Across last month at Khoj, I worked on a processing sketch titled, “Before I Visit Vidarbha.” It attempts to carry forward my exploration of urban food systems as a part of the PetPuja project.
Background: Some 90,000 farmers have killed …
The module (attached to the jacket in the picture below) is made from milk packets and cloth. Four pockets are sticked to a foam piece with velcro to stick to the jacket.
The four pockets can be used to sprout …
Tanushri and Shifali, the 3rd year product-design students who were working on some self-watering systems for PetPuja, designed an extension of the Bottle Biology design. A 20 litre water bottle (which many of us in India use as our primary …
The clay self-watering unit
round piece of clay for the bowl
clay pieces ready to be wedged and rolled into a slab
a heavy cloth for support at the base
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flat cut-outs
Rashmi Sirkar, a second year design student at Srishti has been working on a small (20-page) illustrated handbook on urban farming for CitySpinning. A draft is now ready and is available for download using the link below.
The handbook gives …
After we found that clay conducts water through itself very effectively, we went ahead with making reforming the pot in a pot mechanism. Using clay itself as a medium through which water is transferred.
Redesigning the pot: It is a …
Poster of the teaser poster for the tree-mounted self-watering unit which Tanushree and Shifali have organized at the Srishti old campus.…
Before this:
fusing the mouth of tube by melting it
pouring molten wax to make waterproof hole which did not work
applying Mseal on both sides
cycle spare parts for pulley
selecting the tree
carrying the stuff to the tree…
