Community Driven Innovation Project with the craft community of Gundiyali as a part of Craft Design Innovation Program Mansi S Rao | Rishav Jain | Jay Thakkar
Supported by
NSTEDB / Department of Science & Technology Government of India
Organiser
Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC), CEPT University, Ahmedabad
Collaborator
Manthan Educational Programme Society India
Swadesi Suitcase
Community Driven Innovation Project with the craft community of Gundiyali as a part of Craft Design Innovation Program
This publication is dedicated to the enterprising craftspeople of Gundiyali.
This publication is a compendium of the Community driven Innovation Project conducted with the craftspeople of Gundiyali village, Kutch district, Gujarat . The project was conducted in Gundiyali and Ahmedabad, Gujarat from April 2016 to January 2017. We trust that this compilation will be accepted more as a record of the project. Design Innovation and Craft Resource Center (DICRC) and the Faculty of Design, CEPT University wishes to acknowledge all the participants, partners, collaborators and supporters of the project. Every effort has been made to acknowledge copyright owners wherever necessary, but the publishers would be pleased to have any errors or omissions brought to their attention so that corrections may be published at a later printing.
Authors Mansi S Rao | Rishav Jain | Jay Thakkar Research Team Radha Devpura I Upasana Jain I Bhargav Padhiyar I Bhargav Katta I Chinmay Gheware I Aathish G
Published by Design Innovation and Craft Resource Center (DICRC) Faculty of Design, CEPT University Kasturbhai Lalbhai Campus, University Road Navrangpura, Ahmedabad 380 009. Gujarat, INDIA All Rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or published in any form or by any means including print, photocopying and word-processing or distributed in return for payment or by public lending without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and publisher. Subject to copyright laws. All quotations, reprints etc. must include a reference to the title of this publication. Š 2018 Selection+Editorial Matter: DICRC
Community Driven Innovation Project with the craft community of Gundiyali as a part of Craft Design Innovation Program Mansi S Rao | Rishav Jain | Jay Thakkar
Supported by
NSTEDB / Department of Science & Technology Government of India
Organizer
Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC), CEPT University, Ahmedabad
Collaborator
Manthan Educational Programme Society India
Swadesi Suitcase
acknowledgements Craft community of Gundiyali Makerfest Team Mathan Eductional Programme Society, Ahmedabad Project promoted under: i-STED Project, NSTED, DST, Government of India Swadeshi Suitcase Team of Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre: Jay Thakkar, Rishav Jain, Mansi S Rao, Rajdeep Routh, Samrudha Dixit, Bhargav Padhiyar, Bhargav Katta, Radha Devpura, Bhavanibhai Chauhan, Aasthish G, Chinmay Ghreware Manthan Educational Programme Society, Ahmedabad: Abhay Kothari, Kathan Kothari and Prabhat bhai Book Contibutors: Mansi S Rao, Rishav Jain, Bhargav Katta, Radha Devpura with Jay Thakkar
table of contents one.
the Project and its working
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the Self Initiated Challenge
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the Self Initiated Challenge model and its working
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Establish
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Initiate
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cards
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theme cards
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action cards
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Catalyze
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Explore
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Make
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Record
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Disseminate
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three. Kala Kosh
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About
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Field research
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The idea
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Prototype
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Prototype design
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Prototype making
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Next step
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Project Dissemination- Maker fest
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About
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Demonstration
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Digital archive
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the Project and its working Community Driven Innovation Project is an attempt to initiate an all inclusive and participatory process, bringing together the fields of craft and design. The idea was to engage with community and foster the idea of innovation within them. This entire process and approach is not planned as a series or sequence of events, rather they are like a web of activities which may repeat, overlap and coincide with others. In its initial phase, the idea of community driven innovation became the basis of the first pilot project with the terracotta craft cluster of Gundiyali, Mandvi Taluka, Kutch, Gujarat. During the 1st phase of the project, two major activities were conducted: Self Initiated Project and KalaKosh This project is supported by NSTEDB, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India under i-STED project and is carried out by Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC) and Manthan Educational Programme Society, India in collaboration with Swadesi Suitcase
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the Self Initiated Challenge and its working The self-initiated challenge looked at harnessing the craft skills and aesthetic abilities that already is inherent to the craftspeople and creating a repository of product typology and the associated narratives that exist in the community. This was done with a series of informal sessions and workshops. The subjects of discussion were focused on subjects like history, community, craftsmanship and imagination. Each individual or a group of individual made variety of prototypes depicting any one of the theme. The old products, tools and other material was also collected to depict the craft communities history.
