Kitchen Museum for Skyurbuchan by Kunal Lokhande, Aijin Shaji, Shruti Chakke TThe project was built on heritage conservation work done by achi association in skurbuchan village. As a team of designers our agency was to propose a framework for Kitchen museum and Agriculture museum.The museum acts as a bridge between old and young generation of the village. The process involved immersing ourselves in the village for a month and understand multiple local factors such as History, Ecology, Agriculture, Food traditions, Religious context etc. create textiles as a livelihood activity.
As humans beings, we have a fundamental need to form groups that believe in things that exist purely in our own imagination, such as gods, states, money and human rights. Our relationships are moulded by these ideas through the social norms we follow. Exploring these norms Avneesh Murgai probes our personal inter-relationships by asking, “What is our idea of intimacy?” and in our contemporary social milieu “How would one define a relationship as intimate?” Srinivas Harivanam probes into the social norms around the value of work and labour by asking, “Why is the work-life
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Speculative Stories from Shahpur Jat by Aarushi Bapna Is Development for everyone? How will the current context be extrapolated with respect to living, climate and human interrelationship? The project studies a marginalised settlement in Delhi and extrpoaltes a possible future.
balance for Indian working class so poor?” Zooming out, while working in a remote Himalayan village with a fast-disappearing Buddhist way of life, Kunal Lokhande, Aijin Shaji, Urja Jhaveri, and Shruti Chakke ask “What does development mean to villagers?”. Similarly, trying to probe into the lives of urban poor and thinking around the issues of social development Aarushi Bapna inquires into questions of equity by asking the simple question, “Is Development for Everyone?” These inquiries are about how social norms shape our understanding of identities, development and the production of culture.
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