Social Design

5 minutes read—16 Jun 2024

Can children invent for social good? How might we enable children to be at the frontiers of social innovation? To answer these questions, I stayed in a tribal village in India for a year teaching children leadership skills through design thinking. Here's a story behind my non-profit initiative and how we've impacted 1200+ children from 3 rural areas (also a short segway in which I was chased by a...

40 minutes read—15 Aug 2020

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13 minutes read—15 Aug 2020

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5 minutes read—21 Jul 2019

The Lead By Design program started about 5 months back in Auroville, Pondicherry for a group of 11 students from two different communities, the edayanchavadi and kottakarai village communities. It was in the initial phase difficult to get these communities together, especially the parents to allow their children to learn with each other owing to their varied social backgrounds. There were certain...