As part of our course project Design for Sustainability, our team visited a village called Bardua/Batadrava in Assam, India. Our three day stay in Bardua provided us with immense insights of the households, agriculture, resources and natives. It was a great study tour to witness the real rural India.

 

Study included: Contextual study, Case studies for sustainability, Field trip and ethnography, Getting inspired, Conceptualization of the solution, Implementation model, Feasibility.

 

Bardua has a high iron content in its water resources and hence, becomes a reason for varied problems in children as well as adults. Our focus area was to design sustainable solutions to cater high-iron content water using the resources already available in their surroundings. Without the need or introduction of new materials, without the need for extensive tutorials and without the concern for gathering or disposing valuable resources in the environment, we set to explore sustainable water resources in Bardua.