Design India Foundation

Funding education for the children of traditional bamboo artisans, to enable them to sustain their craft and livelihoods.

Enabling design studios that are working in the bamboo sector, such as Sangaru Studio, Beeja and others, to take their work to a larger audience. Craft revival through mentoring and collaboration, also with NID and other design institutes, firms.

Providing the design community a platform to make a difference in lives and livelihoods, through mulitdisciplinary involvement.

Existing Funding done by 4 entities:Vaibhav Studios, Idea Spice, Diana Irani, Priya Prakash

Taking inspiration from and taking the work done by MPRanjan in his lifetime, forward.

DIF is participating in the 'Beauty of Recycling' Festival in Pune on Dec 19 2015, partnering with eCoexist, in a panel discussion on how design impacts social change, specifically in the area of waste management and recycling. Also, Anuj Sharma brings Button Masala to eCoexist, to work with them in the coming year.

Design has the power to transform the world. Designers, today, are agents of social change as well as leaders in finding solutions for humanity. They are serving in a far more challenging but urgently needed, greatly expanded and socially more responsible role in the world today by creating communications, products and experiences that impact quality of living. The power to create form, process or product has the power to transform cultures, enhance education values, cultivate communities and build a nation. From urban planning of cities and towns, to a product in the healthcare field, design is intersecting our lives on a daily basis.

The rockstars that make it all happen.

Vaibhav Kumaresh, Sushanth CS, Suranjana Kumaresh, Siddharth Kabra, Siddharth Chatterjee, Shailaja Shah, Shaaz Ahmed, Sandeep Sangaru, Sajith Ansar, Rajesh Dahiya, Priya Prakash, Meghna Ajit, Mugdha Sethi, Hemant Suthar, Eeks Suresh, Diana Irani, Deborah Zama, Anuj Sharma, A. Bala. Subramaniam