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started with the questions that how do even craft and activism come together and we came across a phenomenon called craftivism so craftivism is a is a movement that some people have named a named craftivism and some people like Betsy Greer and Sarah I am forgetting the last name so what usually happens in a craftivist protest is that they use domestic cards such as embroidery stitching cross stitch knitting and everything to do with the yarns and threads and things like that which can be done domestically and they use it to you know craft messages of against system like you know I saw a protest in which the the messages of gender equality were being you know translated on the how do you say cross stitch and a lot of other means and if we look a little bit more into ravine can you elaborate on this one because I'm not I'm a little bit brave in which we are saying that crafts in war efforts regime changes in yeah khadi movement and women movements you understand but in war efforts like what do you mean mean by war efforts so in that sense like if you go in the mid-century eras right and then we even I think everybody heard about like when Deepu Sultan had the I'm yeah I think I was right that he had the yeah so he used to have the technology of fire right so firearms so firearms was actually the job of craftsmen even when it was discovered by the chinese and then later on taken taken by the europeans for the but they are like sort of expansion world expansion so that's why like crafts played their part during war efforts right so in that sense I can also see like during the world war two also like a lot of women and like are you saying that craftism is also like when we prepare for a war and when crafts help in the preparation of a war in that sense right yeah yeah then we are also looking at crafts for personal affirmation and healing so this this I have like understood like firsthand also like seeing some people in my own life and some friends and family that how crafts are a act of making you know generally helps mental well-being and you know in a sense of healing because there is because what we understood is that when you are you know actually making there is a sense of building towards something so it is actually therapeutic and that is sort of a personal activism that a person can carry with himself and crafts as a tool of operation was one question that we asked that since we are looking at crafts as a voice of the masses and everything then can we also look at craft being used by the state or craft being used by an authority as an as an agent of operation so this was very interesting for us I should say tsunami dolls I mean actually you want to elaborate a little bit you can just open your mic yeah so actually so this umma prajapati started this thing called tsunami dolls when tsunami hit the coast of punditry and all so there were a lot of destructing you know distress amongst artisans so uh so to generate you know some you know and make them busy you know with some work so they came up with this form tsunami dolls which they used to make out of you know waste cloths and then you know they started selling it by you know just for a rupee or two and was go say it it was a movement you know it was kind of a craft movement which started out of nothing out of you know basically just to you know keep them busy and not to make them think about what they've lost in the tsunami so all the artisans were you know were told to make this and it gave them sense of pride and you know along with that they used to sing song while making you know these tsunami dolls so there was a very interesting story around it so because of which it was it is the best example of you know craft being used in a in a therapy so that was a very yeah so similarly they have also launched last month the corona dolls where where they may where all the artisans are making you know this dolls out of their own crafts and they're selling it and so it is part of craft dignity project where do they were they're making corona dolls in a very therapeutic way so that they generate you know employment for the people and also keep them busy that was what i meant so i was just adding to your point so this is a part of the creative dignity the effort that is going on yeah so they're making this corona doll here so that is also for the you know make a therapeutic way so uh artisans ko busy rakhne ke liye so very similar concept to corona doll tha tsunami dolls jo bani thi so that was yeah okay all right previn can we move to the next slide yes okay so this is the image of the craftivist manifesto so this for us was a very interesting uh yeah because for us though we can consider coding is a person of that you can have this chat on the chat all right so the craftivist man this manifesto was a very uh interesting piece of text that we found and praveen went on to read a book on manifestos after this and this was written by the the name of the people are written you know just below the manifesto and you can see the name called betsy greers so this is the person that we have been in touch with a little bit since the last two weeks and we have been trying to get an idea of this movement that they are doing and she's a very lovely lady so you can we can share this workshop with you so so basically it is a it is kind of a if you read the lines which are in color you can really understand what is the agenda so if you so i'll just read one or two lines from the middle so that we get an idea so craftivists open minds and hearts so very generic way of saying that uh you know word craftivism and it stands for and usually the why i like the manifesto was that this is quite holistic to be interpreted