Concevoir pour l'action humaine | Rishi Krishna Iyer S | TEDxRathinam Technical Campus

En 2018, Rishi Krishna Iyer S a perdu sa main droite et a cherché une prothèse de bras utilisable. Les modèles importés étaient coûteux et peu adaptés aux conditions locales, tandis que les moins chers offraient peu de fonctions. Avec Niranjankumar Raghupathi, il a cofondé Symbionic, qui conçoit le Krea Adaptive, un système modulaire fabriqué en Inde. Son intervention à TEDxRathinam Technical Campus porte sur la manière dont les produits peuvent étendre ou limiter l'autonomie des personnes.

• Parcours personnel en quête d'une prothèse fonctionnelle
• Le système modulaire Krea Adaptive
• Conception adaptée au contexte indien et aux choix des utilisateurs

What does it mean to design for someone’s right to choose? Drawing on his experience of losing his right hand and building Symbionic, Rishi Krishna explores how products and systems can expand or restrict human agency. Through lessons from designing prosthetics, he shares why listening to people, offering meaningful choices, and understanding what matters to them should guide what we build. About In 2018 I lost my right hand. Then I went looking for a prosthetic arm. The imported ones cost more than a car and were built for conditions that do not exist here. The cheap ones did nothing. I had money, a network, and time, and I still could not find an arm I would actually wear. Most people in India who lose a hand have none of those three things. I co-founded Symbionic that year with Niranjankumar Raghupathi. We build the Krea Adaptive: a modular upper limb system with a quick-disconnect wrist, a 360-degree rotatable wrist, and four attachments covering the things people actually want back. Riding. Eating. Training. Working. Designed and assembled in India, for Indian conditions. People are using it across India. Some funded by corporate CSR, some by foundations, some who paid for it themselves. If you run CSR or a foundation funding disability or livelihood work in India message me here. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx