D-Lab: Development Projects & Trips

Introduction

Possible introduction about D-Lab: Development projects and travel here.

2018

Botswana

Improvements to existing technologies from the IDDS Botswana 2018 summit, and primary school curriculum creation.
Community Partner: These Hands

Colombia

Follow-up to IDDS Climate Change Adaptation and IDDS New Coastal Territories projects, and workshops at C-Innova
Community Partner: C-Innova

Guatemala

Work on projects related to gasifier stove design and pellet manufacturing, improvements to sanitation strategy for Mosan, and collaboration with university students in a D-Lab-like environment.
Community Partners: Link4, Universidad del Valle Guatemala, Mosan

India & Nepal

Site visits, modeling, and installation of preliminary insulation systems in Nepal and India for passive home heating.
Community Partner: MIT D-Lab Research

Uganda

Youth STEM workshops with Makerere University and TEWDI in Soroti.
Community Partner: TEWDI Uganda

2017

Botswana

Community Partner: These Hands

Colombia

Community Partner: C-Innova

Guatemala

Community Partners: Link4, Universidad del Valle Guatemala

India & Nepal

Community Partners: JWAFS/MIT Mechancial Engineering/MIT D-Lab

Kenya

Community Partners: BrightGreen Renewable Energy, Foondi Workshops

Uganda

Community Partners: TEWDI Uganda, Makarere University

Topics

D-Lab: Development

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Sophia Chen: It’s our duty to make the world better through empathy, patience, and respect

News | May 28, 2024 | Nancy Adams | MIT D-Lab

MIT D-Lab

Sophia Chen: It’s our duty to make the world better through empathy, patience, and respect

How MIT D-Lab and Perkins empower kids through inclusive design

News | Mar 27, 2024 | Perkins School for the Blind

Perkins School for the Blind

How MIT D-Lab and Perkins empower kids through inclusive design

MIT D-Lab students collaborate with adaptive design center in Mexico

The members of the MIT D-Lab student project team (back row, left to right) Ian Rosado, Bilal Daqqah, Libby Hsu, Penelope Herrero-Marques, Shruthi Shekar, and Nour Al Maalouf, together with Perkins staff Emelia Hernandez Payan (front left) and Ernesto Santana Palma (front right) and Executive Director of Perkins International Katie Holland (front center), display the sequence of prototypes they designed to create a low-cost bathtub for children with disabilities. Photo: Courtesy of the Perkins Schoo

News | Apr 12, 2023 | Danna Lorch | Office of the Associate Provost for International Activities

MIT News

MIT D-Lab students collaborate with adaptive design center in Mexico

TILT: Meeting humanitarian needs through technology

Tilt, a wheelchair attachment for negotiating stairs that is inexpensive, universal, lightweight, and safe.

News | Mar 26, 2021 | MIT India

MIT India

TILT: Meeting humanitarian needs through technology

Elaine Kung '15 awarded $5,000 by MIT Tau Beta Pi to improve design of compost toilets

Elaine Kung '15 (second from left) and D-Lab instructor Libby Hsu (far right) with other members of the MIT and Salvadoran team in front of a newly completed compost toilet. In August, with support from MIT Tau Beta Pi, Kung will continue work she began with a D-Lab team on the redesign of a compost toilet for the Salvadoran rural health organization ASAPROSAR. Photo: Courtesy of MIT D-Lab.

News | Jun 10, 2015 | Nancy Adams

MIT News

Elaine Kung '15 awarded $5,000 by MIT Tau Beta Pi to improve design of compost toilets

The "Kutimuy" context: fostering a circular material economy in Cochabamba

Shadowing an Ecorecolectora while picking up materials from partnered businesses. Photo: Courtesy of Carola Ortuno

Blog | Feb 16, 2024 | Daud Shad (MIT, MCP ’24) and Gigi Sung (Harvard, MUP ’24)

MIT D-Lab

The "Kutimuy" context: fostering a circular material economy in Cochabamba

Designing dreams: an unforgettable journey with refugee youth in Athens

Blog | Feb 15, 2024 | Jad Abou Ali, Adan Abu Naaj, Ellie Han, Manal Zia, Chole Smith and Naman Sharma

MIT D-Lab

Designing dreams: an unforgettable journey with refugee youth in Athens

Building bamboo houses in India - An IAP Diary

The process of splitting bamboo. Photo: Ashley Yang

Blog | Feb 13, 2024 | Brandon Worrell, Eileen Zhang, Ashley Yang, Hien Le

MIT D-Lab

Building bamboo houses in India - An IAP Diary

We like to move it move it (in Madagascar): Testing a water vapor condensing chamber

The D-Lab team at the testing site in Ambovombe, Madagascar, alongside mentors Harry Chaplin (Tatirano) and Karl Zimmerman (UBC), as well as collaborators from NGO Tatirano and the University of Antananarivo (L'Ecole Supérieure Polytechnique d'Antananarivo (ESPA)). Photo: Karl Zimmerman

Blog | Jan 31, 2024 | Sophia Chen, Lilly Heilshorn, Makoto Irisumi, Anson So, Audrey Lorvo, and Thiago Veloso de Souza

MIT D-Lab

We like to move it move it (in Madagascar): Testing a water vapor condensing chamber

Gaining insight into public health in rural Turkana County, Kenya

Workshop participants gathered in the Lorengelup Dispensary maternity ward for activities. From left to right: Christine Louriyen (TBI research assistant and Turkana translator), Chief Sarah Pedo, Elizabeth Eporon (mother), Rebecca Akal (mother), Acacia Leakey (TBI), Soad Mana (D-Lab), Joyce Apus (Lorengelup Dispensary worker), Alice Kosiyae (mother), Ipshita Karmakar (D-Lab), and Shulammite Lim (D-Lab). Photo: Courtesy MIT D-Lab

