The core team met for the second time day before. The workshop leads came with their thoughts and overall structures for their respective workshops.
'Toys from Trash' will be run using content created by Dr. Arvind Gupta and available on his website. 'Intro to Design' will use content created by Jhumkee Iyengar and run successfully couple of years ago in rural Maharashtra. 'Multi Jugaad' was a concept that emerged from a Jugaad workshop at IITK couple of months ago, in collaboration with students from KTH, Sweden and Aalto University, Finland. It was presented as a side note at the end of their presentation by Amit Kundal and his team, that sounded very promising and we wished to explore it further. And Sharmila Sen from Kalyani, West Bengal has been training Adivasi women in cross stitch for a while and this is an attempt to run a workshop for women using those experiences.
Kulwant Singh will lead 'Toys from Trash', Shweta Nair 'Intro to Design', Amit Kundal 'Multi Jugaad' and Sharmila 'Jute Kantha Cross Stitch', assisted by Mohit Tewari. Piyush, Pulkit, Koel and others have signed up to co-facilitate. And Tatha will document - which is why he's already missing from this photo!Vinodji came from the village cluster. The harvesting season may create a bit of a conflict he thought, however they've begun the enrollment drive.
We have decided to visit there this weekend to meet the prospective attendees, gauge alternative and suitable locations to conduct these as well as to stay there - did I mention we are planning to stay overnight and Kulwant will cook chicken for us? :)
Vinodji also requested that we give a letter from IITK to the local police station at Rasulabad so they are aware of what this group from outside is suddenly doing in this village!
Workshop leaders today presented their overall plans for the 2 days. The next step will be to detail out the exact activities, roles and create our materials lists.
Very happy to be working with my last year's students again!
20 April, 2015
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