an initiative by Kokum Design Trust supported by Mahindra Foundation
Disability Rights, Product and Industrial Design
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
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
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 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
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 – 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
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
Architecture and Urban Design, Education, Tourism
Designed for Better Life Foundation (BLF), this is a space for the identification, promotion, development and dissemination of grassroots innovations by farmers and inventors of the region.It is envisaged as a collaborative space for the local community with access to a global resource network.
Written and Contributed by Uday Goswami and Jayesh Ganesh
CtoK’s theory of change provides innovative and holistic hands-on support to a new young generation of Kashmiri craftspeople; helping them infuse traditional craft practices by creating sustainable networks that are resilient to market conditions.
Written and Contributed by Commitment to Kashmir
Craft, Culture, Strategic Design
Art for Life is the flagship programme of Banglanatak Dot Com, for inclusive and pro-poor growth in rural India, using cultural capital as a means of sustainable development. This program covers 30,000 rural artists and 30 art forms across three states.
Written and Contributed by Banglanatak Dot Com
Architecture and Urban Design, Education
Studio A Dvaita, Syngenta Foundation and Snehalaya (NGO) came together to build an agricultural training centre for children of marginalised farmers where they can engage and learn about the various agricultural technique through courses.
Written and Contributed by Studio A Dvaita
Architecture and Urban Design, Education
Modskool is the modular design and construction of a low-cost school that was built in a few days and can be dismantled within a few hours to protect from evictions faced by informal settlements in Delhi, India.
Written and Contributed by Social Design Collaborative