in a lot of context so in that way this becomes a very interesting piece of text praveen would like to explain what's happening on the left okay so left is a graffiti by an artist who goes by the name guess who so he during kochi benale i think 2017 he he painted these graffitis all around kochi and i i find that this sort of a craftivism i mean i i didn't consider it a craftivism at a start for me it was a it was an example of activism but yeah like here when we were discussing different meanings of craft i thought that okay this is another way to you know get into the motion of craftivism which is making a point against a particular sort of a system which we inherit in our lives and i think from moving from that uh we had a discussion on last sunday okay oh yeah like he is sort of like banksy shreya so banksy is also an example you can we were considering to have put on the slides but you're like okay we want to tell people like there is a this movement going even in india i think banksy here also yeah all right okay so last sunday as you can see betsy and few of us we we sat and we have had a discussion about these questions we were having like we were considering more than this question these were the starting points for us which was about crafting tools of activism how crafts can facilitate activist agencies or symbolic crafts and general protest versus activism because these were the topics which we discussed before choosing this leg of session which is activism right and for the first thing we were looking at gandhi's activism because as we are all indians i mean from the feed i can see all indians are here so from there it was about you know khadi became a symbolic craft in the sense that people were not even using not only using it for a freedom movement but they were also using it for a spiritual movement and i think there we want to take forward with this yarn bombing because i think you you explored that yeah okay so we just went through this in the last week and these are the few examples that we just curated so starting from gandhi's and the whole ideology so yarn bomber was very interesting but so because yarn bombing is is basically uh it's it's a craft which i thought was a democratic equivalent of something as simple as khadi so idea of khadi was also you know two kind of democratized making and so that everyone can make it themselves so they weren't about you know craft being a very special skill they were being craft being a very egalitarian skill and just going to everyone so in that way i think yarn bomber is one artist but then yarn bombing in itself is a big phenomenon and it is pretty easy to perform an act of yarn bombing for me it became a very easy tool that uh uh you know aspiring craftivist can just take up in that way it was very democratic and we have seen the pink cap movement uh in the us as well that is also quite associated with the you know knitting and other domestic crafts so here we can move on praveen i think yeah yeah steven duniya is also called the yarn bomber right praveen yeah aayush yes he does he does a lot of insulations on live places so he would go out in the real world and knit a few things and cover up things like a huge rock or a tree or something like that and the entire activity is called yarn bombing so he became one of those craftivist people who who does yarn bombing work right and also like if we can go back uh to the slide praveen yeah so for me yarn bombing is also i i don't know if others agree with this seeing this because i i think that major you know uh symbols of power you know they uh are quite masculine in nature i i don't know if i'm saying that coming from point so so i think there's a not uh yarn bombing also has to do with you know deep deep power rising structures because the ones you you know how to say wrap a tank in a yarn it is no longer a you know piece that can induce that fear in you it it kind of takes away the fear and you know brings in a whimsy of sorts so for me yarn bombing was particularly very interesting because it changes the identity of the thing that you are putting it on usually i can move on dominating not exactly masculine yeah true true activism so coming to activism like the early activism what what we where we are coming from when we you know say activism so we started with these words and in the last workshop we were able to kind of map the entire discussion within these uh five six three keywords were more than that actually so there was a talk of dissent that dissent and a friction with the authority or a friction with the rest of the system for a particular entity would count as activism if you are reclaiming symbols that were either once yours or now you want to take away the symbols of certain power that you want to neutralize so reclaiming symbols has become one form of activism and climate activism bio activism are climate activism and bio activism are quite related for us and it has everything to do with you know making people aware and spreading awareness about climate change and what we also understood was a few of the of our younger participants in the last group were actually overwhelmed and indecisive this illusion is a pretty strong word to say but i don't know why we have put it there but he get so overwhelmed and indecisive in the sense that one person for particular i remember she said that you know me coming from a age group of this this this like she was quite young like a first year student a second year student i think and she says that she she does not relate to any activism because there are so many causes to take care of that she's just indecisive to you know actually feel for what was so we actually heard that probably this you know paradox of choice and choosing an activism