Design Helps

Design Helps is an exhibition being held in New Delhi on October 13-17 at the India Habitat Center’s Open Palm Court in the Indian capital. Team Finland ordered the exhibition to Delhi and Tikau Share curated it. The exhibition is based on the highly successful and innovative Design Helps Living Room event that featured on the Helsinki World Design Capital 2012 program in Finland, one of the world’s top design countries, presenting 8 examples of innovative design and solution models for sustainable employment
and infrastructure development. The Living Room was conceived by the Finnish Tikau Share NGO that operates in India with a special focus on the sustainable development of a scheduled caste community in Odisha. Tikau Share will again curate the 2013 Design Helps show. The exhibition aims to take the principle of Design for Sustainable Development several steps further by involving a wide range of participants. The exhibition environment will make use of materials reflecting sustainability and will present an inspiring, engaging and absorbing display of test cases. Architecture, infrastructure and sustainable employment will be among the case themes. Design Help’s development cooperation combines the principles of sustainable development with support for small businesses. Tikau Share’s ideology is based on Design Helps-thinking, whereby design and its innovative solutions are seen as a tool to help provide global well-being. The exhibition will present various cases answering the question, How Can Design Help?