an initiative by Kokum Design Trust supported by Mahindra Foundation
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
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
Environment, Restoration, Strategic Design
An intent to realize; a 200-acre basalt quarry is now a protected forest – a result of a process that has been designed for optimal human intervention.
Written and Contributed by M/s Prabhakar B. Bhagwat
Communication Design, Environment
A collaboration across three organisations from three different sectors to demonstrate the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for Olive Ridley turtle conservation.
Written and Contributed by Technology for Wildlife
Communication Design, Culture, Environment
A memory mapping project initiated by the Bookworm Trust and the Scottish artist Liz Kemp bought together 500 community members between the ages of 5-80 years to document narratives, folklore, the memory and the relationship of communities who live along the river Mandovi in Goa.
Written and Contributed by Bookworm
Architecture and Urban Design, Climate Change, Craft, Culture, Environment, Strategic Design
Post 2001 Gujarat earthquake, Gandhi nu Gam at Ludiya was one of the sixteen villages where Vastu Shilpa Foundation was involved with the rehabilitation process. It involved the construction of 455 traditional bhungas together with three schools, a grass bank, community buildings, production centres, religious shrines, the electricity network and a water harvesting system.
Written and Contributed by Footprints EARTH
Architecture and Urban Design, Education, Environment, Strategic Design
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