Sustainable & Inclusive Design
Sustainable & Inclusive Design
The Work
These four projects sit at the intersection of industrial design and social responsibility. Each one started from a real need: accessibility, water conservation, rural sanitation, or agricultural efficiency.
The brief in each case was to design something that works in the real world, not the ideal one. Designs that are economically viable to manufacture, simple to install, and meaningful to the people who use them.
Each project was delivered with full technical documentation, prototypes or scale models, and a production plan, ready to be built.
For SOWER TRAILS Civil Association
A bamboo and aluminium product line designed to help young adults with intellectual and mental disabilities develop their potential and autonomy through art-making.
Developed in collaboration with the SOWER TRAILS civil association, the set prioritises ease of grip, accessibility of form, and material warmth. Bamboo brings natural texture and lightness; aluminium provides structural precision where it matters.
The design extends beyond the tools themselves to include a full installation and maintenance guide, ensuring the association can support the product independently over time.
Environmental Design
An environmental project addressing responsible water use, targeting communities where water wastage is a daily and largely invisible problem.
The design brief demanded a modern aesthetic that remained economically viable to manufacture and install, without sacrificing the clarity of its message. Good design as a tool for behaviour change.
Delivered as a complete proposal with technical drawings, a scale model, and a full production plan ready for implementation.
Sanitation Design
A basic sanitation solution for low-income rural populations without access to sewers, running water, or expensive infrastructure.
The system requires no sewerage connection and no water supply. It integrates composting and irrigation potential, turning waste into a resource and making dignified sanitation achievable in contexts where it otherwise wouldn't be.
The challenge was to design something that is simple enough to be built locally, durable enough to last, and considered enough that people would actually use it.
Agricultural Design
A mechanized automation system for seedling sowing, designed for small family agricultural producers who need to work across diverse seed varieties without large capital investment.
The flat-pack design prioritises simple assembly and disassembly, making it accessible in contexts where specialist tools or expertise are not available. The system adapts to different seed types and tray sizes.
Where industrial agriculture has large-scale mechanization, small producers have very little. Spora JRB is an attempt to close that gap, one tray at a time.
