Panch is currently undergoing heavy reconceptualization. Our team has gone back to the drawing board after our 6 month experience trying to find answers to a question: How can low-income communities take ownership in the design and fabrication of their own solutions to their challenges? Findings were mixed, as we learned much more about the reality of urban low-income technologies in India, but found that the current reality lacked platforms both appropriate and willing for such a philosophy to be built upon. We decided to ask Question B: What if we made our own platform?
This picture taken of Aditya during a team discussion in Delhi captures our current stage: reconceptualizing comfortably. But painfully aware that we are disconnected from the low-income communities we are talking about. In this picture, I think we were talking about theoretical histories of power.
Now I have to leave India since my visa has run out. The future of panch and what form it will take is yet to be seen. But my ticket is roundtrip.
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