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biodesign challenge 2022
Type: Challenge
Duration: january - june'22
Status: Prototyping
Team: Akshita + Kashish + Muskan + Riya
Mentor: Sneha Ravishankar
Project highlights:
Research
Concept Building
Ideation
Building Connections
Speculative Design
3D Renders
brief: The biodesign competition partners university students with scientists, artists, and designers to envision, create, and critique transformational applications in biotech to develop design proposals that utilize the innovative and sustainable application of bio-materials.
domain of intervention: menstruation
period perception:
Earlier in India it began as a means of letting her rest, but over millennia it’s been taken as a justification to imprisonment . Yes, it is a cause for celebration as one transitions towards womanhood.
In our country over 355 million women menstruate within the age of 12 to 50 yrs, where menstruation is a taboo among most societies. The process is impure, the blood is wicked, and the vulva is the abode of evil, yet no
one seems to remember that all are born through this.
Since, requirement of a virgin bride is appealing to our society, insertion in the vagina appears to be a taboo, hence most people utilize sanitary pads instead of menstruation cups or tampons.
concept: introducing underpants which tackles the challenges around menstruation, be it being a taboo, degrading our environment and infecting our vagina and a method that will allow people to donate their menstrual flow with the eventual objective of extracting stem cells (menSCs), therefore contributing to medical science to save our and our genetically related people's lives in the future.
Research & Concept Building
target audience: people who are uncomfortable with inserting, hence use external menstrual products and are willing to preserve their menstrual blood for themselves and genetically related people.
Digital Prototyping