actually does induce a sort of paralysis in some people in which they cannot choose what caused we went in support because there is so much happening and it is the last two things are self-expression and a message and i think that is very innate thing about any sort of activism that it is a self-expression it is your own sense of you know expressing about the cause and there is of course a message with the yeah with the expression so aakash says that cannot be that i just read it out aakash you could just say it you could open your mic and just just such less people you can just say it out aakash want to speak it yeah can you hear me yeah thank you so i want to say that even activism sorry i joined late and i do not said know the context of it so i'm just reading this slide out and you know the prior slides which has this manifest over the craftism i kind of looked like when you say activism so i'm just suggesting as in stance can we look it from an activist lens at mixed allyship centering the expression of justice is also a form of activism lens that can be included in craftism so when we talk about Mahatma Gandhi or say Gandhi doing khadi movement so from a very critical lens of caste and if you see Gandhi and the leadership it from a political leadership angle what Gandhi did with the khadi movement is kind of calling out people for boycotting and self-reland to mechanism that can you know build the economy and say sustain the economy so he's kind of have this political stand with boycotting the british clothes and clothing system so he kind of somehow allyship with the local indian markets so i'm just saying that in the current context of you know activism can that be looked as an allyship centering the expression of justice for the people who can't participate in a larger political movement so say Gandhi did it as an on-line platform because he was able to do it and we can't just say Gandhi as a you know be the ultimate symbolic figure of khadiism because khadi or say khadi movement or say this craftism is taken from very indigenous population and tribal population that is living in india from a very prior period Gandhi just came in as an you know person who can just take that and you know put it across the screen or say media or say say at that time of media through his own means so i am just saying that in these circumstances can their allyship should also consider this centering the expression of justice for the community who were already there who were doing that thing in their own microcosms of ecosystems but they are not you know at that level of uh that they do not have that level of freedom that the gandhi did at that time and and just that that uh you know i have this stand on uh this only ki how gandhi is always in the front and the you know the craft and the skill and the phenomena of that thing as you know sometimes being sidelined and gandhi put into the picture as a symbolic figure and everyone if you ask from this is a new learner of craftism or say any other person who is coming into this field they will see them him as an then ideal person but if you look at his own career he's been he's shifted something and you know adopted some indigenious practices but centering the gandhi to all the frame would be injustice to the whole picture of it that is what i am saying ki you know yeah aakash like we totally understand that point and that's why like even when we were discussing this thing gandhi was just a starting point for us because we in the discussion there was another thing where we said that gandhi as a symbol of craftivism is no more i feel like i personally said this thing like people can have different interpretations of this but yeah like it's just for me gandhi has become a commodity so for me it's like you know that the importance of gandhi as a symbolic gesture from gandhi is also meaningless right now for me because for me the settings have changed a lot the politics have changed a lot we have we can have much newer symbols much better relationship with the community which we are fighting for or which we want just want the justice for okay and i mean i i don't want to answer anything it's just that we do this thing in a conversational basis so that we could continue in in different directions also so if anybody would also like or if you want to also continue we could continue this discussion or okay on you i'll just i'll just join in i am i audible yeah before also yeah okay so i'm just reading the charts if there are any other yeah aakash what aakash says i think it's a interesting thing that we have kind of i would agree there that particularly considering khadi i am also looking at it right now that khadi is is is not a centralized movement it is a very decentralized movement and what you say that you know shifting allyship is something that i can relate to the narrative that is right now also like moving towards something that is made from credible sources and sustainable sources and the right sources i think that is a bigger question you know a bigger message of khadiism that you know you kind of choose the sources very wisely from where your material is coming from and for me it became kind of a choice based activism that are you making the right choices when you are you know consuming essentially we can go on to the next page also uh now so these are some things that have been picked up but like this is something i i pick up generally contemporary stuff from memes because i feel that yeah memes are contemporary ways of expressions so why not yeah yeah so kind of you know sorry can you move to the next slide eggbar yeah yeah so aayush would you like to add a little bit here okay so in the contemporary time there have been a lot of other movements as well