These initiatives are in various stages of conceptual development, resource gathering, and partnership building. We welcome collaborators, funders, and provocateurs.

[Details to be added. Placeholder for the Otenga Initiative — a project currently in conceptual development. Write to us if you would like to learn more or contribute to its shaping.]

A 3-month residential laboratory co-hosted with an Indian craft cluster — perhaps the handloom weavers of Kullu or the pottery communities of Andretta — in which contemporary designers and technologists work alongside master artisans to explore how digital fabrication, material science, and traditional making can genuinely enrich each other (rather than the one displacing the other). Outputs include new products, a documented methodology, and a policy brief on craft-tech integration.

A prize recognising design work — at any scale, in any medium — that demonstrates exceptional empathy, genuine collaboration with communities, and contribution to ecological or social sustainability. Unlike most design prizes, the VST Prize is judged entirely by a community panel — not design professionals — on the criterion of real-world impact on real people’s lives.

Feb 22 – 23, 2027
Alliance Française de Delhi
Address: 72, KK Birla Ln, Lodhi Gardens, Lodhi Estate, 110003, New Delhi

Feb 25 – 27, 2027
Lalit Kala Akademi
Address: Middle Bazar, The Mall, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh 171001