an initiative by Kokum Design Trust supported by Mahindra Foundation
Product and Industrial Design, Waste Management
Greensole refurbishes old footwear into comfortable slippers and donates them to people in need. They also provide skills to the underprivileged through skill centres and retail eco-friendly footwear.
Written and Contributed by Greensole
Product and Industrial Design, Waste Management
The project reuses and upcycles a retired public vehicle thus serving multiple ideas through a singular design process: 1. Upcycling and giving the buses a second-life; 2. Enabling the waste workers and citizens to segregate on-site, and 3. Creating a unique prototype that is extremely affordable to make.
Written and Contributed by Studio Matter
Clean Water and Sanitation, Health and Well Being, Product and Industrial Design
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 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