CEPT Students come up with Soft and design led interventions that gives new parlance to Varanasi

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CEPT Campus Students have come up with a slew of "soft and Design led interventions" and many projects along with the work have been displayed on the campus and the outcome of this institute's annual winter school that saw 900 CEPT Students including 50 international students from different foreign universities choose 44 elective courses.

City of Varanasi

India and Japan inked a pact to develop Varanasi as a smart city last year. The students visited Varanasi came up with several 'Design led interventions' as a part of their course called "Understanding the scope of design interventions in public places,streets and Ghats in Varanasi at the winter school held at CEPT.CEPT students proposed several solutions regarding  a street signage system that absorbs noise and low cost woven bamboo strips made of two concentric cylinders which captures all the articles flowing in to the river and umbrella installations for reducing pollution in Ganga and creation of more community spaces,contemporary street art to connect old and new city areas,Operations of battery in rickshaws similar to that of European cities,Movable furniture for public and smart toilets and cleanliness in Varanasi.

CEPT students also examined the unique characteristics of Varanasi city  and said “We found that design led soft interventions are cheaper, flexible and easily adoptable by people and those which are ‘people led’ will work best for the city. These interventions cost less than 5 % of the budget currently allocated to Varanasi in the last budget. Bamboo umbrellas can be installed across the Ghats and signanges that can aid in urban noise management by absorbing the noise and the constant honking at Girjaghar Chauraja was suggested by students. For Luxa Road -one of the busiest streets in the city, we felt paved roads can be developed. These are measures that would be easily acceptable by the people as the materials can be sources locally,” said Sanskruti Panchal, faculty coordinator of the course.

Manuel Marquez De Las Heras also stressed on how street art that is traditionally found in Varanasi, can take the form of social expression simply by being contemporary. It is also slated to get an ambitious Rs 18,349-crore makeover from the government in a bid to boost the dilapidated infrastructure of the holy city that has fallen into disrepair.

Tag : CEPT, Design Led Interventions, Soft, Varanasi