Bangalore Design Workshop — studiosideproject

Parikrma Learning Center Design Workshop

As part of a week long particpatory workshop in Bangalore India as an introduction to design, Sameena worked together with Artlight Global to engage middle school students at the Parikrma Learning Center in Bangalore India to draw, research, make and build.

The workshop utilized recyclables that the students collected over an 8 month period, and repurposed them into a ceiling canopy. The youth at the Learning center came from marginalized families and many had minimal exposure to architecture and design. The workshop aimed to give young people a new way to look at the world around them and to introduce basic design tools. The hope was that students could realize that even a small architectural intervention like a canopy could enable them to make a change in their community and become advocates through changing and designing the spaces they occupy.