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establish relation between designers and craftspeople
The first and the foremost stage becomes the ‘establish’ stage. During this stage it becomes crucial to establish relationship and trust in the craft community one is working with. The intention of this stage is to engage in discussions and informal conversation pertaining to the craft they practice, the history of the craft, the details about community, the skill set each possess and so on. The stage is important to be done very consciously so that the craft community starts opening up and discusses variety of things. Establishing a good trust and relationship is also important because it ensures that all the participants have developed faith in order to collaboratively work ahead. With the previous engagements with the craft community of gundiyali and the craft innovation training programme conducted, a relationship and trust was already established. This helped in removing barriers and ensured participation from the entire community.
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initiate different opportunities for the craft community
The idea of initiate stage is to start a conversation about the intentions of the project. Once the relationship and trust has been established, the initiate stage gives the participants a deeper insight to the intentions and details about the project. This stage usually involves doing detailed presentations about the project and also involving as much community to participate as possible. This stage also gives a clear picture to know how many people would be interested in undertaking the tasks ahead. Initiating the discussion also helps in engaging in informal talks about the project, encouraging maximum  community participation. The project was initiated with a pre-project presentation on the 6th June 2016. The presentation discussed in detail the previous engagements with the craft community and initiated a dialogue about the future set of activities. The presentation also gathered around 80 craftspeople from the community for the knowing the project.
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Self Initiated Challenge Pre Catalyze stage
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methodology Taking the Self Initiated Challenge (SIC) Model a stage ahead, at catalyze stage, it’s crucial to discuss the method of initiating the idea of Self Initiated challenge. Although in the initial discussions and informal talks with the participants, the idea has been already discussed, but a proper methodology and toolkit ensures active involvement of the community. The method of delivering the first Self initiated challenge, is conceptualized as cards and are discussed at two levels : Theme cards and Action cards. The Theme cards describe the ‘themes’ to be discussed for eg: history, craftsmanship, community and imagination. These cards describe what the theme means and what are the two most crucial questions/queries related to it. The action cards describe the actions to be taken in order to answer any of the queries listed in the theme cards. These cards are visualized to be used as a game. Each participant gets a entire set of theme and action cards. At one time, there is a discussion on one theme and all the action cards related to the theme are brought out. With each query related to the theme card, every action is performed to get hints and clues about the pertaining theme. This is repeated for all themes and each participant is expected to come out with a set of products depicting various themes.
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cards The method of delivering the first Self initiated challenge, is conceptualized as cards and are discussed at two levels : Theme cards and Action cards. The Theme cards describe the ‘themes’ to be discussed for eg: history, craftsmanship, community and imagination. These cards describe what the theme means and what are the two most crucial questions/queries related to it. The action cards describe the actions to be taken in order to answer any of the queries listed in the theme cards. The basic idea of the theme cards is as follows: HISTORY: This theme is about the history of your region, craft and family. IMAGINATION: This theme is about imagination, fantasies and originality. COMMUNITY: This theme is about your community’s rituals, belief systems and narratives. CRAFTSMANSHIP: This theme is about your skills, strengths and craftsmanship.
