Our Background
Located on the 7th floor of the Dar Es Salaam Institute for Technology’s Teaching Tower, the DIT Design Studio is a maker space equipped with tools, parts, components and expertise necessary for members to bring their ideas to life. We believe in active learning, innovative thinking, and empathetic design. Karibuni.
Our Blog
SELCOM NEEDS FINDING Fuad Abdallah, August 29, 2021. Vinayak (a poet) once said, “Every land is fertile, with only the need of finding suitable seeds.” This week was all about finding needs. Madam Julia arranged...
Get to know about prototyping… A preliminary version of a device or vehicle from which other forms are developed is called prototype. There are many advantages of working on a prototype before developing the actual...
LEMELSON INTERNSHIP 2021 Benjamin Lembaro Blog #3 As student engineers, we sometimes had to design when solving basic problems that we came across. However, in most cases our designs were based on the solution...
SELCOM TEAM WORK My whole time in the DIT Design Studio, I have never thought that I could be a part of any design crew. I was only thinking about school, lectures and theories from...
Advantages of prototyping in the design cycle A prototype is the working model of the product or solution that is created before manufacturing the actual product. Prototyping is not only used in Engineering but also...
STRONG WEEK Last week was a tough one because we did different activities such as studying the generation and failure of Roundabout Playpump appropriate technology in Africa, problem context and some lectures about empathy, synthesis,...
Design is the intermediary between information and understanding… Neema Bryceson Kambo 21st August 2021 We started with a design thinking session where we were trying to understand how to internalize the problem through empathizing....
Design is the intermediary between information and understanding… Neema Bryceson Kambo 21st August 2021 We started with a design thinking session where we were trying to understand how to internalize the problem through empathizing....
MAKE IT BETTER They usually say that ‘‘practice makes you better, but not perfect’’. So do I ! To keep a long story short, there is no perfect design in the world, and never trust...
MIND BLOWING STRATEGIES THAT WILL AMAZE YOU!!! Maximilian D Mkenda, 30 August 2021. It’s hard to be amazed by a prototype. But when you believe and put effort and time into creating one, then...
