Issue #10, 2023 ISSN: 2581- 9410 Introduction Millions of pastoralists graze India’s forests, wastelands, grasslands and farm fallows. […]
Reviving Indigenous Wool Craft of India
Article Category: Sustainability, Sustainable Devt.
Types of Zari Used for Brocade Weaving
Issue #10, 2023 ISSN: 2581- 9410 Introduction The term zari is synonymous with textiles having elaborate and rich […]
Designing a better society
The landscape that Raj and Romesh Thapar tended through Seminar was a space inviting discourse, respectful argument and consensus around values essential to a ‘plural and intellectually energetic India’. For the Thapars, Independence had brought responsibility. New generations should flourish in an India ‘Where the mind is without fear… where the world has not been […]
Design Research
Design research in and for India has a history. The 1958 India Report by Charles and Ray Eames – from which flowered design education and the development of a contemporary profession of Indian design – underlined research, training and service as overlapping, supportive and mutually corrective. The Eames’ brilliant meditation on the lota with its […]
Design in India
C G Road is Ahmedabad’s pride: a new shopping boulevard that turns its back on the crowded bazaars of this medieval city. Steel and glass store fronts, coffee shops, Pizza Hut, the latest in home entertainment, sportswear, fashion and ethnic chic: international brand names from India and overseas, flashing in neon to attract Ahmedabad’s affluent […]
Conservation of Hill Ecologies
Uttranchal – an opportunity Issues of conservation that affect hill stations and hill areas take on particular significance in Uttranchal. The creation of this new state was founded on a struggle for equity in the ownership and use of natural resources. Local wisdom here has always recognized that human progress and protection of the environment […]
Fabric of the Future
Issue #009, 2022 ISSN: 2581- 9410 Creating a sustainable cycle of Organic Desi Cotton. Nothing can so quickly […]
Proposing a Sustainable Socio-Economic System for the Languishing Dhokra Craft Clusters in Betul, Madhya Pradesh, India
Issue #007, Winter, 2021 ISSN: 2581- 9410 Abstract: Switching of skills by the crafts persons in the area of folk crafts is a common feature in […]
Education and Identity for Indigenous Oaxacan Artisans
Issue #006, Autumn, 2020 ISSN: 2581- 9410 There are many ways in which education can support the personal and creative development […]
From Kala Raksha Vidhyalaya to Somaiya Kala Vidya
Issue #006, Autumn, 2020 ISSN: 2581- 9410 Indian artisans are reeling from COVID-19 and its economic repercussions. Many organizations have emerged, […]