Blog | Mar 02, 2023 | Shulammite Lim

MIT D-Lab

Gaining insight into public health in rural Turkana County, Kenya

Creative Capacity Building for Circular Economy Design in Cochabamba, Bolivia - Part 2

Blog | Mar 01, 2023 | IAP D-Lab: Development & D-Lab: Gender and Development Teams

MIT D-Lab

Creative Capacity Building for Circular Economy Design in Cochabamba, Bolivia - Part 2

My journey through MIT D-Lab to Moving Health

Me boarding the plane to Kumasi, Ghana. Photo: Courtesy Aditya Mehrotra

Blog | Jul 11, 2022 | Aditya Mehrotra

MIT D-Lab

My journey through MIT D-Lab to Moving Health

Radios for Rhino Camp refugee settlement in Northern Uganda

A slide from our final presentation explaining radio station equipment.

Blog | Mar 05, 2021 | Tiffany Louie '24, Francesca Macchiavello '21, Isabella Chiurillo '23

MIT D-Lab

Radios for Rhino Camp refugee settlement in Northern Uganda

Botswana: Creative Capacity Building and redesigning a Mumbaimbai seed pod crusher

Members of Tsodilo Village and These Hands pose for a victory shot after the community showcase in January 2020.

Blog | Apr 10, 2020 | Anna Johnson '21, Amelia Seabold '22, Meghana Vemulapalli '22

MIT D-Lab

Botswana: Creative Capacity Building and redesigning a Mumbaimbai seed pod crusher

D-Lab: Development students collaborate with UTVCO, Oaxin, Tejiendo Alianzas, and Oaxacan communities

D-Lab: Development team in Oaxaca with community partners and the nearly finished cart we worked on together.

Blog | Feb 27, 2020 | Yu Jing Chen '22

MIT D-Lab

D-Lab: Development students collaborate with UTVCO, Oaxin, Tejiendo Alianzas, and Oaxacan communities

Meshing Worlds Together

Working on the "maquina" with Natalia Barrer Guetierrez from Diversa.

Blog | Feb 25, 2020 | Athena Zhang ‘20, Pedro Leandro La Rotta ‘21, and Sridevi Kaza ‘21

MIT D-Lab

Meshing Worlds Together

Needs assessment and co-design for lentil procurement in Bihar, India

Farmers participating in a focus group discussion.

Blog | Feb 11, 2020 | Angela Qian '22, Lauren Rice '22, Blanche Shao'21, Josh Talbot '21

MIT D-Lab

Needs assessment and co-design for lentil procurement in Bihar, India

D-Lab Development: Agroforestry in Canto do Buriti

Blog | Jan 22, 2020 | Simran Pabla ‘20, Clarice Tan ‘22, Rhea Mehta ‘20

MIT D-Lab

D-Lab Development: Agroforestry in Canto do Buriti

A Design and Innovation Summit for Youth in Uganda with TEWDI and D-Lab: Development

Starting the day with a design challenge for the students. Soroti, Uganda, January 2019.

Blog | Mar 28, 2019 | Aryaa Sheth, Conor Kirby, Youmna Maria Chamieh, Olivia Mae Waring

MIT D-Lab

A Design and Innovation Summit for Youth in Uganda with TEWDI and D-Lab: Development

Community innovation in Botswana with These Hands & D-Lab: Development

Proud traditional basket weavers with their hand crafted coasters! Three D-Lab: Development students in Botswana: (left to right) Rebecca Sloan, Smita Bhattacharjee, Anna Wan.

Blog | Feb 08, 2019 | Smita Bhattacharjee, Rebecca Sloan, Anna Wan

MIT D-Lab

Community innovation in Botswana with These Hands & D-Lab: Development

MIT Independent Activities Period 2019: 40 D-Lab students in 7 countries!

D-Lab students and local community members testing a bean thresher, Botswana. January 2019.

Blog | Jan 15, 2019 | Libby Hsu, Lecturer & D-Lab Academic Program Manager

MIT D-Lab

MIT Independent Activities Period 2019: 40 D-Lab students in 7 countries!

Energy Needs Assessment in Nepal with D-Lab and Kathmandu University

Blog | Feb 23, 2018 | Anish Paul Antony, Adam Zhao, Lucy Milde, and Jennifer Lu

MIT D-Lab

Energy Needs Assessment in Nepal with D-Lab and Kathmandu University

D-Lab: Development - Botswana 2015 (video!)

D-Lab: Development - Peru 2015 (video!)

Blog | Feb 26, 2015 | Chheangkea Ieng

MIT D-Lab

D-Lab: Development - Peru 2015 (video!)

D-Lab: Development - El Salvador 2015 (video!)

Blog | Feb 23, 2015 | Victoria Tam

MIT D-Lab

D-Lab: Development - El Salvador 2015 (video!)

Creative Capacity Building Workshop held in Tsodilo Village, Botswana from 13th-25th January 2020

short video highlighting some of the projects made during Creative Capacity Building training held in Tsodilo by These Hands, GSSE and MIT D-Lab students.

Video | Feb 29, 2020 | Creative Hub

Creative Hub

Creative Capacity Building Workshop held in Tsodilo Village, Botswana from 13th-25th January 2020

D-Lab: Development Student Fieldwork - India 2020

D-Lab: Development students, trip leader Megha Hegde, and local community members and farmers. Bihar, India.

Video | Feb 13, 2020 | Lauren Rice '22

MIT D-Lab

D-Lab: Development Student Fieldwork - India 2020