Mugendi Kanampiu M'RITHAA
Academic Dean, Professor of Industrial Design at Machakos University / Special Advisor at University of Cape Town
Schools
- University of Cape Town
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Biography
University of Cape Town
Mugendi Kanampiu M’Rithaa is a transdisciplinary industrial designer, educator, researcher and consultant presently working at Machakos University, Kenya. He studied in Kenya, the USA, India, and South Africa and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Design; a Masters degree in Industrial Design; a Higher/Postgraduate Diploma Higher Education and Training; as well as a Doctorate in Universal Design. He is widely traveled and has taught in Kenya, Botswana, Canada, India, Norway, South Africa and Sweden and is passionate about various expressions of socially conscious design, including Advanced Ergonomics/Human Factors Engineering; Design Thinking/Human-Centred Design (HCD); Designerly Strategies for Mitigating Climate Change; Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability; Distributed Renewable Energy; Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS); Participatory/Co-Design; Sustainable Development; Sustainable Transportation; and Universal/Inclusive Design (UD). Mugendi has a special interest in the pivotal role of design thinking in advancing the developmental agenda on the African continent. He is a founding member of the Pan-Afrikan Design Institute (PADI), and is associated with a number of other international networks focusing on design within industrially developing (or majority world contexts) including the Association of Designers of India (ADI). He is also the Founding Patron of the Interior Designers’ Association of Kenya (IDAK); a Board Member of Open Design Afrika (ODA); the Special Advisor to the Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking – d-school at the University of Cape Town (UCT); the Special Advisor to the Nairobi Design Week (NDW); a Founding Professional Member of the Design Kenya Society (DKS); as well as an Advisory Committee Member of the International Center for Creativity and Sustainable Development (ICCSD) under the auspices of UNESCO. Additionally, Mugendi is President Emeritus and Senator of the World Design Organization – having been the first African President in the history of the WDO from 2015-2017. Much of his work with the WDO focuses on the importance of supporting the aspirations of designers worldwide in the [industrial] design profession’s collective quest to resolve wicked problems in diverse contexts.
Education
- Cape Peninsula University of Technology - Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Universal Design
- Cape Peninsula University of Technology - Higher Diploma, Higher Education & Training
- Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay - Masters, Industrial Design
- University of Nairobi - Bachelors, Design (Honours)
- Technical University of Kenya - Certificate, Computer-Aided Design
Videos
Understanding Design Series: Prof. Dr. Mugendi K. M’Rithaa
Design Open Happy S1 E8 : Prof Mugendi K.M'RITHAA
Mugendi M'Rithaa on the first day at the IDA Congress in Taipei
Week 6: Mugendi M’Rithaa & Sizwe Nzima
DESIS in the Mirror -- Interview with Mugendi M'Rithaa
Mugendi K M Rithaa
Mugendi M'Rithaa - Cape Town's World Design Capital bid 2014
Future Ways of Living 2016 | Mugendi K. M'Rithaa
Mugendi M'Rithaa Keynote at Relating Systems Thinking and Design 4 Symposium
Icsid 國際工業設計社團協會理事長Mugendi M Rithaa 中英雙字幕
TEDxStellenbosch - Mugendi M'Rithaa - Design With Africa
Welcome and Opening statement, Mugendi M'Rithaa, Icsid President, Professor at CPUT
"The tale of the hunt will glorify the hunter" 🌍African Design History - Mugendi M'Rithaa @NIDEC2020
Moving Africa forward with design - Part 1
34. Mugendi on "Design for Sustainability - an Afrikan perspective"
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