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catalyze ideas, concepts and thoughts through workshops
At this stage, after establishing a relationship and initiating a dialogue, the aim is to trigger new ideas and thoughts. Moving a step ahead, this stage requires deeper involvement from all the stakeholders. During this stage, the methodology is tried and explained to the participating craft community. The intention is to expose them to a newer method of working and discuss variety of possible outcomes after varied sessions. This stage tries to generate, gather, activate and catalyze new concepts of thinking and working. This is done through various workshop sessions, studio sessions and informal discussions over tea. Quite rigorous in nature, this stage gives a clearer picture of the happenings in the project. This methodology was tried during the first workshop which was conducted in November, 2016. This was the first introduction of the cards to the craft community. During the first session, few of the master craftspeople and young apprentices were invited to participate in the workshop. The workshop began with an introduction to the methodology and two sets of cards : action cards and theme cards. The entire set of cards were distributed to the group of artisans and each one was asked to brainstorm ideas pertaining to the action cards they received.
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explore different opportunities for the craft community
At this stage, after establishing a relationship and initiating a dialogue, the aim is to trigger new ideas and thoughts. Moving a step ahead, this stage requires deeper involvement from all the stakeholders. During this stage, the methodology is tried and explained to the participating craft community. The intention is to expose them to a newer method of working and discuss variety of possible outcomes after varied sessions. This stage tries to generate, gather, activate and catalyze new concepts of thinking and working. This is done through various workshop sessions, studio sessions and informal discussions over tea. Quite rigorous in nature, this stage gives a clearer picture of the happenings in the project. This methodology was tried during the first workshop which was conducted in November, 2016. This was the first introduction of the cards to the craft community. During the first session, few of the master craftspeople and young apprentices were invited to participate in the workshop. The workshop began with an introduction to the methodology and two sets of cards : action cards and theme cards. The entire set of cards were distributed to the group of artisans and each one was asked to brainstorm ideas pertaining to the action cards they received.
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make new model, sketches, notes, etc.
After the initial exploration, at this stage each participant starts detailing out the ideas and develops refined prototypes. The participants were encouraged to work with newer tools and techniques making each product unique from what existed earlier. Before one started the process of making, each expected outcome shall be discussed at length with master craftspeople and experts. This would ensure that all the technical aspects of the products are resolved and would have limited chance of error in production. A structured follow up at regular intervals regarding the varied stages of production and work progress is an integral part of the making process. During the second session conducted on 15th December 2016, the participants were encouraged to make as many prototypes as possible. With an initial discussion on the themes of Craftsmanship and Imagination, the artisans were encouraged to design products and make them, keeping the theme in mind. Engaging closely with the craftspeople, these sessions aimed to develop newer methods of thinking and interacting within and outside the community. Some of the outcomes from the workshop sessions were taken up to refine and later to be developed as products.
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record the outcomes, stories of the craftspeople
The record stage intends to document all the work done during various stages of the self-initiated challenge. It used varied mediums to record the activities happened during the project. This is done through photographic documentation, video recordings, scanning of exploratory sketches, 3-d recording of the products. During the Community Driven Innovation project undertaken at Gundiyali, each stage was carefully recorded and documented. The outcomes of each sessions, were recorded using the doc box developed as part of the project. This part will be further explored in detail with the Kala Kosh phase of the project.
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disseminate through exhibition and public discussions
Once all the outcomes of the self-initiated challenge were recorded and categorized, the next step is to disseminate them. Dissemination can be done through various mediums: exhibitions, publications, videos and a variety of print and online mediums. Dissemination is important, because it gives a platform for all the stakeholders to connect to the public. It also acts a stage where reflection happens from both the organisers and participants and which is later fed in the forthcoming programs. Dissemination also becomes crucial as this is the stage which connects the craft community to varied experts ranging from fellow craftspeople, designers, industry experts, entrepreneurs, academicians and society at large.
