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Landscapes of Love, Sharing and Co-Creation
Anil K Gupta, Marianne Esders, Chetan Patel, Unni Nair, R. Baskaran Honey Bee Network, SRISTI & IIMA
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Why wouldn’t many architects learn from the communities which have tried to integrate nature?
Ladakh
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Bowing before nature- Ahmedabad, Gujarat
In Ahmedabad, we have sacred trees being worshipped by the people who tie a fragile thread around a strong trunk of tree seeking solace, safety and strength.
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Fragile thread, strong trunk, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
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Bonds of reverence - Ahmedabad, Gujarat
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Fragility is the foundation of love.
Without being vulnerable, we are seldom able to access feelings in our own inner recess.
Authenticity,
so fundamental to make a breakthrough, requires a little schizophrenia
between the inner and the outer of our being.
The built environment, urban landscape, narrow corridors, common spaces and intertwining of nature and human
habitations call in question our authenticity.
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Corridors of intimacy. One of the many “secret” shortcuts in Ahmedabad’s old part of the city.
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The focus of the Honey Bee Network has been primarily rural, but for the last few years, effort has been made to
look at urban common property management, innovations, institutions and educational networks to leverage their resourcefulness while connecting them with material
resource inadequacies of the rural areas.
Honey Bee Network founded in 1987-‐1988 A nameless, faceless innovator or tradi>onal knowledge holder comes into contact with the Network and gets an iden>ty, voice, visibility and viability of its sustainable vision .
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The local people believe that the breeze triggered by the fluttering of the wings of the pigeons is very healthy for the people living there.
Purulia, West Bengal
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In Gujarat, we have found hundreds of villages and also some urban settlements having bird feeding platforms.
Many communities in dry regions brought their values of
animal care to the urban settlements.
The regions prone to drought and thus having periodic scarcity of grains have invariably been found to have more places for feeding birds than the more developed regions.
The less you have, the more you share.
And not just with human beings but also with the non-
human sentient beings.
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Learning to share - Chabutra, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
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Chabutra, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
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Chabutra, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
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Shared spaces, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
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I take students for an urban walk to
observe, listen, learn and share the spirit
with roadside vendors, fabricators, service providers and
children.
I also encourage students to join a Shodhyatra – learning walk – in the Himalayas.
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Learning on the move.
We learn from four teachers: from within, among peers, from nature and from common people.
At 15.000 feet, Leh, Ladakh
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The double decker bridge grown from tree roots drawn from the two sides of the river in Cherapunji, Megalaya is an ultimate testimony of sustainability, renewability and collective action.
If people did not cooperate, the technology would not work.
Its institutional context provides continuity.
Three pillars of sustainability – technology, institutions, culture - Cherapunji, Megalaya
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Creating public open source standards of excellence.
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Recognising the traditions of excellence – an eye for detail! Leadership is to look for excellence in every day life, all around, even on roadsides.
AnantNag., Jammu & Kashmir
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Creativity abound.
Saidullah developed an amphibious bicycle.
http://www.youtube.com/user/hbncon
There is no place in the world, which does not have some institutions.
The challenge is to discover them and build upon them.
Our job is not to make people innovative.
Our challenge is to build upon the creative and innovative spirit
That every child is born with.
In the process of growing up, we cover this spirit with so many layers of habits and etiquettes that even we do not know that we have this capability.
Unfolding the creative potential of society is
uncovering the nature within so that resonance with the nature outside can be forged.
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Nature is not only crafting spaces of conservation. It is grafting the values of conservation.
Creepers finding their way, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
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crea%vity, compassion, communica%on and collabora%on
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Autopoiesis at grassroots for inclusive development.
During the period of economic transition from material to knowledge-based economy,
the education systems became far more fragmented, quantitative in their treatment of subjects
and much more divorced from real life conditions.
Countability or measurability became important.
Any thing that could not be measured, was considered not worth the effort.
A change not monitored, is a change not desired.
Variance was sought to be explained only by what was measured.
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Recognising creativity of children and nurturing their dreams. Thank God, children are much less patient with inertia than we are.
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Inverted Model of Innovation Children invent, engineers and designers fabricate, companies deliver.
Harnessing the creative energy of individuals, communities of children, students, farmers artisans, etc.
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Wei Zhi Chuan (Class 10) started playing ping pong at the age of six.
After a lot of practice in the day, his shoes became wet due to seat and left an uncomfortable feeling.
He thought of inventing a “bacterial shoe hanging machine”.
When the shoes are put on hooks in the shoe hanging machine, ultra violet rays and hot air start freshening the shoe and the dampness and odour are removed leaving the shoes fresh.
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Nisha Chaube from NOIDA invented a bag with a folding seat.
Arnab Chakraborty, Class 12, from Kolkatta invented a copedal for bicycle rickshaws.
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Mohammed Usman Hanif Patel, Class 2, from Jalgaon, Maharashtra invented a windmill powered fan.
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Shanu Sharma, Vardan, IITK developed a manual stair climbing wheel chair.
www.techpedia.in
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Image, Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis for people with hearing and speaking disabilities.
