{"id":178,"date":"2017-10-25T11:52:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T06:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/?page_id=178"},"modified":"2022-07-14T01:01:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T19:31:06","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SuDesi \u2013 acronym for\u00a0<strong><u>Su<\/u><\/strong>stainability and\u00a0<strong><u>Desi<\/u><\/strong>gn.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Su<\/em>\u00a0is a Sanskrit prefix for good, positive, virtuous and beautiful; and\u00a0<em>desi <\/em>stands for design that is indigenous and responsive to local diversity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SuDesi lab comprises multi-disciplinary researchers working on diverse areas underlying and challenging sustainability. These areas include climate-responsive architecture (buildings and materials), design for the Bottom of the Pyramid, Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV), sustainability evaluation in design\/technology and manufacturing, and water and sanitation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lab strives to bring out at least one Science &amp;Technology based significant contribution of societal relevance every two years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1003\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/SuDesi-Lab-Poster.jpg?resize=640%2C918\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/SuDesi-Lab-Poster.jpg?w=2208&amp;ssl=1 2208w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/SuDesi-Lab-Poster.jpg?resize=209%2C300&amp;ssl=1 209w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/SuDesi-Lab-Poster.jpg?resize=768%2C1102&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/SuDesi-Lab-Poster.jpg?resize=714%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 714w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/SuDesi-Lab-Poster.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/SuDesi-Lab-Poster.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SuDesi \u2013 acronym for\u00a0Sustainability and\u00a0Design. Su\u00a0is a Sanskrit prefix for good, positive, virtuous and beautiful; and\u00a0desi stands for design that is indigenous and responsive to local diversity. SuDesi lab comprises multi-disciplinary researchers working on diverse areas underlying and challenging sustainability. These areas include climate-responsive architecture (buildings and materials), design for the Bottom of the Pyramid, <a href=\"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/about-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about About the Lab<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-178","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9uKN8-2S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cst.iisc.ac.in\/sudesi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}