Design para a autonomia humana | Rishi Krishna Iyer S | TEDxRathinam Technical Campus

Em 2018, Rishi Krishna Iyer S perdeu a mão direita e procurou uma prótese de braço que pudesse realmente usar. Os modelos importados eram caros e pouco adequados às condições locais, enquanto os mais baratos ofereciam pouca funcionalidade. Com Niranjankumar Raghupathi, ele cofundou a Symbionic, que desenvolve o Krea Adaptive, um sistema modular projetado e montado na Índia. A palestra no TEDxRathinam Technical Campus discute como produtos e sistemas podem ampliar ou restringir a autonomia das pessoas.

• Experiência pessoal na busca por uma prótese funcional
• Sistema modular Krea Adaptive
• Design voltado às condições indianas e às escolhas dos usuários

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