Ayaan is a design and craft enthusiast from Kolkata working at the intersection of policymaking, craft epistemology, and design research. With a textile design background from NIFT Delhi and an MA in Design for Change Ayaan’s practice experiments with lesser-known juxtapositions of design and policymaking, holding the potential to create discursive, meaningful shifts within our dynamic world.
About the Artwork
Design for Policy: Weaving the social fabric of Scotland
Installation: 2024
My project reimagines craft-related policymaking by using design-led, participatory methods to gather alternative forms of evidence. I explore this topic through action research, mobilising the Weavers of Scotland to present their aspirations towards the transition into a circular economy, through visual processes of sensemaking. Through this cultural probe policy kit, I explored how visual, vocational tools can help surface underlying opportunities and barriers, and could be adapted across sectors to inform more inclusive policy development towards a collective future.