Opportunities & Brief

After asking the questions and visiting the artisan places, we came up with some opportunities from different sectors like awareness about silicosis, about the quality of stone, about the skills of artisan and water purification for drinking. Those opportunities helps us to do further research we come up with some design brief from the opportunities that helps us to reach towards final design brief.

    • Need of proper awareness about the Silicosis disease among the artisans and villagers.

    • Find the way to keep distance from silica dust while stone carving.

    • Find the way artisan can comfortably use safety gears.

    • Need special treatment for silicosis to artisans.

    • Need of pension policy for the silicosis patients.

    • Develop the tool which controls the dispersion of dust particles.

    • Need financial support to become an entrepreneur.

    • Educate to artisans about containerization of stone carving products.

    • Need medical support to maintain the health of artisans and their families.


    • Need to get good quality stone to good work.

    • Need of legality mining source to the artisans.

    • Need to educate people about mining work and using equipment and machines.


    • Need of ground water purification.

    • Need of solution for silica particles decreases from the air.


    • Need to increase the payment of artisans.

    • Need of skill update to artisan as per the new technology.


    • Need of awareness among the villagers about the global market of stone work apart from traditional work.



Design brief is giving us idea about the where and which sector we have to carryout our research. following design brief is giving us idea about the where is actually need of design skills.


    1. Need to connect to the global market and competition from all over the world.

Designing the global level social platform to introduce the Dhrangadras stone craft to all over the world.


2. Need to get good quality stone for stone carving craft of Dhrangadhra.

Designing the structure to provide suitable sandstone to the Dhrangadhra’s stone carving artisans according to the purpose of the end product in the affordable prize.


3. Need of legality mining source to the stone craft artisans of Dhrangadhra village.

Designing the Procedure for the Stone artisans of Dhrangadhra to legally gain the sandstone from the stone mine of Dhrangadhra in free of cost through the government of Gujarat.


4. Need of ground water purification of Dhrangadhra village.

Designing the solution for the reducing micro silica particles from the Dhrangadhr’s groundwater sources to make Drinkable water for Dhrangadhra villagers.


5. Need of solution for silica particles decreases from the air of Dhrangadhra village.

Designing the format of practicing the Traditional stone carving craft of dhrangadhra village of Gujarat, which decreases the spreading dust of sandstone into the air.


6. Need of skill update to Stone craft artisan of Dhrangadhra as per the new technology.

Designing the Skill up gradation program among the stone carving artisans of Dhrangadhra village of Gujarat, according to the modern techniques, through the public platform.


7. Need to increase the payment of stone craft artisans of Dhrangadhra.

According to today's Inflation, Designing the standard pay scale formulation and Implementation program for the stone craft artisans of stone Industries of Dhrangadhra village,Gujarat.


7. Need to increase the payment of stone craft artisans of Dhrangadhra.

According to today's Inflation, Designing the standard pay scale formulation and Implementation program for the stone craft artisans of stone Industries of Dhrangadhra village,Gujarat.


8. Find the way to keep distance from silica dust while stone carving.

Design the procedure and implementation program to maintain safe distance from silica dust without harm to traditional Dhrangadhra stone craft practice


8. Find the way to keep distance from silica dust while stone carving.

Design the procedure and implementation program to maintain safe distance from silica dust without harm to traditional Dhrangadhra stone craft practice


9. Find the way artisan can comfortably use safety gears.

Design the patterns of using safety gears as comfortable levels of unusual usage of safety gears while stone craft practice at stone industries of Dhrangadhra.


10. Need special treatment for silicosis to artisans

Designing the health care service to precaution and special treatment for the silicosis patient of Dhrangadhra village.


11. Need of pension policy for the silicosis patients.

Designing the procedure to get financial support to silicosis patient's health care and family.


12. Develop the tool which controls the dispersion of dust particles.

Design and develop the tools of stone craft as control the dispersion of dust particles while working on sandstone for the stone craft artisans of Dhrangadhra village of Gujarat.


13. Need financial support to become an entrepreneur.

Plan out the financial support through NGOs and government organization, which helps them to become an entrepreneur for the stone craft artisan of Dhrangadhra village of Gujarat.

Final Brief

Designing the health care service to precaution and special treatment for the silicosis patient and the resident people of Silica dust area.

Design and develop the tools of stone craft as control the dispersion of dust particles while working on sandstone for the stone craft artisans