explorations in material culture

through the lenses of people who practice intuitive product design, repair, and adaptive technology services in urban communities.

Jugaad X3

Motown Masala

Across the planet, there are many titles for the people, and the arts and sciences of intuitively mending and adapting locally available material resources to accomplish tasks as a profession, a specialty for survival, or simply for pleasure.

Design Through the Lens of Jugaad | Deepa Butoliya | TEDxCMU

Heritage algorithms, Community production and repair services as infrastructure, the globalization of ideas as commodities, the automation of the management caste, and Communication Design services as the new Drive-Thru.

Following 2023’s Communal Design Collective Futures exhibition, you are invited to participate in a global discussion of mid-21st century material culture,

We are a gathering of people who make, modify, and mend things.