Priyabrata Rautray
Assistant Professor
Passionate design researcher with 16+ years of experience in architecture and design in India. He has a keen interest in the field of sustainable architecture and design solutions, he wishes to contribute to society by imparting quality education to budding architects and designers of Odisha. He has a bachelor's degree in architecture (2002-2007) and a master's degree in industrial design (2007-2009) and recently he was awarded a Joint PhD degree from IIT Hyderabad and Swinburne University, Australia. His area of research was on understanding users’ needs, wants and concerns regarding Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAVs) and how to convert these users’ insights into design parameters. He has worked on many collaborative projects and has secured funding from the Government of India and other funding agencies. He has recently got an Indian patent on Bio-Bricks, a sustainable building material developed from agro-waste, and I wish to continue further research in sustainable building materials. He also received two design registrations for his ergonomically designed pillow (Layered Pillow – Ullow) from the patent office of India. He and Ar Avik Roy have received the Special Recognition Trophy for Bio-Bricks as a sustainable material for housing at Rural Innovators Start-Up Conclave 2019, organised recently by NIRDPR, Hyderabad. His team also won funding from BIRAC and C-CAMP seed funding to develop a dental device for better visualisation in 2019. For another project, he along with Mr Promod Mangalore got IKP-EDEN seed funding for creating a rescue device in 2021. He was awarded four BUILD projects from IIT Hyderabad (2020) to design and build – Bio-Bricks based building, Swatch Air (air sterilisation system), Sudhikaran multi-unit and Sudhikaran UT (UVC sterilisation unit) and Face Shield and he also received the 28th Annual HYSEA Awards for hottest ten start-ups in Hyderabad, 2020.
Product Design, Sustainable Design, Architecture, Frugal Design, Installation, Design Research, User-Centered Design
Rautray, P., Roy, A., Mathew, D. J., & Eisenbart, B. (2019, July). Bio-Brick-Development of sustainable and cost effective building material. In Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design (Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 3171-3180). Cambridge University Press.
Rautray, P., Mathew, D. J., & Eisenbart, B. (2020, May). USERS’SURVEY FOR DEVELOPMENT OF PASSENGER DRONES. In Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference (Vol. 1, pp. 1637-1646). Cambridge University Press.
Rautray, P., Roy, A., Mathew, D. J., & Eisenbart, B. (2021). Bio-bricks: Circular economy and new products. In Design for Tomorrow—Volume 1: Proceedings of ICoRD 2021 (pp. 845-857). Springer Singapore.
Rautray, P., & Eisenbart, B. (2021). Additive manufacturing–enabling digital artisans. Proceedings of the Design Society, 1, 323-332.
Rautray, P., Mathew, D. J., Eisenbart, B., & Kuys, J. (2022). Understanding Working Scenarios of Urban Air Mobility. Proceedings of the Design Society, 2, 563-572.
Rautray, P., Roy, A., & Eisenbart, B. (2023). APPLICATION OF BIO-BRICKS & ITS BENEFITS. Proceedings of the Design Society, 3, 603-612.
Rautray, P., Roy, A., & Mathew, D. J. (2023, January). “HappyBin” Remodifying Social Behaviors. In International Conference on Research into Design (pp. 997-1009). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.
Rautray, P., Sahu, V., Dey, N., & Mathew, D. J. (2021). Understanding and Finding Issues Related to Root Canal Treatment Procedure from a Design Perspective. In Design for Tomorrow—Volume 3: Proceedings of ICoRD 2021 (pp. 413-424). Singapore: Springer Singapore.
Sharma, B., Roy, A., & Rautra, P. (2020). A practice-based approach to design education. DS 101: Proceedings of NordDesign 2020, Lyngby, Denmark, 12th-14th August 2020, 1-10.
Nagananda, M. S., Sengupta, A. M. I. T., Santhosh, J. A. Y. A. S. H. R. E. E., Anand, S. N. E. H., Rehman, K., Khan, A. M., ... & Das, L. K. (2010). Design and pragmatic studies of bathroom for elderly people in India. WSEAS Transactions on Biology and Biomedicine, 4(7), 287-305