right so for example on the top left the top left picture over here uh indicates a movement called hacktivism now this is a very popular picture of a group called anonymous right okay praveen correct me if i'm wrong but i don't think so these this is a criminal syndicate group right uh they don't advocate something which is okay like it's not about correcting it's you know like well where where it's on this topic like i'm also not a lawyer man or a country judge we were trying to i'm not i'm not actually well well well well words on this topic so okay but looking at it through the lens of the activism and the examples of such so one is so the examples here are like the anonymous group and to the right of it is a trash tag movement which also initiated online which tells us that the places where such any kind of activism that can place take place in today's time are also digital so trash tag also initiate initiated online and people you know there there were people who were tagged on certain activities related to cleaning areas and then they would do like like and certain examples that we can also look at are like the ice bucket challenge and stuff like that but then trash tag and things like things like these have had those social impact as well yeah so so also saying it from an angle that trash tag sort of you know trash tags and other hashtags let's say so the activism which is you know certain activities which follow a certain philosophy so i think that that itself become becomes a act of activism you know curating these activities so what trash tag was that it was essentially a movement that was driven around cleaning the planet by the citizens themselves and all the activities were can be curated under these hashtag right another trash tag yeah so if we move on to the next one so this is a little recent thing that we picked up so what we understood is that on the humanist scales there there is a lot of segregation happening today like we are we are divided and very interesting divisions can be seen you know in various countries and various geographical locations and cultural locations so that became sort of a current mood words activism as well and we can see this this slide was particularly targeted towards raise the previous one and this one this one is a more there's a lot of things happening here also so i think we can move on these are just examples we can go to them again and let's go to the activity straight away and the first activity you guys can come to the mirror board we'll also join you there do we have a link of the mirror board in the chat i'll just place it now there's a link to the mirror board you can just go there and a little initiation to mirror also i'll just take you guys a little bit you know with the tools and everything because it's it's not such a difficult software most of us who are here have used it already all right so ravine can i share my screen now okay so on the right if you see there are there's a tool panel so there are arrows there's a select tool and so i would just recommend you just you know try out these tools one by one so you will just see what each one does and that is enough familiarity with the software i think and you can so the activity i think probably can you take us through the activity once like the chits and everything that you okay so what we'll be doing guys is that the first activity is about the activism we we have connected within our personal life and even have witnessed in public lives so as you can see on the top i have placed some sticky notes here right so what i would like you guys to do in like next five to ten minutes is that what we'll do is we'll if we can identify any sort of you know issue or a subject which we feel passionate about or which we feel concerned about or which we feel that has to be voiced in the in the space so the left side the pink side which you could see is for the personal issues so things like mental health or even so like parental abuse you could say or even examination pressures so those if you feel a topic which you can connect with on that level then you could put it on the personal level on the left side and you could see on the center there is a intensity bar so on the top it's low intensity on the high high intensity so if you feel very highly intense about it you know like there is a sort of a high emotional connection to it you could put it near the bottom or if it's it's like you feel connected to it but not to that much extent you could put it at the top and similarly on the right side you have a social space where there are there's a space for topics which you feel connected through in social lives so okay so it's like okay if i i want to put something like that okay i feel connected to climate change so you just pick up a sticky note from the top and you can just place it here so what we'll do is in next five to ten minutes i think we could just put put our personal stories or personal things which we connect to here so if you just have to drag any of the post-its and you could place it as per the intensity that how do you feel connected to it so i'll also go along with you guys this activism in personal life and in public space right yeah that's related to space as in i practice that activism publicly or privately uh yeah like if you practice that privately then you could put it in the personal sense and if you if you have witnessed it because see like when you when you witness things in happening in in the social space like outside our houses i'm considering or we are considering it as a social space since a lot it's it's a group of individuals who are coming together in that space and privately something even like doing uh if you if you think that having uh you know meditation or having