Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan

Projects 2023

FermOne

Leo Udell, Arden Rousseaux, Blade Vavzincak

FermOne is a toy car whose battery is powered by a microbial fuel cell. Children experiment with different materials in the fuel cell to test how they can affect the car's charge time, making it a fun and educational toy.

Dr. Deepa Butoliya is an assistant professor at Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. She is a researcher and educator in industrial design and biodesign and design research. Deepa’s research over the past 10 years has focused on critical perspectives and practices in design that are located at the intersection of models of knowledge and critical thinking emerging from multiple and global perspectives. Her research is rooted in exploring critical design practices from the global south and involves exploring the criticality embedded in the ubiquitous and very human practice of Jugaad which is a hindi term for makedo situated under severe constraints.