Welcome

Welcome to Syntropy, a design collaboration open elective workshop held at the National Institute of Design at Ahmedabad, India.

The blog charts an ongoing dialogue exploring opportunities for design in craft, studio & technology practices that support sustainable living / enabling scenarios within small enterprise communities.

Design as Syntropy* is a concept that describes seeking fruitful relationships in design. This project explores design strategies to connecting opportunities found in the artisan and small enterprise community to develop design opportunities and solutions based on principles of industrial ecology. *Syntropy is an amalgam of the two nouns synergy, and tropism. Synergy refers to the interaction of two or more agents to produce a combined effect greater than the sum of each individual effect, whilst Tropism in refers to the way an organism moves in a particular direction in response to an external stimulus.