I am an industrial designer and am losing it!. I have lately been thinking the future of production should be "HOMEMADE". Covid19 lockdown forced me to think post-Covid design principles for a sustainable future.

 

My mother and her sisters were bought up in Gandhian idea of Khadi Gram Udyog. She and her sisters learned many cottage production skills like making cloth, dyeing, Jaggery blocks, Batic printing, spice powders, home products, and many more.

 

She has her own set of tools from the sewing machine, hand tools for cooking, crafts, cloth making, gardening, seed making, and so on. Sisters were the most productive product designers during Covid times in my family. They stitched masks, brewed spice powder, food products like dry Purans, Ayurvedic mixes, and used local Dunzo to deliver to anyone needed all FREE of cost!. For me, this is a revelation in the way we approach product design. 

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Somehow my typical industrial process thinking struggled to think collective sustainable ways of producing and distributing life-saving products our society needs today. Gandhian methods came alive and showed me the power of community, collective, cottage nature-friendly systems which should be a blueprint for India. 

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She re-used cotton cloth and stitched in a spirit of service to others. This feeling of service and contentment is impossible in the Industrial process. 

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