sharmistha, "Case Study - Giving Voice to the Farmers, Machine Operators, Local Service Providers and Small Scale Manufacturers in Designing Scale-Appropriate Agro-Machinery for Rural Bangladesh." ICCIG3 2015, Ahmedabad, 2015 [January, 2015]

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Current

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Shivram Kumar
Title of project /Area of research: Pedagogic pathways to sustainable development of crafts and craftsperson
Email: shivramkumar@iitg.ac.in
Duration: 2021

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Aradhna Moktan
Title of project /Area of research: Community-Based Disaster Risk Management for Sustainable Settlement Design Framework
Email: m.aradhna@iitg.ac.in
Duration: 2021

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Baishalee Sonowal
Title of project /Area of research: A Design support for assessing and designing products for environmentally sustainable end-of-life performance.
Email: baishalee@iitg.ac.in
Duration: 2022

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Pankaj Kavidayal
Title of project /Area of research: Role of women in disaster preparedness
Email: p.kavidayal@iitg.ac.in
Duration: 2023

Completed

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Prarthana Majumdar, Ph.D
Title of project /Area of research: Design for Motivation to Facilitate the Adoption of Assisted Self-production in Emerging Economies (Rural and Semi-Urban Context)
Email: prarthana.majumdar@iitg.ac.in
Duration: 2019-2024