an initiative by Kokum Design Trust supported by Mahindra Foundation
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, 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
Architecture and Urban Design, Clean Energy, Education, Environment
Avasara Academy is a first-of-its-kind secondary school and leadership academy that aims to cultivate India’s next generation of women leaders.
Written and Contributed by Case Design
Architecture and Urban Design, Education
Built on a shoestring budget, the Hilltop School by DesignAware incorporates the rocky terrain as part of the vibrant design in a neighbourhood below the 16th century Golconda Fort.
Written and Contributed by DesignAware
Architecture and Urban Design, Education
The architectural intent was to synthesize a complex design brief into a pleasant, comfortable living environment and form a coherent neighbourhood landmark that exudes positivity and optimism within the limited footprint available in a tight urban situation.
Written and Contributed by Flying Elephant Studio
Architecture and Urban Design, Craft, Education
Conceptualized from a child’s early scribbles that turned into a series of dancing arches, the school is an experiment with materials and forms.
Written and Contributed by Samira Rathod Design Associates
Architecture and Urban Design, Education
The campus is an attempt to evoke the vernacular desert archetype through massive, continuous shielding ochre-coloured walls, controlled openings, the deeply shaded courtyard, and the wind towers.
Written and Contributed by Indigo Architects
Architecture and Urban Design, Education
Aanandshala Project by BPS Architects – Brinda & Parth Shah in collaboration with Centre for Environment Education, focuses on creating a conducive educational environment including physical, social and pedagogical values in the school and the community.
Written and Contributed by BPS Architects
Architecture and Urban Design, Education
‘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, Governance
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, Education
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
Disability Rights, Education, Product and Industrial Design
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