Studios and projects in sustainabilities
I want to write a text about the ultimate purpose of sustainability studios offered to industrial Design students. I want to ask the agencies or sustainability organisations who engage with design...
View ArticleSustainable Designs for a Living World
10 Awe-Inspiring, Sustainable Designs for a Living World: Showing Now at Cooper Hewitt (Slideshow) : TreeHugger Not able to hoof it to New York City’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum for the Nature Conservancy’s...
View ArticleBad aid makes things worse in Sahel
Bad aid makes things worse in Sahel – PSD Blog – The World Bank Group Sahel_map_2Why has development been unable to break the cycle of poverty in one of the poorest and environmentally damaged regions...
View ArticleYou Can Help Save The Planet
Earth – You Can Help Save The Planet | Green Eco Voice The environmental movement! Mankind continues to struggle with ideas and ways to save the planet. Words like sustainability, eco-friendly,...
View Article2009 project
Theme: Social Innovation and Service Design My practice is in the area of sustainability – which I articulate as the development of projects that look at material and systemic sustainability in...
View ArticleWaste
My foray into waste began in 1998 as a classroom exercise for my students where we were looking at types of problems and ways to approach them . The first exercise to design a better garbage bin became...
View ArticleSustainability
In 2001 I developed a curriculum tool kit for design academics to teach sustainability principles in the classroom (published as a paper). This kit is in use today as the prototype of a learning...
View ArticleDilli is lovely, though a wee bit dusty
The dusty Delhi air is now a problem. When we lived there we blamed the loo, and the cold that trapped the dust. Wonder how much to Delhi’s dust is natural and how much is man made? Delhi’s...
View ArticleGrape Jelly Recipe
This is a post about harvesting grapes from my backyard and then making Jelly from the grapes. We have a single vine in our backyard and it throws up a profusion of grapes every year. One year, on...
View ArticleJam of Cane sugar and Fresh Figs
We have a fig tree in our back yard – just one. Every year it produces a lot of fruit through February and March. We are mindful that this is the bounty of nature. The fruit the tree produces is...
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