part of the shoe has probably gone
through my name hundreds of kilometres
of travel thousands of degrees
temperature in a furnace then few more
kilometers of transport probably then
gone through turning boring crimping
welding painting polishing and whatnot
then probably assembled into a product
now who wants to be rejected after going
through so much
right but these good things were these
poor things were rejected and labeled as
waste here this is not a story with this
product only this is a story with every
single thing you touch you observe or
you relate to as a product in your life
so what happens if I take these
materials and I connect them to the
materials who have similar journey or
similar story now this pair of shoe has
been made with traditional re technique
hand embroidered onto a fabric which
comes from industrial gloves waste to
form this amazing product so here is a
little journey of how it’s been done
so you saw a few and the radix in there
which probably has similar journey in
similar stories so you saw a copper
chair also there I call it a copper sure
because pretends to be one in real these
are not copper wires these are aluminum
wires which goes into motor whining
whenever there is a motor made or
manufactured there is a whining of a lot
of wires goes in these are the rejects
from that lot so I’m talking about every
waste which comes from industries and
their static in numbers they are in
selected Lots they are not random
materials which you have to put and fix
together to form an object right they’re
as good as any other virgin material
this particular wire comes from motor
whining waste why this acts like copper
wire and why I’ll call it a copper shell
because this has a poly coating which
has an insulation property on top of
aluminium foil now when this material
goes into recycling or probably down
cycling you don’t get much out of it
it’s a very resource-intensive process
and when Surrey tours intensive process
there’s not much meaning you function
that because if you practice that
process you will invest more and get
very little output so hence I call it a
carpet chair because it serves far more
bigger purpose than being converted into
or try to get back aluminium bias out of
it there were few other products which
you saw in the film these also have
similar stories this Normans are purely
made out of industrial hand gloves waste
these materials especially I’m going to
show you the next two slides are the
materials which have no other use even
in the scrap market they get simply
burnt they have no resale value even for
this crap vendors so nobody buys them
they just get burnt probably somebody
this is a necklace
purely made out of I’m also wearing one
this is purely made out of motor waste
of ceiling fan and power loom industry
you can see on the other side there’s a
garment which has been made purely from
power loom industry waste and even the
necklace threats comes from power loom
industries so here is a little story on
why I am doing all this what inspires me
my grandparents were farmers but my
father was not but I was fortunate
enough to live and spend enough time in
my village with my grandparents that I
got a huge knowledge base of indigenous
living indigenous living and natural
materials and so on now this was a
problem as well as was working to my
benefit soon I realized that I am
developing a belief system around all
this knowledge when I’m developing this
belief system and clashing constantly
with the conventional belief system of
other people around me meet my school
beat my job my college my university
everybody has a set pattern to function
whereas I’m trying to constantly push
those boundaries to fit into everything
with my principles my master’s was run
in a very very specific way so I will
try to convert things and envision my
projects with my theories and now I will
constantly be in told why are you trying
to compress these ugly blobby mushy
things all the time hence I was not a
favorite student of most of my
professors sewing to my grandparents in
the knowledge base I got from them here
is a project called traditional futures
traditional futures was a project I did
knowing how much we generate as waste
from one single crop which is rice we’re
the second largest producer of rice and
we generate approximately 70 thousand
metric tons of rice husk waste in the
process of
pharming every year pretty much that’s
in a proxy add real number could be much
higher
so this rice husk is used quickly in my
research I found out to generate
electricity in Bihar
so I collaborated with them I found out
oh so they also have a by-product when
they have a by-product it’s called rice
husk ash because they’re generating
electricity and what comes next out of
it is rice husk ash rice husk ash has
amazing properties I am wondering why
this material is a waste or being
considered as a threat to the
environment to us if we work around it
well this is not a new material
certainly right we have been eating rice
from generations we have been eating
other similar crops from God knows how
many years so why this is a problem now
and what used to happen earlier what
people used to do with these materials
so instead of innovating I thought why
not to dig into the older history of
what material used to perform or use
perform the rituals in everyday life I
found out looking back traditionally
rice husk ash and even today few grants
do that it’s an amazing toothpaste or a
toothpaste filler it has amazing
antibacterial properties and insulation
properties and so on so instead of
innovating anything I thought the need
is to revive and celebrate what used to
happen around this material here is what
I did I repackaged the uses which I
could discover so I made the product as
well as the kit to use that product from
the same material which was rice husk
ash simply to answer the quantities I
was having in my research so there is a
skin cleanser and a skin cleanser kit
made out of rice husk ash those ink and
incense an incense burner made out of
rice husk ash
so I developed a product range just to
tell you from this particular product
this particular material and that’s how
I do my work moving on to the next
material so I only found this superstar
I call it my superstar because I only
found him by accident I found this
material after pestering a particular
facility where this comes from probably
like seven eight nine times I am I have
I got hold of this material and I’m
wondering why it is not performing the
way it should perform if the information
comes along with this material is
correct I’m failing constantly working
for quite a bit I realized I need to dig
more I started working on this material
again visiting the facility one day
someone showing me around the facility
accidentally mentioned oh so you know
this synthetic graphite yes this
material is called synthetic graphite so
far I have been told this is called a
graphite so well I’m not an engineer and
I’m not a scientist so I would have
saved a lot of time otherwise right so
this material comes from automotive
industry as a waste and it’s called
synthetic graphite and this synthetic
graphite otherwise goes to landfill I
don’t know why but I tried working
around this material and I only
harnessed one property which any layman
could relate to graphite has
conductivity so I harnessed that
property I made a surface in a tile
format with this material and these
Styles have conductivity so it’s the
conductive surface and no high-tech
technology has been used to made them I
have only made them by collaborating
with age-old traditional knowledge of a
quarter sohow quarters function I have
collaborated with them figure out a way
and converted this particular material
which is a hassle for most industries
into this product
I would like to close this thing with
the note that in today’s word we can
innovate with two ways one which we have
been using all from a long time to
innovate new products right you want to
really make new types of panels chairs
so on different products but what is the
need of the day is you can create the
similar product is existing products
with alternate materials and that’s what we need today thank you