well being is a sort of a activism which you feel connected to that is very central to your you know your life then you could put it in the private and there could be another way where you are a sort of a well-being guru or a yoga instructor and you would like to spread that type of activism in the public so you could put it in that social sphere so it's about how you connect to this but this sense of activism do you want to put it as a personal thing or do you want to keep it as a first uh public uh sphere activity which you could which you want people to come and witness and you know take away with them does that answer as a question i think she got disconnected she's not in the meeting anymore yeah yeah so traveen in the current activity there is no obligation to uh like take on the making aspect of craft night is just to understand causes shall we say yeah yes about causes samira is she back i would like to know add one more thing to that but yeah it's okay okay and i'll just make your copies at the top so that uh if we are if we need more post-its or there's another way you guys can just click all or just do control c control you will get a copy of the post it place some blank ones also what is being an activism which is also personal and it has a birth you can place something in the middle so uh no like i mean as soon as it becomes a you could place it but for me it's uh from the angle where i'm seeing it it's like it's like like as soon as you share it it becomes a social thing right that's why i didn't write public i wrote social right i understood okay samira is back i think samira in my order yeah so what uh praveen was also saying i i would just like to add to that and he just cleared it up abhi very easily until the time the activism is personal and it is not moving out of your sphere it can stay in the pink part in the left part the moment it becomes so i asked him a question what if there is an activism which means you know between that it is also a personal sort of a thing and is also a social also socially expressing it so he said be social only because in that way the the activism or the cause you know becomes a social activity for you yeah i think we have a lot of yeah we're also timing these activities guys please come back to these boards and add so we just for now we just move ahead so you guys can keep adding later on also and you can keep just an eye on the screen on the zoom screen yeah okay so i'll just keep listening to it yeah so moving ahead so we were looking at a lot of issues and so so this was a w e f world economic forum risk report so we were actually looking at risks that the world is facing so risks like the natural risk as well as there are risks which are related to economy related to internet security and so we can and there are other man made spills also man made risks also which are like oil spills radioactive contamination and other things so we can move ahead this was just a i'll just add one thing with this okay so when we are saying issues getting severe we our motive here was to you know like understand that how even the present crisis or present risks we are having is going to become more severe or maybe less severe with time it depends on how we are looking at the future so this is another way for us to do the speculation part or initiate into the speculation leg of the activity which we'll be doing soon so moving on from that so i think let's go to the next one also i think there are other pitches which are not this we are coming to places and spaces okay so this was also an issue of migration you know the migrant laborer that just we just also during the lockdown and the effect in effect the entire movement and the displacement that happened so we understood displacement as a you know as a larger problem which we can look at the lens of refugee crisis also and people are getting displaced on levels which are international as well as within the domestic bounds of a country and moving on Praveen i think the places and spaces of activism so this was very interesting that we actually asked this question that if you want to express activism where do you even go how do you even do it so like for me it it had always been like i'm a person born into an internet generation so for me internet is a space which is a it is safer you know than physical spaces it takes less effort so internet internet and the virtual spaces are like definitely one of the very interesting turning points for activism and we can see we just put a twitter thing there and for us it was also about personal spaces of activism it was about activism which was called all of very you know individual scale like art experiences or your own spaces for that matter and then we of course have a very out loud and you know demonstrative way of saying that this is something that we care about this is something that we want to happen so that is a way that we are all very familiar with you know we have seen protests we have seen dharanas we have seen boycott gigs happening so and i will just add this few more like we call it triggers in our activities in a format that like as you see like there is a whole space of protests like official protest sites which we have in india which we you have to get a permission permit for so on the on this image when you see this is a part of jantha mantha so more you when you go around that space you'll see a lot of protests happening at that space and then the on the right side you could see the farmer protest recently which has been happening in panjab and dharana states where people have you know used the railway tracks as a space for protest so like so you know as you can see like people are using monuments as official spaces and even like roads and highways as a