I’m a PhD candidate in the Interaction Design Research Group at the University of Twente. With a background in Product-Service Systems Design and experience spanning various design academies across Sri Lanka, Italy, and Sweden, I now focus on exploring systemic design approaches for planetary health-level complexities.
Innovations of Dulaj Perera
NEXTGEN4PH
Created: 12/09/2025
Modified: 21/10/2025
Modified: 21/10/2025
The NEXTGEN4PH project seeks to unite a transdisciplinary team of educators and over 400 students from four social science and engineering programs to collaborate across disciplines to co-design and implement educational materials focused on Design for Planetary Health.
Pathways to Planetary Health
Created: 22/05/2025
Modified: 29/07/2025
Modified: 29/07/2025
This study examines the application of a systems design approach in engineering education, focusing on how industrial design engineering students address planetary health challenges by integrating systems thinking and futures approaches to design systemic solutions.