I am a Textile, Apparel and Social Innovation Designer. My career covers a wide range of paths: from Fashion, Textile, and Craft to now Social Design. I have worked with both private and public sector. I have worked with with several non- profits in various capacity consulting on craft intervention projects and craft documentation.
I have hands on experience of managing various stages of the project encompassing design research, ideation, outreach and planning, orchestrating workshops, and documentation. I have conducted community engagement workshops across cultures, age groups and genders including indigenous and rural communities in India and migrant and exiled communities in France.
My practice extends beyond the studio through a process of ethnographic and participative research investigating the changing contexts of traditional craftsmanship owing to migration, globalization and urbanization and now climate change. Traditional craftsmanship is my chosen lens to understand systems of inequalities, sustainable development and environmental justice.
I am interested in design research, anthropology, and sustainable fashion. I am keen to apply design thinking and human centered design approach to explore craftsmanship as a social mediation tool in contexts of conflict, migration and displacement – rural and urban. Aspiring to support culture preservation, awareness and continuation of dying crafts, I started "It's all folk" (www.itsallfolk.com) in 2015 in Shillong.
Reinitiated in 2022 as a social enterprise, ‘Its all folk’ is currently piloting in the Eastern Himalayas of India. Our mission is to build stewardship based craft economies to incentivise community managed conservation practices in Western Arunachal Pradesh, India.