Everything you need to kickstart design research.
Research is the most crucial step in innovation, as it provides an understanding about users’ behaviour and actionable insights anchored in their behaviour, needs and dreams for the future.
Unlike conventional research methodologies, design research amalgamate and curate methods and techniques from the toolboxes of ethnography, anthropology etc. to discover not just insights, but a whole new perspective and fresh ideas which you would never dare to think!

open-source archive of Innovation Methods
LIVING HISTORY
Crowd-sourced archive of coronavirus pandemic in India.
Once in a lifetime opportunity to record your experiences during this historic time.
Why you should contribute?
Your work will serve as a reservoir of information and knowledge that can be accessed by all and can be used in the future to understand India during the coronavirus pandemic.
Living History will help diverse stakeholders to rebuild a better world for the generations to come.
Here is how you can contribute
This momentous task can be achieved only by the participation of the people. People from all walks of life are experiencing the pandemic. Therefore, it is the people who can together create ‘living history’. It is through your experiences, combined with research and fact findings that we will be able to create an ideal imagined future.
1. pick a theme
Document the times that we live in based on any one of the themes.
theme A
Capturing Change
how things existed in the recent past and how have they changed in the last few weeks
theme B
Imagining the Future
how will things look like in the future or what is the ideal future
2. pick a category
The pandemic and lockdowns have impacted many aspects of our personal lives. Select any of the 5 key categories.

Spaces & Products

Nature & Climate

Social behaviour & Wellbeing

People & Governance
