India is surrounded by the vast oceans. Cyclones have a major impact on the coastal craft communities. Pattachitra is a fabric and natural colours based craft form that is located in eastern coast line. Raghurajpur, the heritage craft village is highly prone to yearly cyclones that give to rise to high financial and craft practice vulnerabilities in artisans. The damaged crafts seek revision and a place into the normalcy. Navya means a new life and our organization believes that nothing is fully volatile.

We work with a team of experts, designers and local guides to explore mending techniques that can give the damaged paintings an added value and give the artisans a faster recovery from cyclones.

Values-

Stability: Aiming to attain a balanced environment in tougher situations.

Righteousness: Taking right decisions to make sure of projecting positive impacts on artisans.

Endurance: Having the ability to endure through difficult process

India, with its rich heritage of handicraft, has seen this art form evolve over the years. Artisans are skilled manual workers engaged in craft production, to earn a livelihood.However, with various initiatives, things are taking a good shape and empowering Indian artisans, weavers, and craftsmen alike.

Education has evolved in many ways over the years and will continue changing with changes for the better, education will still be a priority for children. Children today are growing up in a world that has changed significantly in the past twenty years. These changes pave the way for new opportunities and transformation in the education system and the way children are taught. The shift in school curriculum and focus on subjects such as physical education, arts and crafts and vocational skills, provided us to create an opportunity that speaks of the inclusion of craft as a subject and artisan as a teacher in school, making the artisan a primary stakeholder in the Indian Education System.

Craft Questor as a service is a step forward to utilise the artisans’ creative minds, and providing them with employment opportunities, simultaneously benefitting in the development of young minds.

The crafts of India are diverse, rich in history, culture and religion. Throughout centuries, crafts have been embedded as a culture and tradition within rural communities. Taking dhokra craft as subject as it has a strong history and still reflects the tribal way of living of communities residing in Chattisgarh region. The craft has travelled through various cities across India and fused with different ideas and culture. Today it's practiced all over India but there has been a change in the attitudinal shift of artisans with time. There has been a change in the mindset of people in terms of approaching the craft and with modern influences, the idea of collective learning and sharing has been declined as well as the artisans have become more profit minded and focusing more on individualistic growth rather than collective.

The idea of bringing back the lost community spirit and diving deep into the subject to create the strong bond within artisanal communities through Traditional knowledge system.

Keywords- Traditional knowledge, Community spirit, Artisanal communities, Sharing and learning