space for protest so that is the point that i just wanted to add and also kind of you know clogs the you know the supply chain of that region so it is also kind of an inconvenience that they're trying to cause yeah it is a lot of things that you know how the spaces and the places of protests are chosen and are you know demarcated so let's move ahead so particularly for craft activism we are looking at various expressions in which you know craft has been aiding activism of various kinds and we look at affirmations putting on you know existing public furniture or you know trees you put affirmations there you put your thoughts out on the public you know landscape so that kind of exaggerates the thought amplifies the thought and we have had i think these are the similar concept dolls you know that these are the actually sonamika dolls which minhashu was talking about in the at the start yeah and as Anushka says so bank sees work is also a form of expression which is there and on the bottom right you would see the yarn bombing example on the time which we discussed earlier right and i'll just specifically talk about these two examples of the 3d printed gun and the bio activism which which is shared to me by samira so in in so recently the case for having ghost guns was won by the guy who who sort of published the quote for 3d printing this gun so in our context we are also considering craft like this 3d printing as a craft which got which was expressed even through this not so preferable format in the future in the you know for the future actually and yeah this is another expression where the person wanted to assert his right of freedom through this you know having a free code which you could publish online and on the first time that this isn't is a very interesting project where with what they were doing was since there was a lack of uh fruit bearing trees in the city so three of these artists they started during this project they started grafting these fruit bearing plants all around the city and around this existing art not showcase show show plants so these were few of the expressions you were looking at when we were doing we're thinking that okay how crafts can help in expressing this form of activism in our in our spaces in our cities in our personal lives so from that i'll okay just a second yeah so i'll just like to move to the second activity we could all move to the second activity from this or do you want to add anything oh i think yeah we can just go to the mirror board again so yeah it's the same mirror board which you guys had linked just now okay i think yeah this one so i'll just explain in quickly the activity on the right side so that that's activity too so we'll take around 10 to 15 minutes to fill this i'll just focus on one of the what we what we call is a chart okay so what we like you to do is like you know i've placed the one two three four in the order you could fill this format and what we'll prefer for you is you could choose one of the other boards okay i'll be working on this one so what we'll do is the first thing i would what we should be doing on the board is to first write a issue so let's say that oh yeah and you could just double click on the particular element and it will become editable for you so if i write that okay like the issue which i am looking at is something which is deforestation of green forests uh deli i would say let's say because right now i'm in deli okay so we could think of the issue which we are trying to portray and figure that okay like if deforestation of green forests is the issue in deli so it becomes become when it becomes severe it could go on to something like that okay 90 percent of forest cover gets depleted uh in 10 year times or something like that okay and then the second thing i would like you to do is like choose a craft so i'm i'm a digital person so let's say that i i choose a craft of i'll choose a very simple one which i think a lot of people can connect with right now is let's say i'll choose a craft of 3d printing that how do you quote and do things and in my case i'll say the activist is a anonymous group member who is sort of residing in the city so and after that when you have considered figured the activist then i will like you to put a place where you think you know like as we see the spaces of protest where do you think these spaces of protest can be in my expression okay i'll just choose something like i'll just say public gardens of the city so i'm choosing this as a space and at the end at the end i would like you know like consider this scenario where you have a issue which is getting severe over time like 90% of the forest covering delhi has been wiped out and i have like as a anonymous group member he has a 3d print printer at his uh at his ease and so what he does i this is the expression which i am imagining or i'm referring in the future for to happen is that this activist uh okay i'll just write it with time you guys can start a new thing and i'm thinking in the direction that okay maybe this guy uh or the group member who is from anonymous he goes to the public gardens in the night and he starts 3d printing uh uh plastic trees in the in the spaces i know it's not the actual part uh or maybe in the future what happens we we develop some organic materials for 3d printing and he starts printing these organic matter made of algae algae solutions so he he prints sort of these trees 3d trees and puts it in these gardens and over time you know the moss on algae moss blooms over these plastics because these are bio plastics so okay so these are this is a way which i am expressing it so you guys can also like take up one one of the one of those sheets and start filling it throw yeah on the board okay okay so it'll take