Santosh Jagtap

Education

• Ph.D., University of Cambridge, UK

• M.Des., Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Recent experience

Prior to joining IIT Guwahati, Santosh worked as a faculty member at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden and at Lund University, Sweden. He has also worked in the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft, Netherlands. 

Books

• Jagtap, S. (2024). Design and Engineering for Low Resource Settings: A Practical Guide. Springer, ISBN: 978-3-031-66155-6. (Upcoming Book)

• Jagtap, S. and Corsini, L. (2023). Design and Sustainability. MDPI, Switzerland, ISBN: 978-3-0365-83.

Selected Publications

• Jagtap, S. (2024). Design and Engineering for Low Resource Settings: A Practical Guide. Springer, ISBN: 978-3-031-66155-6. (Upcoming Book)

• Opiyo, E., Jagtap, S., Keshwani, S. (2023). Conceptual Design in Informal Metalworking Microenterprises of Tanzania. Sustainability, 15, 986. (download the paper)

• Jagtap, S. (2022). Codesign in Resource-Limited Societies: Theoretical Perspectives, Inputs, Outputs and Influencing Factors, Research in Engineering Design. DOI: 10.1007/s00163-022-00384-1. (download the paper) 

• Corsini, L., Jagtap, S., & Moultrie, J. (2022). Design with and by Marginalized People in Humanitarian Makerspaces, International Journal of Design. 16(2), 91-105. (download the paper) 

• Jagtap, S. (2021). Co-Design with Marginalized People: Designers’ Perceptions of Barriers and Enablers. CoDesign. DOI: 10.1080 / 15710882.2021.1883065.

• Pramod, K., & Jagtap, S. (2021). Can Design be Non-Paternalistic? Conceptualizing Paternalism in Design Profession. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation. 7 (4), 589-610. 

• Jagtap, S. (2021). Frugal-IDeM: An Integrated Methodology for Designing Frugal Innovations in Low-Resource Settings. International Conference on Research into Design, ICoRD 2021, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. (download the paper)  

• Jagtap, S. (2020). Barriers and Enablers in Co-Designing with Marginalized People. International Design Conference – Design 2020. Dubrovnik – Croatia. 

• Jagtap, S. , & Larsson, T. (2019). Resource-Limited Societies, Integrated Design Solutions, and Stakeholder Input. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation , 5 (4), 285-303. (download the paper) 

• Jagtap, S. (2019). Key Guidelines for Designing Integrated Solutions to Support Development of Marginalized Societies. Journal of Cleaner Production, 219C, 148-165. (download the paper) 

• Jagtap, S. (2019). Design and Poverty: A Review of Contexts, Roles of Poor People, and Methods. Research in Engineering Design , 30 (1), 41-62. (download the paper) 

• Jagtap, S. (2019). Design Creativity: Refined Method for Novelty Assessment, International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation, 7 (1-2), 99-115. (download the paper) 

• Jagtap, S. (2018). Shaping Products: Differences Between Expert and Novice Industrial Designers. International Design Conference – Design 2018. Dubrovnik – Croatia. (download the paper) 

•  Jagtap, S. (2018) Intentions and Inspiration in Shaping Visual Appearance of Products: The Practice of Professional Industrial Designers in India, The Design Journal , 21: 1, 85-107. (download the paper) 

• Jagtap, S. , Larsson, A., Warell, A. (2017). Design for Resource-Limited Societies: Informational Behavior of Designers. International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED-17. Vancouver, Canada. 

• Sörensen, C., Warell, A., Jagtap, S. (2017). Material selection – A qualitative case study of five design consultancies . International Conference on Engineering Design, ICED-17. Vancouver, Canada.

• Jagtap, S. (2017). Inspiration in Product Form Design: A Survey of Professional Industrial Designers. Proceedings of ICoRD 2017, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies. Springer Singapore. 

• Jagtap, S. (2017). Attributes and Emotions in Product Form Design: A Survey of Professional Industrial Designers . Proceedings of ICoRD 2017, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies. Springer Singapore.  

• Aranda-Jan, C. B., Jagtap, S., & Moultrie, J. (2016). Towards a framework for holistic contextual design for low-resource settings. International Journal of Design, 10(3), 43-63.

• Jagtap, S., and Jagtap, S. (2015). Aesthetic Design Process: Descriptive Design Research and Ways Forward. ICoRD’15 – Research into Design Across Boundaries. Springer. (download the paper)

• Jagtap, S., Larsson, A., Hiort, V., Olander, E. & Warell, A., (2015) Interdependency between average novelty, individual average novelty, and variety, International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation, 3 (1), 43-60. (download the paper)

• Jagtap, S., Larsson, A., Hiort, V., Olander, E., Warell, A. & Khadilkar, P. (2014). How design process for the Base of the Pyramid differs from that for the Top of the Pyramid. Design Studies, 35 (5): p. 527-558. (download the paper)

• Jagtap, S., Warell, A., Larsson, A., Motte, D., & Hiort, V. (2014). Design Methods and Factors Influencing their Uptake in Product Development Companies: A Review. International Design Conference – Design 2014. Croatia. (download the paper) 

• Jagtap, S., A. Larsson, et al. (2013). Design and development of products and services at the Base of the Pyramid: a review of issues and solutions. International Journal of Sustainable Society, 5(3): 207-231. (download the paper)  

• Jagtap, S., Larsson, A., Hiort, V., Olander, E., Warell, A. & Khadilkar, P. (2013). Fighting Poverty through Design: Comparing Design Processes for the Base and the Top of the World Income Pyramid. International Conference on Engineering Design. Seoul, Korea. 

• Jagtap, S., Larsson (2013). Design of Product Service Systems at the Base of the Pyramid. International Conference on Research into Design, IIT Madras, India. ICoRD’13, Springer. (download the paper) 

• Jagtap, S. and A. Johnson (2011). In-service information required by engineering designers. Research in Engineering Design , 22 (4): 207-221.  (download the paper) 

• Jagtap, S. and A. Johnson (2010). Requirements and use of in-service information in an engineering redesign task: Case studies from the aerospace industry. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 61 (12): pp. 2442–2460. (download the paper)