‘Prabhaav’ is a rural immersion program, that takes empathetic changemakers to Indian villages, which are homes to indigenous arts/crafts/architecture.
Written and Contributed by Unbind
Architecture and Urban Design, Education
Author: kokum .co
Architecture and Urban Design, Education, Governance
OBSERVE!
The Observe program amplifies the voices of the youth by guiding them to pay attention to their cities, understand its functioning and effectively communicate the changes they desire based on their observations.
Written and Contributed by Urban Design Collective
Architecture and Urban Design, Craft, Governance
KRUSHI BHAWAN
Designed by Studio Lotus, Krushi Bhawan is a government facility that re-imagines the relationship between the state and its people.
Written and Contributed by Studio Lotus
Communication Design, Health and Well Being
REFRAME – FUNDING MENTAL HEALTH
Mental health is challenging to represent visually when considering concepts like inclusivity and diversity. ReFrame, initiated by MHI and designed by Studio Kohl, is a journal focussing on different vantage points to help the reader understand complex concepts and facts: that mental health issues are more situational and contextual than is believed.
Written and Contributed by Studio Kohl
Clean Water and Sanitation, Health and Well Being, Product and Industrial Design
BANDICOOT – MANHOLE CLEANING ROBOT
The ‘Prohibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Rehabilitation Act, 2013’, recognises manual cleaning of sewers as a dehumanising practise arising from the continuing existence of insanitary latrines and a highly iniquitous caste system. Four young replaced manual scavengers with robots in manholes. They kept the technology simple so that anyone can operate the Bandicoot with a little training.
Written and Contributed by Genrobotic Innovations
Disability Rights, Product and Industrial Design
HAPACOOP
HAPACOOP is a holistic approach to provide motivation, training, information dissemination, technical assistance and providing a livelihood vocation to our disabled individuals to be able to make an honest living.
Written and Contributed by HAPACOOP
Architecture and Urban Design, Education
MAYA SOMAIYA LIBRARY
Alluding to the impetus that children have towards landscape over a building we imagined the library building to be a formal extension of the ground plane. A place inside for study and a place above for play.
Written and Contributed by Sameep Padora & Associates
BEING IN IT AND BEING OF IT
With most things cultural, if not all; we feel that the role of the designer is to almost always communicate something intangible.
Written and Contributed by Deshna Mehta, Studio Anugraha
Architecture and Urban Design, Tourism
THE BIHAR MUSEUM
The Bihar Museum was won in an international competition and is the only government project to be built through an architectural competition post-independence. The design and execution process involved a collaboration between the Bihar State Government, Maki and Associates, Tokyo and Opolis Architects, Mumbai.
Written and Contributed by Opolis Architects
Disability Rights, Education, Product and Industrial Design
ANNIE
Braille literacy rates in India are at an abysmal low of less than 1%. It is this lack that Annie, Thinkerbell Labs’ innovation in Braille self-learning, hopes to change.
Written and Contributed by Thinkerbell Labs
Clean Energy, Product and Industrial Design
ADITYA SOLAR FERRY
ADITYA – Besides India’s first solar ferry, it is the first in the world to get more than 70% of its energy requirements fulfilled from solar. It has a seating capacity of 75 passengers and on a bright sunny day can cruise for more than 6 hours without the need for an external charge.
Written and Contributed by NavAlt Solar & Electric Boats
Architecture and Urban Design, Education, Environment, Strategic Design
KTK-BELT PROJECT – THE VERTICAL UNIVERSITY
It was born to create “living classrooms” stretching from Koshi Tappu (220 feet), Nepal’s largest aquatic bird sanctuary, to Mt. Kanchenjunga (28,169 feet), the world’s third tallest peak to teach and conserve the 6,600 flowering plant species, 800 bird species and 180 mammals that are found in eastern Nepal.
Written and Contributed by KTK-BELT Studio