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about Technological advancement has been constantly opening up exciting and enhanced possibilities to interact with people, objects and spaces. New technologies are immensely changing our ways of learning. From various ďŹ eld experiences we may infer that the traditional craft communities have remained unaware and ignorant of new technologies. In India, traditional crafts and practices have always remained important to sustain the living heritage and livelihood of many communities. Through this project we are trying to explore possibilities of enhancing traditional crafts with the introduction of new technologies. Kala Kosh exploration is an experiment with traditional potters of Gundiyali, Kutch. This project is supported by Ford Foundation and National Institute of Design, India and is in collaboration with DICRC, CEPT University.
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field research The collaboration of DICRC and the craft community at Gundiyali has been a successful ongoing project which aided in choosing this project. Project was divided into three stages: first stage of the project is the field visit, understand the craft cluster and generate multiple ideas as per broad goal of project.
The second stage revolved around one central idea. Based on the study and interests of the craftsmen the idea of Kala Kosh was established and a prototype was discussed. The third phase of the project was to install the prototype at the village for long durations and was given to the craft community for various observations which were recorded and analysed. A weeklong field research and interaction with the community was initiated.
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Modules for Kala Kosh :
Module II ViewBox for viewing products from archive in a 3d hologram
Module I DocBox for documenting products and storing into archive
Kala Kosh : Possibile Impact
Store and View all creations at one place
See skills improving
Preserve digital artifacts Triggers to practice even if it is sold or broken and innovative more
Retail Stores Museums/Exhibits
Keep Connected
Online Channels
Kala Kosh
digital archive Storage
Value in Future
Viewing
Digital Repository of Artifacts of community Inspiration for upcoming generation of craft community
Community Level Enables community sharing
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Enables cmmunity learning
Collective community growth
Help the craft Sustain in community
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the idea The idea is about enabling artisans of Gundiyali to make a digital archive for their artefacts and explore all possibilities to enhance their craft practices. The idea of the digital archive gave rise to questions such as: How can they preserve an identical copy of the artefact? What kind of possibilities an archive would create? How user friendly is this archive? What does such enhancement mean to the artisan? Can new technologies inspire the upcoming generation of craft practitioners? Setting up the Kala Kosh prototype answers to these questions would be explored.
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Making and setting up of basic prototype :
Planning for Basic Prototype
Testing
Setting up at Gundiyali
Demonstrating Idea of Kala Kosh to artisans of Gundiyali :
Demonstration
Setup and hologram of a scanned object
Discussion with artisans
Discussing working of prototype
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Artisan capturing his prototype demonstration
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prototype In order to develop the idea further it was essential to interact with the artisans regarding the prototype being a part of their daily life. Firstly, a basic prototype was set up at Gundiyali which was demonstrated to the artisans. The basic prototype was to make digital version of artefacts which translated into 3 dimensional holograms. Prototype was in its raw version so the artisans were exposed to the electronic components. Prototype was built using open source technologies like Arduino and Processing.
After the demonstration, the artisans were curious to know how the prototype would work, what would be the cost? How would one use it without any computing knowledge? Based on the questions asked the research team could easily conclude that the artisans were convinced. The curiosity of the young artisans gave rise to an improved design.
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Kala Kosh Detailed Prototype Design DocBox : Docuementation Module
ViewBox : View Module
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This module contains a turntable, camera and card identification modules and a button.
This module is a display unit. While storing new objects it works as a demo display.
When artisans want to store new object this box is where they place object and identitifcation card and press the button to start the storage process. .
While viewing objects it shows object in three sided hologram and with information of artisan/maker.
Storing objects in archive :
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prototype design A detailed prototype design was developed and introduced to the community. Kala Kosh prototype design included multiple aspects from physical forms, electronics, programming, user interface design and other aspects like identification of artisan and hologram display. A simple manual was designed for the ease of installation. •This module contains a turntable, camera and card identification modules and a button. The artisans could store new objects by placing the object on the turntable and an identification card would be inserted at the slot provided and press the button to start the storage process. •This module is the display unit. While storing new objects it works as a demo display While viewing objects it displays object in three sided hologram and with information of the respective artisan/maker.
