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MANJA

Product Design, Social Design

Developing a strategy for female empowerment in Rural India for the CSR of Renault Group

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Role

Researching, ideation, Prototype,

Video animation

Timeframe

3 months

Nice, France

Deliverables

Research output

Final concept

Prototypes

Team

Iris Roussel

Megane Martini​

Context
"Understand the needs of the rurban population in order to imagine a mobility concept that will improve their life quality"

Context

We received the research conducted in a previous project and from the information received we created a strategy around the Renault Traffic Car Model that would be deployed in India.

Skills: Product design, user experience, service design, design thinking, sketching, 3D animation, high fidelity prototyping

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Ideation

Ideation

Develop and enhance female local handcrafts in order to create micro-enterprises by providing a vehicle with a modular storage space that will allow them to perform their activities while taking care of their families.

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Manja

MANJA

Empower rural women in India through the creation of female communities around a new modular car concept that addressed their cultural-specific need

We created an innovative seat format which was the center of the empowerment strategy “by women, for women”.

The strategy consisted of creating entrepreneurial communities of women that would leverage on their existing skills and would allow them to build and configure the car according to their needs, allowing for different configurations such as passenger mode, harvest transportation, and allowing them to easily remove the seats when they were not needed.

Manja proposed scenarios according to user needs 

Manja technical information

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Manja modular seats

Manja final concept

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Functional prototype of modular seat created for Manja

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