SYSTEMIC DESIGN

UGK 2051 SURYA TEJA DASARI SEMESTER 5

PROJECT THEME
SUSTAINABILITY IN WASTE MANAGEMENT

KEY INSIGHTS
The fundamental principle of waste management, as per my secondary research, is to reduce the amount of
wastes through recycling and to dispose of wastes sanitarily so as not to impair environmental conservation.
VISION Reduce the amount of waste production
within the campus
STATEMENTS Reusing the potential waste components
efficiently
Ensuring effective waste segregation within
the campus premises
Raising Awareness about the Waste
management dynamics within the campus
SYSTEM MAPPING

System flow

Waste Waste Waste

Generation Collection Disposal

https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVPVGWZFE=/
LEVERAGE POINT

WASTE GENERATION

STUDENTS FAILING TO DISPOSE WASTE IN DUSTBINS

WASTE DISPOSAL
“HOW MIGHT WE” STATEMENTS

• How might we ensure awareness and consciousness regarding waste disposal

within the campus for the students so that the students get a more cleaner campus
and the burden on the waste collectors is lessened .
PROJECT VISION

• A Community driven system to enhance the discipline of waste disposal

within the campus
Ideas for change in existing System
 Ideas for new system design
To be deployed as a series of student initiatives organized by a team dedicated for sustainable waste
management within the campus

1 Behavioral change through Graphic 2 Behavioral Change through Information

design Design
Designing Emotional experiences of using a dustbin:
IDENTITY DESIGN of the dustbins, enhancing the Awareness enhancement about the waste disposal dynamics and
visibility of the dustbins. statistical info in the campus through engaging infographics

3 Behavioral Change through Space Design 4 Behavioral Change through Campaign

Design
Choice Architecture in deploying dustbins around the campus space:
keeping in mind the active hotspots of student activity
Designing a campaign that engages and involves the students in
the process of litter collection, which imbibes a sense of
belongingness, responsibility, and decreases the divide between
the workers and the students

The initiatives are systematically planned to involve the design student community, and tackle the problem
of waste in campus using the intellectual and creative resources implicit within the community through
design competitions , motivated by incentives.
Group Project

THE EXPERIMENT

Kachra kaun pheka???

WHAT?

A social experiment aimed at increasing awareness and imbibing consciousness within the student community to ensure rightful
waste disposal in the dustbins and segregation of waste at its source purely by student intervention.

HOW?

For the experiment , the area of focus is the mess which is one of the highest sources of waste production. For every food item
the student purchases, the team labelled it with the student’s name, giving it a particular identity, so that the student is made
conscious of the destination of the waste he/she produces.

The students are not informed about the motive of the name labelling, so that the subjects are not forcibly led to the expected
outcomes of the team.
Group Project

The Execution The Results

ACCOUNTABILITY

Almost all of the students disposed their waste in the

dustbins, because of the personal association that was
established , which imbibed a feeling of accountability
and responsibility towards waste disposal.

CHAIN REACTION

Being a social event, and the omnipresence of labelled

waste all over, and fellow students effectively disposing
waste, the subject is subconsciously motivated to do the
same
Learnings from the module
• Thinking of Systems thinking not merely as a technical supplement to problem solving, but as an
overarching philosophy of having an open and broader perspective, and consideration of multiple
levels of interconnections and relations in a domain within and without.
• The importance of the structural approach of understanding and exploring the multiple facets of a
system (i.e., talking and listening to the system) in order to materialize the findings.
• The prominent role that communicating and building trust between the designer and the
stakeholders plays in systems thinking
• How to break out from the studio approach of passive research into an engaging and dynamic
research that is at the core of Systems Thinking.