AWARD YEAR
2019
CATEGORY
Body
GOALS
Life On Land
KEYWORDS
sleeping, mosquitos, homelessness
COUNTRY
India
DESIGNED BY
Arpan Maiti studied Product design at the National institute of design at Ahmedabad, India & presently is a Sr. industrial designer with Samsung design studio in Delhi, India. With over a decade of experience in the realm of digital home appliances & smartphones, he has created & commercialized designs with unique value propositions aligned to mainly India insights with global relevance from research findings. Some of these have been high selling & awarded globally with design patents filed to secure their core value.
Having co-worked with global design teams on projects with key focus on SW Asia centric ideation, 3D modelling/design detailing & mockup/prototype development, he looks forward to deliver more success stories.
He firmly believes good design is an outcome of thorough research and empathy towards the user and most likely translates to good business.
WEBSITE
http://asiadesignprize.com/exhibition/575
SLEEP CASE
A personal ventilated enclosure for the homeless who deserve adequate good sleep like everybody.
Everyone deserves good adequate sleep to stay healthy irrespective of difficult living conditions arising due to extreme poverty. Its the time where mind and body is at an absolute passive state ignorant of anything happening around. The 'Sleep Case' is compact low cost bean shaped ventilated enclosure for homeless poor on the streets outdoors who rightfully deserve a comfortable sleep. With contrasting hot & cold weather throughout the year & mosquitoes/insects & stray animals in surroundings, they need a personal enclosure to feel safe and cozy. Ideally this could be a government initiative to address the plight of deprived homeless people and manufactured by funds for development of people & society. During winters they will keep warm in the ventilated enclosure with woolens while in hot summers they could enjoy breeze by switching on the solar powered fan on top which is charged during daytime and stored in a light battery pack in lid.