Kala Kosh

Kala kosh is a community driven innovation project started by New Media Designer Bhargav Padhiyar with the craft community of Gundiyali working on pottery. Kala kosh is aimed to be placed at villages of these communities where the artisans can use it to archive their art in 3d-holographic format.

Project Synopsis

Technological advancements are constantly opening up novel and exciting possibilities of interacting with people, objects and spaces of our environment. New technologies are changing the way we used to live and learn. Historically, technological advancement was seen as threat to handicrafts. In India, traditional handicrafts are primary livelihood source of many communities and representation of country’s cultural identity; hence a living heritage to be preserved from winds of change. Somehow these traditional craft communities of India have remained unaware and ignorant of new technological advancements. Interestingly, these technological developments which were once seen as threat to handicrafts have given birth to sub-cultures like ‘Maker Movement’, ‘DIY Culture’ and ‘Open Source Movement’ which presents an optimistic and social perspective of making with new technologies. Connecting the dots this research based design project explores possibilities of enhancing traditional craft practices using new technologies.

My role in the project

My role in this project was to implement a module, which can store and log images systematically in a designed folder-structure according to the user cards locally in the raspberry pi. The module also sent the images and the logged information to a remote server, to improve administration of the tool remotely. Later this data was used to fetch images and user info on the Kala Kosh website.

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