Design has transitioned progressively from a consumer-focused discipline to a human-centred one, with a more complex agenda.Design thinking has been successfully deployed as an agent for social change.In this paper we take a trans-disciplinary approach to social design in remote villages of Uttarakhand, India.Lack of employment opportunities and to
A Legitimate Response of Muslims towards Islamophobia
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation is a vocal inter-governmental organization of Muslim member states.It sets its own policy agenda and it established an Islamophobia Observatory in 2007 in its Directorate of Cultural, Social, and Family Affairs.The observatory works in the constituency of Cultural Affairs Department.It monitors and publishes
Development, Verification and Assessment of a Laser Profilometer and Analysis Algorithm for Microtexture Assessment of Runway Surfaces
Runway surface friction is critically important to safe aircraft operations and mostly depends on the surface texture, which provides grip in the presence of contamination and directly affects the friction coefficient in general.Microtexture assessment is the most challenging part of texture assessment since there is no standardised pavement microt