LABS

All our research projects

Anthillhacks

AntHill is a metaphor for the world of structure and complexity that exists just beneath the surface of everything around us. And Ants are our inspiration which embodies co-operation, coordination and communication as core principles of building communities.

The idea of Anthillhacks is to encourage people to meet at a...

Crafts and Culture

Craft Centre is located in Devarayanadurga. It started out as a means to enable locals to use river weed to make useful products.

Media Makerspaces

“Universe is made of stories, not atoms” - Muriel Rukeyser, poet and feminist

Software Commons

Supporting open-source software development, community oriented conferences and meetings such as PyCon (Python programing language), barcampbangalore.com and AntHillHacks. ( janastu.org/home/index.html#/12a )


PROJECTS

13 Ways

Alipi

“aLipi” means without-alphabet or text/print-impaired (non-literates/low-literates).

lipi means alphabet, letter, writing or script in Sanskrit. The “a” sound as a prefix is mostly used as negation in Sanskrit and many Indian languages. We also use the phrase “aLipi - God’s own content” to present re-narration as a suitable method to...

Digital Hampi

Follow the Sheep

Find a good shepherd. Follow the black Sheep.

Follow the Sheep project involves following shepherds and their (mostly black) sheep, in the Deccan areas of Karnataka and Andra Pradesh. Shepherds are non-literate in general. And the nomadic shepherds travel about 400 kms over a range of 6 to 8 months...

Pantoto

Papad

An application designed to listen and tag audio files by a CR station community. These tags (the meta information) can then be used to search, sort and share a large collection of audio files – eg., when community calls a CR station and leaves messages in large numbers, or when...

Re-Story

SWeeT Web


POSTS

Under Trial

Under Trial - The Thigalas of Halekote

By Nidhi Suresh

HaleKote is a small hamlet village of Devarayanadurga, located 20kms off Tumkur, Karnataka. The 60 households of HaleKote are owned by three large families who live there. The residents speak Kannada with interlaced with a tinge of Tamil. HaleKote...