an initiative by Kokum Design Trust supported by Mahindra Foundation
Communication Design, Health and Well Being
Menstruation is considered shameful and spoken about in hushed tones in India. To address this, Kaboom and Breakthrough India partnered to find ways to reach out to adolescent girls in rural Uttar Pradesh to increase knowledge and shift attitudes positively around menstruation.
Written and Contributed by Kaboom
Communication Design, Health and Well Being
The anthology explores the theme of the “Bystander”, a person who is present at an event or incident but does not take part.
Written and Contributed by Studio Kohl
Communication Design, Gender Equality, Health and Well Being
Lopez Design submitted an article a year ago on branding for Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health. It now has a new voice, identity and bigger partnership. We look into how it became a guiding force for the studio and the clients.
Written and Contributed by Lopez Design
Environment, Health and Well Being, Product and Industrial Design
Samarth is a modular outdoor air purifier that uses a filter-less technology to capture PM particles, adapts to its environment and seamlessly blend with the chaos of India.
Written and Contributed by Abhinav Saxena
Communication Design, Health and Well Being
ICall is a psychosocial helpline that offers free counselling via phone, chat and email by trained counsellors, started by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. ICall Colours of Light is a casebook that explores interventions by mental health practitioners for the benefit of adolescents and young adults who are placed in the rural context of Rajasthan.
Written and Contributed by Studio Kohl
Architecture and Urban Design, Culture
Hand-built by the local artisans along with teachers, students, architects and designers, Cocoon is a community space for teaching and exhibiting projects to visitors of Krishi Vigyan Kendra in Trichy.
Written and Contributed by Manasaram Architects
Architecture and Urban Design, Clean Water and Sanitation, Health and Well Being
Paani Lari is a nomadic public architecture conceptualised to resolve issues of public health, specifically those related to contaminated water by the agency of community management.
Written and Contributed by Chaah Chaal Agency
Architecture and Urban Design, Education
The Aparnaa School is an alternative to the typical campus development: it is a site for the testing of ideas instead of prescribing master plans. A place where time is allowed to gain value and is measured on and with the manmade. And an environment that is able to hold within itself many meanings of use and incrementality of growth.
Written and Contributed by Shubhra Raje
Architecture and Urban Design, Economy
The project successfully implements a typology that responds sensitively to the needs of the family and community within the space constraints of company housing.
Written and Contributed by DCOOP
Architecture and Urban Design, Craft, Restoration
200 years, SBI owns nearly 150 heritage buildings across India. This project features the efforts undertaken in documenting and conserving four valuable heritage buildings belonging to the State Bank of India (SBI) in Chennai, Madurai and Nagapattinam.
Written and Contributed by Cuboid Architects
Architecture and Urban Design, Health and Well Being
A built-form constantly negotiates the levels of a sloping site to remain integrated with the surrounding landscape to create ease of access for patients.
Written and Contributed by MO-OF/Mobile Offices
Architecture and Urban Design, Clean Water and Sanitation, Education, Health and Well Being
This project is a response to the onsite living conditions for temporal migrant construction workers in Ahmedabad, Gujarat – aiming to provide a healthier living condition, as well as dignity, for a marginalised population – through a holistic design approach focusing on well-being, sanitation and children’s education.
Written and Contributed by Hatch Workshop