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Designing and making of detailed Prototype
g Planning for a detailed prototype
Prototype development started in with developing each module
Testing coordination of programs, mechanical parts and electronics
Designing and assembling various physical controls with electronics
Testing all modules, programs and electronic components
Customizing Raspberry Pi for easy start and setting up auto cloud backup
Making Kala Kosh modules using digital fabrication
Final integrating of all components
Making case for the DocBox module
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prototype making On completion of a detailed prototype, multiple iterations of design of forms and user interaction design was made available. As artisans were not familiar with computing technologies an extremely simple user interface design was attempted. Open source technologies and digital fabrications accelerated the making of prototype. The members contributed were diverse with their respective field expertise. Integration of modules and panels were composed into two boxes. Many rounds of testing took place to ensure all errors were resolved and the Kala Kosh project remains in a resolved state.
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Setting up detailed prototype of Kala Kosh Storing new product in Kala Kosh
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Viewing products in Kala Kosh
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next step People of varied expertise contributed towards the completion of the Kala Kosh prototype. Integration of modules and panels were composed into two boxes. Many rounds of testing took place to ensure that all errors were resolved and Kala Kosh installation was narrowed down to teo units.
Kala Kosh is an ongoing research project and it will be installed at Gundiyali. Dierent identity cards will be provided to the craftsmen and a workshop will be organized for demonstration and the prototype will be tested for dierent scenarios. Field testing and observations will take place and impact analysis will be done. The artisans feedback will dictate the final design.
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Project disseminationMaker fest
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about Maker Fest is the Indian continuation of Maker Faire hosted across America, Europe, Africa and Japan. Maker Faire, which launched in California in 2006, now hosts hundreds of thousands attendees. It is the amalgamation of festivals celebrating the innovators and an art show with booths for inventors, demonstrations, and workshops for attendees. Stretching from every corner of India, Maker Fest is about developing a great maker community where people can learn and share about making. Creators, artists and hobbyist across the country are invited to present their contemporary applications of ideas using the vast ocean of art, science and technology. We welcome the entire maker community in India to come together to ideate, build and share. The community of Gundiyali as one entity came together to showcase their techniques and ideas. The fest was a 3 day event that brought together the making community of diverse fields.
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demonstration The 3 day event gave the urban fabric complete access to meeting the artisans. The aim was to rekindle the dying pottery art. The public was exposed to the making of the mud art. With the guidance of the artisans, different kinds of pots of various sizes were made by the people themselves. The idea was to initiate interaction, sharing of ideas and to arrive at a final product. The potters curated the exhibition, giving them a glimpse of an entire new set up. Essentially, with the help of a demonstration unit the interaction was elevated. 2 demonstration units were set up to cater to the multitude of people. The products that were as a result of the Self -Initiated Challenge model were displayed alongside with individual cards of the potters with their contact and respective expertise information. This was a step to bridge the gap that exists between the public and the artisans.
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digital archive The Maker Fest become a stage that brought together two ends of the design spectrum: Arts and Technology. In collaboration with National Institute of Design and Ford Foundation, a digital archive was established. The Digital archive comprised of a 3 dimensional holographic display was used as a tool for the artisans to document the mud products that they worked on. This unit of display would work in favor of the farmers in case the products were misplayed or broken, they could revert back to this display unit. The display unit is a prototype set up. However, the prototype would be subjected to improvisation dictated by the convenience of the artisans. This prototype on final approval will be installed at Gundiyali for the ease of documentation.
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DICRC is supported by Industrial Extension Cottage (iNDEXT-c), Government of Gujarat, India. iNDEXT-c is a State Government Scheme under Cottage and Rural Industries (Commissioner of Cottage Industry). Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC), CEPT University, Ahmedabad To know more, visit the official website : www.dicrc.in Contact : +91-7265800050, email: dicrc@cept.ac.in