around like 10 minutes i think so we could you can also fill more than one boards if you think that yeah totally since we are less people we would not shy away from more ideas so please give us more ideas and and also kind of guys i would like to reiterate here a little bit that what we do with these informations and ideas that you give us is that these becomes like these become sort of signals for us you know that what are where are you heading in your aspirations what kind of world are you seeing what kind of world you want to you know kind of imagine sort of imagine so what these will become signals and we'll end up using these in our imaginations as well you know so this we'll try to categorize the ones that go together and what are the sort of the signals that we're getting what kind of world can we build from let's say five cards which are you know kind of similar so we will definitely want to you know credit you guys in the final publishing of the thing so just feel free to share your ideas and you know so we'll try to make something good of it is that is is what i'm trying to say that part of the project is also to kind of take these signals and take it to a very believable or a presentable vision of the future yeah i just wanted to specify what we do with this information and if you are facing any issue know then just like open your mic and let us know we'll help you okay it's so quiet so and also guys if you feel that image can also help you figure talk about the narrative you could use this okay akshita yeah the craft need not be related but if you feel that for the cause you need a particular craft you can like there are no criteria for that okay and for the image thing on the left side of the toolbar there is at the bottom that three dots so when you click it there is a google image search so what you could do is if you prefer to put some image in the space then you could just do a google search and okay if anybody would like to share their vision also they could do that like if you want you so okay i'll just share if you guys can read it yeah i just i just thought that what hacker can do so i just wrote that probably there's a person who knows a little bit of code in ui and he knows how to get into people's social media accounts very dark guys i'm so sorry but then yeah since such a person can be of and the issue i chose was muslim bashing because very recently also i've had a very bad experience in a group where certain kind of bashings were happening due to last names and so it's kind of close to my head right now the issue so and then i chose code in ui because what i understood about muslim bashing and you know bashing of any sort of community is that you use certain slangs against you know very some words have been you know made as a representation of the entire community for example the n word in the case of blacks so we have specific words for indian muslims also which conservatives quite regularly throw around so what i thought is that probably there is a person who can hack and through code he can attack certain conservatives where every time they type in a word which is supposed to be an attack on muslims it changes it to names of candies so very interesting what sort of things can come out of that other people can also share thank you anushka yeah i also thought it's a pretty funny idea yeah okay i'm because asking whether hacktivism is a craftivism so okay and my take on that is that you know even if you have to hack something you need to know that craft beforehand so hacking something is like a tinkering with the original original you know shape or original form of it so if you are hacking the code then you have to know coding in this sense like you have to know the craft of coding and if you are hacking let's say because there are examples of in india which we call jugard is like hacking on actual objects and actual machines right where we have a scooter engine placed on a rickshaw right and so the so we i'm considering that also as a part of craftivism because that's a craft in in my definition that's a very interesting point okay if everyone is done we could you guys want we can keep on doing this because i'm liking the ideas which are coming out yeah can we can we talk about the card is a little bit guys or not like i would love to hear from you guys what you what there is a parallel board going on on both the sides hi i don't think i have a proper craft craft so the issue that i saw increasingly and a lot of news articles started to come up recently how states are prioritizing certain laws for over 19 and then they are not necessarily like thinking of women issues and they don't pay investment for that isn't important for instance in karnataka they cut the funding for the free supply of sanitary napkins to young girls in schools and instead they said we need this money for future covid-19 expenses so and that the leader was made of course so i was just like thinking about like how we have such few leaders who are women and also like the best covid-19 response all over the world has been done by women suggesting the art and fun instance so yeah so like my craft was would be letters like handwritten letters and like the expression and of course like they have to be signed by force and the expression is basically you reach out to girls from the goodwill and urban communities both you know these projects are usually just for i don't know like you should include people from the girls from both parts of india and they should write letters and do the future women leaders and what all how they want them to make the world a better place for themselves and then these letters are sort of circulated to women like older women who are just about to graduate from college i mean