Summary
I have Anjali Menon with us on Audiogyan. She is a co-founder of Gudgudee. Anjali with Aditi Agarwal (who works from BLR) started Gudgudee in 2014. It’s a design studio that specialises in creating innovative play spaces for children of all abilities. They aspire to transform public spaces and improve the quality of life for children and society at large. We will try and document a broad landscape of playing areas for children in India and how Gudgudee is trying not to make a dent, but smoothen the slides and swings so kids can play.
Questions asked in this episode
Can you start by telling us like a brief background about Gudgudee? How did it start and what's the story behind it?
How do you approach a particular given problem statement or how do you come up with different use cases? And then also how do you measure like the final impact versus what the output is and what the impact was? And how are you measuring it as well and what's the process overall, like with any particular example?
What do you mean by inclusive in the context of playground design?
How do you deal with non-applicability of 80-20 principle (design for 80% and chuck the 20%) in your field?
Do you encounter conflict between your personal interest and the brief that you receive about deliverables?
What is the biggest hurdle in terms of evangelizing the importance of well-designed play spaces?
What kind of materials you're using and what is being generally used in the industry, at least in the Indian ecosystem? Any insights on that?
So what is the future of Gudgudee and what, according to you, is the crying need of the hour with respect to playing spaces, areas, and overall development of children in the play aspect of things?
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People mentioned
Mr. Poonamallee
Mr. Praful Shah
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