Social Design Collaborative

Participatory architectural/art/research practice in #communitydevelopment #selforganisation #housingrights

[Social Design Collaborative @SocialDesCollab]

We do what we do because we see its impact on people's lives.

When we recently visited the creche we designed with @SEWABharat @sewa_delhi1 & #rearc institute a year ago, we realized that #disabilityinclusion has emerged as a life changing impact for many students. @SaifiWamiq

[Social Design Collaborative @SocialDesCollab]

So glad that the design of our pilot creche built with @SEWAdelhi1 @SEWABharat is #scalingup across 150 homes in rural Bihar. The design strategies will be adapted to #carepreneur homes in Katihar & Gaya creating livelihoods & bringing access to education & nutrition to hundreds.

[Social Design Collaborative @SocialDesCollab]

And here's a quick guide on the #ICDS Integrated Child Development Scheme in India, along with initial policy and design recommendations on improving the learning environment and quality of key services: https://t.co/xtSvy8GvxJ

[Social Design Collaborative @SocialDesCollab]

As #ICDS Scheme in India completes 50 years, we want to share the #opensource booklets we have made over the years to spread awareness on the scheme and help communities avail it.

Here is a step-by-step manual to help social workers set up an anganwadi: https://t.co/kXwLyjt8BE

[Social Design Collaborative @SocialDesCollab]

Design & construction is just half of our work. The other half is its dissemination at different levels.

Here are some design strategies used in Delhi’s first Anganwadi-cum-Creche designed by us with @WCD_Delhi @MinistryWCD @rashmisinghIAS @mobilecreches: https://t.co/7194aEW7AC

[Swati Janu @janu_swati]

Glad that @SocialDesCollab has designed the first anganwadi-cum-creche in Delhi under the Palna scheme with @WCD_Delhi @Mobile_Creches @rashmisinghIAS.

Inaugurated by Delhi CM @CMODelhi & Union Minister @MinistryWCD who announced the development of 502 such centres across Delhi.

[Rekha Gupta @gupta_rekha]

दिल्ली के नए पालनाघर नन्हें बच्चों के लिए पोषण, देखभाल और ममता से भरा सुरक्षित घर बनेंगे।

सबसे बड़ी ताक़त उन कामकाजी माताओं को मिलेगी, जो अब निश्चिंत होकर अपने सपनों को उड़ान देंगी और जिम्मेदारियों को सहजता से निभा पाएंगी।

#SevaParv #15Din75Seva

[Social Design Collaborative @SocialDesCollab]

On our recent public art project across Jaipur and on the "publicness" of public spaces.

https://t.co/MasgXfqmY7

[Swati Janu @janu_swati]

Here’s an #opensource online learning module for university teachers on #countermapping as a bottom-up tool for participatory planning: https://t.co/yo92Wxi4Lc co-created with Greg Randolph at @GeorgiaTech. Hope it can be helpful for students, architects, geographers, activists!

[Social Design Collaborative @SocialDesCollab]

How can we retrofit small spaces into vibrant learning environments?

Here’s a glimpse at our recently completed pilot creche with @SEWABharat @SEWAdelhi1 as part of a multi-year initiative to build better day care centres as community infrastructure in informal settlements.

[Swati Janu @janu_swati]

So happy to see these beautiful photos by @SaifiWamiq of the daily life of public installations by @SocialDesCollab for #JaipurArtWeek2025 where people have taken over the artworks sleeping, eating, vending, sitting, integrating it with the public life at Jal Mahal & Albert Hall.

[Social Design Collaborative @SocialDesCollab]

What is art about if not public engagement? We've always wanted to create artworks that people from all walks of life can play in, climb, sit on. So glad to do it in Jaipur at the public spaces of Jal Mahal & Albert Hall Museum for the Jaipur Art Week 2025. It's on till 12th Feb!

[Social Design Collaborative @SocialDesCollab]

We took around mobile versions of the traditional balcaos, across Panjim main market, the bus stand and the promenade by the sea, as a spontaneous way of creating conversations.

The 'Traveling Balcaos' have now found a permanent home at the community libraries of @BookwormGoa :)

[Social Design Collaborative @SocialDesCollab]

#PublicArt for us means creating conversations in #publicspaces. That’s what our itinerant public artwork with @urbz_ “Traveling Balcaos” tried to do in Panjim last month, commissioned by @Thukralandtagra for the @FestSerendipity

More here @Navhind_Times https://t.co/lwLlMM13Ew

[Swati Janu @janu_swati]

How can public art go beyond gallery spaces further into #publicspaces, engaging with people from all walks of life? ‘Traveling Balcaos’ was one such #placemaking & #publicart collaboration by @SocialDesCollab & @urbz_ commissioned by @Thukralandtagra for @FestSerendipity in Goa.

[Social Design Collaborative @SocialDesCollab]

"It took 42 years before a black architect was awarded the Pritzker Prize. There have only been six women so far who have been awarded the prize since it was first instituted in 1979" - @janu_swati

Thanks for the feature @wallpapermag on our practice

https://t.co/1DDxPsxpY6

[Social Design Collaborative @SocialDesCollab]

Like Goa’s balcãos welcome friends at the entrance of their homes, this @FestSerendipity invites you through our project ‘Traveling Balcãos’ with @urbz_

Public space artworks in the form of mobile balcãos will move around Panjim on 10th, 11th & 12th Dec. Join us to participate!

[Social Design Collaborative @SocialDesCollab]

What role can architectural design play in improving quality of education & day care for children? How can the walls, floor, windows become educational tools for learning & play?

Udaan #anganwadi is a pilot classroom designed to co-locate anganwadis in govt schools in India.

[Swati Janu @janu_swati]

India’s #NEP directs co-location of #anganwadis within govt schools. Otherwise run from rented spaces in cities, what can a standalone anganwadi look like in a govt school designed with its users?

That’s what our pilot @SocialDesCollab sets out to find, built with @UPMahilaKalya

[Swati Janu @janu_swati]

Thanks @thinkmatter for this in-depth interview of our team @SocialDesCollab talking about our process & studio culture: https://t.co/BOnBXLPcDY

"Design is a conversation for us... We don't have a client & architect relationship – it's more of a shared ownership model"