About

The search for new questions, assumptions, conjectures, and possibilities has shaped this initiative to speculate on the future of craft. It began with a desire to understand how craft might speak to contemporary design practices and to wider cultural concerns beyond the boundaries of any single discipline. Rooted in the Indian context yet looking outward, the platform values plural ways of making and thinking, and seeks to cultivate sensitivity toward diverse social and material worlds.

We see craft as knowledge: embodied, tacit, and situated—that has the capacity to shape design futures. The intent is to connect practices across design, architecture, technology, and culture to question how materials, tools, and communities can rethink the way we live and make. Through research, teaching, collaborations, and experiments, we work at the intersection of hands and machines, tradition and modernity, tools and technology, maker and collaborator.

The aim is to move craft from the margins of production to the centre of imagination. We engage with craft not only as heritage but as a critical and generative force: one that can inform decisions, ethics, and forms of living.

- Rishav Jain

Team

The website brings together studios, field engagements, and conversations that inquire into the possible futures of craft in design, culture, and technology.