The Routledge Handbook of Craft and Sustainability in India
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Traditional crafts have been an essential part of Indian history, culture and life. This handbook looks at craft as both a cultural artefact that reflects people's worldviews, indigenous practices and traditions, as well as a source of income generation and development that is inclusive.

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Traditional crafts have been an essential part of Indian history, culture and life. This handbook looks at craft as both a cultural artefact that reflects people's worldviews, indigenous practices and traditions, as well as a source of income generation and development that is inclusive.
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Rebecca Reubens is a sustainability designer, educator and independent academic who spent the first decade of her career working with international development-sector institutions centred on sustainable livelihoods for bamboo-working communities in Asia and Africa. Following this, she completed her PhD at Delft University of Technology on the links between craft, sustainability, and design. She currently practices in the same space, through her sustainability design studio Rhizome in Ahmedabad. She remains connected to academics through her teaching and writing. She is the author of a number of publications including, Bamboo: From Green Design to Sustainable Design and Holistic Sustainability through Craft-Design Collaboration. She is an ambassador for the World Bamboo Organization. Tanishka Kachru is a design historian and educator at the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad, India. Her research interests focus on the intersections of design histories from postcolonial perspectives, national identity, exhibition histories, and design for development. She was co-convenern of the Design History Society 2013 Annual Conference, the first to take place in a non-Western geography. Her practice includes curation and cultural communicationn produced from collections, archives and living heritage. She has contributed to several publications including, Nakashima at NID, The Routledge Companion to Design Studies, and the forthcoming Women Graphic Designers: Rebalancing the Canon.