they could be several variations of this but this is where i thought it would be a good idea to start interesting i think i went with letters which are slower way of you know a more kind of spend time with a letter and to write now so that's what i really like i like that how she like she is doing i think if i look at in the future then also it's it's like you know in a fast phased mediums we still want to put handwritten letters so that emphasizes the point okay it's almost like but also i have this this this contention that everybody has this linear idea about future that in the future everything will be high tech it's not necessarily like that for instance if you take paper you know or you could take like air traffic controllers like people were really manual we have like all these advanced computers and still they're using their city notes for the flight strips you know but there was a lot of human factors to that as well that that just the technology cannot provide the affordances for so like yeah i mean yeah i just want to bring that point of attention thank you no even that i am very thankful when you pointed that out because i remember that when we were doing craft apprenticeship and during that period there was this same issue which you were facing where we were thinking that why in future everything should be advanced and that's why we came up with futures where you know things are not growing as a tech tech tech based society but instead we are resending or we are stagnated in the current technological level not not in the sense that we are not doing anything but yeah like so thank you for this point actually anybody else would like to share akshita or i can see akshita on the board that's why or we could get to the presentation and then we could discuss these things bro yeah okay so as we are finishing the activity right okay of course we just wanted to reiterate this part that as drug said that you know when what we'll be doing after these things are after we get this idea so there is another thing that we have you could either email us if you want to you know if any of these conversations triggered something much different or much more closer to you and you want to put it in in in any form of visuals or narrative so you could write to us and we will try to make it part of the not try we'll make it part of the project and also there i think in the chat we have the discord and the presentation link so later on you guys can check the presentation or even share with your community about this thing and the discord channel is there where you could join and you could even start a conversation it's not like just for which we we have to start if you are interested in particular different formats of speculation which can happen in india or even in world it's a pattern so you could join us there and then we'll thank you rishwin from hasgi team who's been helping us put together this session and also a jai bhar team ambika and nanditi who are always supportive of us doing these sessions and help us you know bring it together yeah and finally thanks for participating guys you guys can reach us at instagram or mail us or we have a website also so you could also go there and we'll be putting documentation of each project one by one slowly as we move forward so the floor is open right now so we could discuss any ideas if you guys would like to discuss among us sorry i was just reading the chat all right so guys i would also like to iterate a little bit on the project now just just for like a minute that the deliverables of the project what the kind of project that we are doing more than the expressions that we will come up with so this contribution that we get from you guys the activities that we the cards that we make and the inputs that you guys give on that and also the the whole recording of the session this also kind of becomes a part of the deliverable itself because this is a so so for this particular project like when we were starting conversations with the pro helvetia team who supported us so this project is supposed supported by the swiss council of arts and the prime how do you say constrained for the fund was that the modality of the project is supposed to be something that is suited for the post pandemic era so for us this interaction itself is a part of the project so this is a documentation that will also like there will be no filtering in the how do you say ideas that we get so the entire length and the breadth of the discussion will be a submission for the project in itself so yeah so cool guys that's it if anything you guys want to share a cash thank you for your inputs as well as you know coming to the meetings please just you know join us for the next one as well we'll try to bring interesting topics to the table and i think we're going to do three more legs of this entire project in which we'll try to move two different triggers that affect crafts and yeah cool i think we can go on to close the discussion now and if you guys want to continue with the activity you can continue on the cards if you want to read it out you can the floor is open now but then i see the in that people want to do it in their own time so that's okay we'll keep the board open for another week and then we'll try to you know document whatever has happened from there and we'll kind of close the documentation one week from now probably next Sunday so you guys have enough time you can if you want to if you have any idea through the week you can just come back to the board and put it there i know it's a little bit of effort but it'll really help the project and as well as you know you will feel good putting it out there i think yeah cool guys thank you everyone we can go we can stop the live now i think yeah