integrate media-making into change-making practice to knit impact collaborations to deepen public insight & transformation.
with a focus on strategy and systems to orchestrate robust individual and collective purpose, presence, sustenance.
facilitate education communities to work to integrate empathy as a skill through problem solving in daily practice...and create new insight.
...with collectives & communities
Our focus:
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a leader in design thinking for empowered enterprise
...with schools & professional education
Our focus:
We facilitate problem solving with a hands-on design thinking approach that....
▶︎ integrates systems change & design thinking to strategy, roll out & impact measurement;
▶︎ employs design thinking & action research to programme feasibility,campaign/project planning;
▶︎ integrates empathy as a skill for problem solving;
▶︎ curates spaces & events for public communication;
▶︎ mentors for leadership within an outcome-oriented frame;
▶︎ coaches for impact to combine media making and social change.
...and to evolve and deepen insight to...
▶︎ craft entrepreneurship that creates meaningful profit for wider well-being.
at the strategy level
...reimagine issue-based change through media-making.
approach …establish spaces for impact collaboration in socio-economic, environmental issues with media making.
framework …Involve communities to engage with their issues through media-making.
evolve insight ...among individuals, communities, organisations through making media-making an integrated and significant part of change-making.
to trigger stepped up public inquiry, reflection and mobilised action ...by making collective choices based on stories, information, data for collective progress and transformation, and; defines and presents ‘new citizenry’ engagement.
to inspire & mobilise in the public domain ...by creating compelling 'public pitches' to trigger wider commitment to the issue/enterprise.
Our focus:
...with projects & campaigns
through design thinking as the mechanism for change-making, we work to create a ground swell of impact with entities and communities that see themselves as part of a wider grid-work of transformation
...with informed empathy and deepened insight as the glue.
level 1: build collective empathy & relevance
evaluate and equip teams as self-organising units – with agility and cohesion of focusing on: ‘role’ - as a sense of self; ‘alignment’ – for team purpose; ‘impact’ – collective clarity on effectiveness.
level 2: plan for impact
envisage and construct action & capacity with a view to making an impact; frame the impact you intend to create; paint your story of impact & purpose.
level 3: assess impact
gauge and measure the shifts against the impact you intended to create (break down impact into bite sizes); track the story of impact; repeatedly revisit the pathway of impact.
level 4: active induction
prepare and orient new members of the collective so that people identify with ‘the purpose’ assimilate ‘their role’ become part of the ‘common purpose’.
SOME OF OUR LATEST VENTURES ...in collective enterprise
life*sustained ...a social enterprise connecting artisans and consumers directly.
- reimagining civil society ...a collaborative design process.
- bridge institute - impact assessment ...systems change designed collectively: measuring impact towards the UN sustainable development goals.
- vimor handloom foundation ...designing & curating the 45 year 'arrival' of the foundation - its contribution and the unveiling of its emerging future.
- good pitch karnataka ...constructing & curating a global initiative for social projects with media at the heart of change-making that culminated in a very successful pitching event.
liberal spaces for applied learning that create enterprises of collective action, applied learning, impact and empowerment in primary, secondary and higher education.
institutions imparting a professional education in areas related to development, management, design, law, communications, journalism for budding professionals to build robust professional practice.
create 'encounters'that connect, confront, chance upon new experiential learning and builds a calm & collected mind of conscious intention and attention in a secular culture.
experiential learningis brought about through current experience and ‘recycling’ previous experience.
Across the board this enables...
... a hands-on design thinking work process across & within teams, collectives & communities.
... to build the ‘skill of empathy’ to inquire, understand & relate to the lives of others to create transformation ...from deepened insight.
... empathy & insight as integral to individual & team practice- an active element of day-to-day thinking & action to develop & deepen the ability to generate knowledge, enable application, create impact.
...space crafted that is synchronised & 'anti-silo' to coherently bring together experiential learning through content & curation for applied learning, and an enhanced individual & collective experience.