“What happens when a thousand oil cans decide to fly?
Jugaad explored this idea through a celebratory and constantly evolving process of re-purposing and redefining the cooking oil can, a ubiquitous feature of Indian life. The project borrows its namefrom a hindi term which refers to attaining any objective with the available resources at hand. Bycombining this attitude with an open-source, inclusive process, the project took recycling and reuse beyond a simple utilitarian measure into an exciting adventure of defiance and collective will. This journey is the result of a unique engagement with the residents of Rajokri, an urban village on the outskirts of New Delhi in India. Over a period of three months, Sanjeev Shankar used the discarded oil can as a vehicle to explore ideas of sustainability, recycling and re-purposing with 90 other residents from the village. Using grass root ingenuity, Jugaad reincarnated 945 such cans into an incredible free-standing shade canopy spread over 70 square metres. This story celebrates the practice of jugaad and the collective spirit of India and its people.”
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