Effects of poverty conceptions on design for the Resource-constrained populations

Pramod Ratnakar Khadilkar

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Abstract: Design for the resource-constrained population aims to address the negative effects of its defining attribute: poverty. A designer must be able to answer fundamental questions, such as how to decide who is poor, why poverty in one context differs from others, which types of projects could affect which aspects of poverty, etc. Poverty studies and developmental economics have a scientific understanding of poverty, which is inaccessible to designers due to differences in the nomenclature. This paper addresses this gap by interlinking the five levels of poverty that deal with the conception of unfairness in poverty and related ethical arguments, its causes, its measures, and the possible remedies by linking it with the three design elements, namely, the designer, the design problem, and the design process, resulting in five extensions about the scope, execution, and evaluation of the projects, and the fundamental skills and abilities of the designer.

Date: 2026-06-02
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