Reviving Kachchhi and Indian Handicrafts using Design Intervention and Technological Innovation

After a short albeit formative stint in Corporate America, I moved back home and took the next year off to…Eat, Pray, Love my way through what was essentially a period of rest and (intense) retrospection to contemplate what I wanted my career trajectory to look like going forward. Then through a serendipitous chain of events, I was introduced to Kirit Dave and Preeti Shroff, two of the founding members of KPMD Ideas and Designs LLP. They were looking to collaborate with someone with technical and engineering proficiency interested in working on challenges in the creative world and I was looking for opportunities that would allow me to use my technical skills in a creative environment. I’ve spent a large portion of my recent years travelling and living in places all around the world and for a large part have left my own homeland unexplored. So I decided to spend the summer in Kachchh immersing myself in their world of handicrafts. As someone who hadn’t sewn as much as a button, it was a summer of many firsts. <a href="https://keerthipradaa.medium.com/reviving-kachchhi-and-indian-handicrafts-using-design-intervention-and-technological-innovation-50bec6688e2c">Read More</a>