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Jogi Panghaal
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 Jogi Panghaal graduated in Product Design from the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad, India in 1977. He co-founded Lifetools in New Delhi to provide product design and communication design services to communities, both rural and urban that needed design help. Projects done include product design work with rural artisans and disabled children and communication design work with rural and urban communities, particularly women in the areas of health and HIV/AIDS. Mr. Panghaal has been a visiting teacher at NID, at Les Ateliers Paris and at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. He has research interests in the area of cultural identity and design and has conducted educational programmes around this theme. In a parallel project he has been involved in the study of food and identity issues. In fact both these projects have informed each other over time. Present intereommunities and resource institutions to establish mutually useful relationships with each other through the help of information technologies.
Experience in Specific Asian Countries/territories :
A : Working with marginalised groups of people in India and also Bangladesh. Work has included design of special aids (mobility, educational, play, income generation) for disabled groups across several areas of disability.
B: Working with women in Rural areas on issues of literacies ( designing primers), health and income generation etc.
C: Working with artisans to use their traditional skills to find new markets for their old/new products.
D: representing a very rich mix of experiences in methodologies, approaches, perspectives and strategies that have learnt from the traditional sector and what was taught in modern educational sector. |
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