Saurabh Saket and Rahul Ranjan from Bhutta College of Engineering & Technology, Ludhiana.
www.techpedia.in
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SATTVIK [pure] Traditional Food Festival
Intellectual capital
Ethical Capital (internal regulations)
Social capital Trust, reciprocity and third part sanctions
External regulation Intellectual property
( that part of ic from the commercial applications of which, one can exclude others for a given
period of time)
Natural capital
commoditization of resources, stored, sold, exchanged,
controlled Source: Gupta, 2001
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Let parrots have their way -, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
How to measure the look and feel of parrot feeding hangers in a balcony.
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Ranchhodbhai, - sanctuary of love - Ahmedabad, Gujarat
How to measure the feeling that motivates a person to collect food and milk to feed the dogs?
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How many people have been misled by the Maslowian philosophy to assume that one could aspire for higher order goals only after meeting basic needs.
How wrong.
A creative soul, even if not assured of the next bread,
would not abandon pursuit of enlightenment.
How could she … would not breath then become burden?
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Almost in every Shodhyatra, we discover unique nuances of cultural expressions of different coping strategies.
Bhabi Mahato – a speaking canvas, Purulia, West Bengal
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Bhabi Mahato – a speaking canvas, Purulia, West Bengal
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A wall full of colour can make any one passing by stop and pause, reflect and reposition one’s compass of creativity.
Daring colours - Jam Singh Jhiri’s, Nandor, Madhya Pradesh
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There are deep-rooted institutional structures, which have created habits of thought and action.
One cannot bring about change without identifying these habits
and stressing the need to overcome them.
Urban spaces have ignored commons at the cost of individual privileges.
Cycle and pedestrian lanes are missing in India but about 25 per cent growth of the auto sector during the last decade
has mesmerised growth planners about dispensability of what a common person needs:
A little space to walk, a safe lane for a child to go to school.
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Crowded street, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
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The urban areas have become the suction pumps for the rural talent. With the increasing rate of urbanisation,
migration of youth is inevitable.
The more accomplished a rural youth is, the higher is the chance that he would not stay in a village.
Unless we create sufficiently inclusive opportunities for them,
the scope for experimentation and innovation may come down.
Distributed facilities for in-situ incubation of ideas are necessary.
The concept of incubation itself needs to undergo a shift.
One may need a sanctuary model.
Where do street children figure in our vision of order and beauty?
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Pressure cooker based coffee maker - frugal innovation by Mohammed Rozadeen, Bihar
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Urban renewal and rejuvenation requires synergy among technology, institution, culture and educational processes.
People who are disadvantaged in terms of material resources,
invariably leverage the resources in which they are rich, i.e., knowledge, values, and institutional networks.
Many of them don’t share their ideas with outsiders. But some do.
A frugal, flexible, friendly innovation conveys what grassroots innovation is all about.
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Rider Induced bicycle Mr. Kanak Das, Assam
Bicycle based sprayer Mr. Mansukhbhai Jagani, Gujarat
Amphibious Bicycle Mohd. Saidullah, Bihar
Bicycle with gear Mr. Jayanti J Patel,Gujarat
Bamboo bicycle Mr. Dodhi Pathak, Assam
Bicycle based mobile spray pump Subhas Vasantrao Jagtap, Maharastra
Multipurpose Bicycle Md. Kamruddin, Rajasthan
Bicycle operated pump Mr. Vikram Rathore, AP
Bicycle based portable Pump Mr. Nasiruddin Gayen, WB
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blending
passion, purpose, persistence, performance through
platforms
SRISTI, GIAN, NIF, Techpedia.in
creating
open source multimedia multi-language content for children, cultural creativity and innovations in governance
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Sustainable alternatives will require collective action without squeezing space for individual entrepreneurial and empathetic creativity.
The paradox of individual aspirations being met through collective consent can be resolved
through creation of new meeting ground between formal and informal sector.
Open innovation platforms are a means in this direction.
Landscapes of love require lighthouses of a shared spirit.
Then the waves of collaboration will deliver various boats to their sought out shores.
Urban regions can aggregate intimate spaces through a collaborative and creative spirit for an
inclusive future.
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Trade-‐offs in Inclusive
Development
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Should accuracy be traded off
with affordability?
Should design overtake durability?
Your Time Club
First meeting of people who had all the time during 2009 economic crisis, redundancy and lay off. Prayas.in, Bangalore
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Creativity counts. Knowledge matters.
Incentives inspire.
Innovations transform.
“Minds on the margin are not marginal minds.”
The mind to market journey needs new meanings.
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“Minds on the margin are not marginal minds.”
Without risk capital for small innovations, social venture funds for revitalising urban spaces,
new opportunities for generating jobs and expanding economic, social and ethical markets may not arise.
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* Open Innovation Platforms.
* Social Open Innovation Funds to create public goods.
* Pooling of IP and open source technologies for commercial uptake.
* Public pool of private IP acquired through funds – GTIAF.
* Network of community fab labs for designing local solutions.
* Innovation Clubs to search, spread, sense and celebrate innovations.
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What next …
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