Market
Design a solution that establishes a relationship between people and their local craft ecosystems, resulting in reduced dependency on the global market.
Design a secure support system that up skills artisans about online marketing for market expansion.
Design a strategy that provides platforms for artisans to raise their concerns and work related challenges that ultimately affect their lives.
Design a suitable solution to build a shared working space that would encourage cross pollination of craft skills resulting in product innovation.
Connecting people to local ecosystems by creating talent access pools, through facilitation of mobile and online market opportunities.
Craft products
Design a solution that helps artisans develop a sense of functionality and aesthetics in craft products, catering to the contemporary urban demands.
Craft Awareness
Design for building social awareness to develop and transform perceptions of crafts by non artisans through glamorising crafts.
Expanding consumer perceptions through Identity development of crafts to spread awareness about their cultural heritage.
Skills
Generating better non craft opportunities for struggling artisans through the effective use of their existing skillsets/creativity.
Migration
Design and development of artisan's creativity through better non craft opportunities for reducing migration of struggling artisans.
Facilitation of new skills and opportunities for makers by enabling making and mending through shared creative working spaces.
Building and facilitating relationships amongst creative artists, promoting the same local culture through different creative outlets/domains.
Collaboration
Cross pollination and collaboration of creative skills focused towards innovation to promote equality and inclusivity amongst creative stakeholders.
Designing a solution for artisans, by making them collaborate with designers by bringing their products upto date.
Design and development of mobile facilities to transport creativity for it's easy access.
Designing for recognition of existing creative practices as 'Crafts' to propagate creativity amongst everybody and promoting urban crafts for environmental and social development.
Craft Practise
Increasing unpredictability in climate changes have a huge impact on the livelihoods of craftsmen who practice in the climate-critical regions. Their current crumbling craft structures do not have the strength to sustain through the recurring climatic conditions. Create a service intervention that aids the affected practitioners for a fast recovery and prevents them from similar future situations by stabilizing their livelihood.
The existing reforms have the potential to penetrate deeper through the creative ecosystem. However the craft practitioners do not always get benefited due to inefficient implementation of the reforms and/or lack of awareness in the beneficiaries. It is important to create an informed craft ecosystem which can leverage from these reforms to produce maximum output. Design a platform which provides transparency and accessibilty to craft practitioners.
Ageing population of craft sector is unable to sustain the craft practices on its own. The fresh energy of the young generation can bring in a new dimension and approach into the whole sector. To (facilitate the inter-generational engagement) engage them with existing crafts, design a program to integrate craft learning into the education system.
Craft industry is the second biggest revenue resource of India. Irregular income and pricing across the industry pulls down the possible profit abilities. Design intervention for standardising the criteria for payment in the craft sector to bring better income through crafts.
To focus on the quality of communication between collaborating team members (craft and design teams) to enable them to reach a consensus, cooperate and fulfill their goals successfully. Understanding the importance of attitudinal shifts in creating a respectful work environment.
Designing a solution for artisans, to overcome difficulty of procuring raw materials.
Education
Designing a solution to take care of artisan's emotional wellbeing, to help them increase their productivity, facilitating promotion of better livelihood.
Designing a platform (application, programme etc) for training of artisans to help them understand and fulfill the contemporary market requirements, in way that it encourages them towards self-driven businesses and have better presence in market.
Design a system or service for revival and reintegration of skills of migrant artisans population by bringing the knowledge and unique experience back to their community context, to get better opportunities.
Design a solution to facilitate better direct network (transparency, traceability, transaction and communication) between the consumer and artisans resulting in a trustful relationship between the two.
To design a system where women artisans are empowered through training with specific skills to promote greater and substantial participation
There is a need for artisans to start designing independently.
Designing a strategy to benefit the community - community relationship by growing/nurturing through a shared working spaces and give a platform to artisans to present their creative endeavors and concerns regarding the same.
A learning platform for artisans to creatively apply their traditional knowledge and venture into ultra modernity along with the youth to carry forward their craft practices & values.
To Design a suitable work space/ work environment for differently abled artisans to reduce health issues and to enhance their welfare which will bring efficiency in their craft practices. Inclusion of such artisans would bring a positive change in the mindset of artisans as well as other people.
Artisans are well versed with their technical skills and are vulnerable to the established players in the market. Designing a platform for artisans to strengthen their identity and emerge as a thinker of creative businesses.
Designing a platform (Service, system, application, etc ) for artisans and designer collaborations which promote and inform that both are equal and ensure equal treatment in respect of behavior towards each other (wages, recognition and promotion) so that we can build a system which is innovative in terms of ideas, product development, creation as well as economically profitable.
In this mechanized era and fast paced life, there's uniformity in products across the country. Design to intervene into the space of home utilitarian products through craft practices which will bring local distinctiveness/ distinctiveness.