Tiny Farm Friends

Karan Patel 🌱 is the visionary founder of Aanushrav, an awe-inspiring farm nestled in Anand, where he is reviving ancient lifestyle by practicing sustainable 🌾 agriculture, traditional 🏗️ construction, natural 🧵 textile dyeing, artisanal 🍞 sourdough bread baking, crafting 🍓 natural jams, extracting colors from 🌼 flowers, and even adding personal touches like 🧶 embroidering and creating your hair care essentials, all while respecting the 🌍 Earth. 💚🏡

What You'll Learn: 

🌱 How you can embody a holistic sustainable lifestyle. 

🌱 How to know whether the farm life is for you. 

🌱 How you can learn things by doing 

🌱 Why sustainability is a journey and not a destination

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🌱 Olivia is a permaculture designer and the author of the captivating blog "Shared Earth Living," where she shares her journey of transition from the city to the country, 🌍 following her heart's desire for a more sustainable life based on respect for the Earth and all the creatures in it.

What You'll Learn:
🌱 Living in the Present: Discover the transformative power of embracing your dreams now, without waiting for the "perfect" moment. 

🌱 Navigating Roadblocks: Learn how Olivia overcame obstacles along her journey, and gain inspiration for overcoming challenges in your own pursuit of transformation. 

🌱 Skill Acquisition for Transitions: Uncover the importance of acquiring the right skills to navigate significant life transitions successfully. 

🌱 Aligning Values and Actions: Explore the significance of aligning personal values with intentional actions to create a more authentic and purposeful life.

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🌱 Connect with Olivia 
Website: https://shared-earthliving.com/
Instagram: @shared_earthliving

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Midushi is a visionary 🥚 Indian industrial designer and founder of YLEM, a circular design and research studio. Her practice revolves around researching materials and techniques for rebuilding symbiotic relationships and fostering the circular economy in our daily lives. Co-founder of Makers on Move, she's a driving force in sustainable arts, design, research, technology, and education.

What You'll Learn: 
🥚 Gain inspiration from Midushi's insights on the intersection of design, sustainability, and biodesign. 
🥚 Discover innovative ways to turn waste into artful creations. 
🥚 Embrace the potential of circular and eco-conscious practices for a better future. 🌱🎨♻️

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🥚 Connect with Midushi Website: https://www.ylemofficial.com/ Instagram: @ylem.official

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Anjali is a woodworker based in Delhi, India, currently studying fine woodworking at The Krenov School. 🪵 Her woodworking journey began with a desire to intimately connect with nature, understanding its ever-changing properties. 🌿🌳Anjali's passion and curiosity are boundless, inspiring you to embark on your own creative explorations. 🌟🎨

What You'll Learn:

1. Appreciate the beauty of woodworking and its connection to nature.
2. Be inspired by Anjali's passion and unwavering curiosity.
3. Embrace new creative endeavors and explore hidden wonders.
4. Celebrate the art of woodworking and fuel your creative soul.
5. Let Anjali's enchanting tales and insights inspire your artistic explorations.

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🪵 Connect with Anjali on Instagram - @_ki.ato

 

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Aarti is an architect, with a deep interest in ecological design and the visual arts. Her interdisciplinary practice - based out of a small village in Uttarakhand in the Central Himalayas of India - explores interconnections between ecology, design, climate, culture, and social identity.

⛰️ What you will learn:

⛰️ Following your instincts

⛰️ Working in the hills of Uttarakhand

⛰️ Living a life in the countryside

⛰️ Why city people are moving to the hills

⛰️ Ghost villages of Uttarakhand

⛰️  Gift Economy

⛰️  Building beauty

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⛰️ Connect with Aarti Linkedin

Instagram: @aartinabox , @StudioKumaon

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Mansi Kabra is the founder of Angai, a social enterprise located in rural Odisha that utilizes local resources to produce handmade soaps and supports the livelihood of tribal women. She works as an associate director and a storyteller at the Good Business Lab.

🧼 What you will learn: 

🧼 Choosing must at the crossroads in life 

🧼 Sneak peek into the development sector 

🧼 Starting a Social Enterprise 

🧼 Working in a remote village in Orissa 

🧼 Working for an NGO in Burkina Faso 

🧼 Making time for learning new things

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🧼 Connect with Mansi Linkedin

Instagram: @emkay.28, @angaisoap

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Shubhi is a multidisciplinary designer who believes that everything we call waste, can be put to use. Her current practice, Material Library of India, focuses on investigating value chains and making waste materials come to life again. 
 

