Biographies
UnBox Cultural Futures Society
Founded by Quicksand, UnBox Cultural Futures Society is a platform exploring new narratives and building action at the intersection of disciplines, to reimagine India’s plural futures. As part of its agenda, UnBox creates festivals, labs and publications that bring together diverse practitioners from India and abroad for collaboration and expressions.
UnBox has its origins as an international design festival initiated in 2011 and has gone on to incubate platforms such as UnBox Labs, Eyemyth Media Arts Festival and Future Fiction. Over the years UnBox has partnered with and supported the British Council, Goethe Institut, Arts and Humanities Research Council, National Institute of Design, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Mozilla Foundation and What Design Can Do.
FutureEverything
Established in Manchester in 1995, FutureEverything is an award-winning innovation lab and cultural organisation that has helped shape the emergence of digital culture in Europe.
Through a curated programme of events, art commissions, critical conversations, collaborative projects and prototyping, FutureEverything pushes creative boundaries and stimulates new ways of thinking, across a diverse range of sectors, disciplines and audiences. Taking an action-research, artist-led and human-centred approach, FutureEverything is passionate about bringing people together to discover, share and experience new ideas for the future, creating opportunities to question and reflect on the world around us.
Acknowledgements
Living Crafts was made possible with the support of the British Council under the Crafting Futures India-UK Collaboration Scheme 2019-20, and many other people across India and the UK.
Team
Aanchal Sodhani, Irini Papadimitriou, Neha Singh, Riya Gokharu, Shreya Dalmia
Creative Collaborators
We would like to thank the collaborators who gave us their time and shared with us their vision for crafts – Ayaz Basrai (The Busride Lab), Ayush Kasliwal (AKFD Studio), Janet Gunter (The Restart Project), Justin Marshall (Northumbria University), Malika Verma (Border & Fall), Neelam Chhiber (Industree Foundation), TB Dinesh (Janastu).
Funded by
British Council
Special thanks to
The extended team at Quicksand – Rhea Muthane, Salil Parikh and Sawani Kumar for all of the foundational work on the project. Manjunath Babu for assisting with research in Bangalore. Ritika Khinvasara for illustrating the city maps. Avinash Kumar and Babitha George for their support throughout the project.
Living Crafts
Research Stories
Riya Gokharu, Shreya Dalmia
Copy Editing
Ananya Singh
Future Stories
Yuvraj Jha, Monkeyverse
Illustration & Animation
Akshay Manjrekar
Web Development
Reussis Infotech
Design & Art Direction
Neha Singh
Typeface
Moderat, TIGHTYPE
Tiempos, Klim Type Foundry