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♻️ Time Stamps 00:00:00 - Intro 

00:06:28 - Background Story 

00:10:09 - Disconnect as a conscious designer 

00:12:59 - Masters in material futures 

00:17:25 - Material Library of India 

00:21:15 - Good and bad materials 

00:24:58 - Material Literacy 

00:32:15 - Processes 

00:35:20 - Multi-disciplinary approach 

00:38:37 - Inspirations in life 

00:41:24 - Material innovations 

00:46:00 - Message to everyone
 

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♻️ Connect with Shubhi 

Website: http://materiallibraryofindia.com/ Ted Talk: Rebirth of Materials for Tedx, Chandigarh, India, 2018 https://youtu.be/cKwEjWvOqz8 

Instagram: @material_library_of_india , @shubhisachan

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Shneel Bhayana is an Architect, a Biodesign Researcher, a social entrepreneur, and a TEDx Speaker. In this conversation, we talk about her journey from being an architect to becoming a bio-architect, the background story of her Indus project, the need for interdisciplinary partnerships, and her vision for the future.

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🦠 Time Stamps 

00:00:00 - Intro 

00:03:43 - Background Story 

00:06:47 - Approaches to achieving sustainability 

00:10:15 - Understanding organisms and growing them 

00:13:26 - Experiments with Hydrogel 

00:15:12 - Working in Multi-Disciplinary teams 

00:21:36 - Backend story of the Indus Project 

00:28:08 - Kolkatta bangle makers 

00:32:20 - Concept Knowledge Theory 

00:35:25- Working on Indus Project Tiles 

00:39:24 - Mission 

00:42:19 - Exploring other possibilities with microorganisms 

00:45:42 - Bus stops in India 

00:52:29 - Advice for young designers

Connect with Tiny Farm Friends

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🦠 Connect with Shneel 

Ted Talk: Designing Living systems to clean polluted water – Bio Architecture for TedxGateway, Mumbai, India, 2020 https://youtu.be/cKwEjWvOqz8 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shneelmalik/ 

Instagram: @induswater; @bio-id; @the_shneel_chronicles 

Twitter: shneelmalik

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Sumit Roy and Sujat Roy are two multi-faceted artistic talents. You cannot put them under a label. Sumit paints, designs, and raps. Sujat is a versatile visual and textile designer. Their art speaks for a generation of urban cultural practitioners who grew up in the face of globalization and corporatization. In this episode, we talk about their creative journeys, their endeavors - Free Speech, and Herock. 

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🎤Time Stamps 

00:00:00 -  Intro

00:01:50 - Sujat's Story

00:11:58 - Sumit's Story

00:21:25 - Early exposure to Art

00:25:00 - Collecting art and learning from

00:26:15 - Inspiring story of Sudip Roy

00:34:30 - Transition from Wall to Digital

00:36:00 - Free Speech

00:43:55 - Sumit Roy Studio

00:46:45 - Herock

00:50:33 - Changing Art forms and decentralizing it

00:57:00 - Open Source project

00:01:01 - Inspiration of Herock and community building

00:01:07 - Other Inspirations

00:01:19 - Social Media

00:01:29 - Failures, struggles, and dreams ahead

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Connect with Sumit Roy

@Sumitroystudio

@sujatroy

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Gaurav MK Wali is an industrial and material designer from India, working against design’s monoculture. His 'Cheer Project' is research into pine needles in which the abundant and unwanted material is developed into a 100% bio-based and biodegradable composite material.

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🌲Time Stamps 

00:00:00 - Background story 

00:03:47 - Genesis of Cheer Project 

00:09:30 - Causes of Forest Fire 

00:16:00 - The process 

00:27:00 - Developing Relationship with local artisans 

00:31:00 - Overcoming Challenges 

00:36:00 - Impact created through collaboration 

00:41:15 - Material Properties and applications 

00:47:40 - Inspiring projects 

00:52:25 - Role of designers

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Connect with Gaurav @wali_who_makes

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