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Exploring the walking card in the Hak.io kit.

While exploring the walking card, I am documenting how I feel walking through different parts of delhi. Beginning with my favourite places to go and take a stroll, I will attempt to walk through difficult- non- walkable parts of delhi.

Through this project I hope to inquire things that can make us more alive.

Why Walk?

Insights from the very first day:

I don’t think i need to talk… just simply walk with me.

I can hear my footsteps on the road when no car is nearby and its silent. Imagine what all you’d be able to hear if no cars would be there and human beings just chose to be and nothing more than that.

I could hear the leaves rustle very slightly.

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Everytime I walk in a green area, I feel happier. but agitation increases every single time I walk in a road filled with traffic, there is a visual difference in my face and the kind of walk I do. 

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Everytime I walk in a green area, I feel happier. but agitation increases every single time I walk in a road filled with traffic, there is a visual difference in my face and the kind of walk I do. 

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The Cherry on Top: Agitation of the Land

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The Cherry on Top: Agitation of the Land

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For the last four years I have been living in Delhi, the capital of India. Delhi is rich with cultural, has people coming from all over the nation and the world. Every kilometer is a different community. I think it is a mini india you find everyone everywhere.

Smoke, stubble burning it gets trapped, religious and social issue blaming each other both communities,

Waste disposal is a huge problem

West delhi canal problem and mosquitoes and the air is infected and the water as well. All appliances go bad in a few years and people still live there in big houses

Traffic people drive like crazy and are stereotyped as loud angry delhi people. But there has to be agitation, the land itself has gone through so much and instead of healing its getting used up more and more and more.

Master plan and creating parks everywhere which arent public, they soon start fto ban things playing having picnics climbing trees and in the end NO PHOTOS also.

I have an issue with everything because there is an issue with everything. Which makes the climate problem a highly complex and layered issue to be dealt with. It will not happen magically until a major catastrophe destroys a part of human civilzation and decreases the load itself.

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Hello, I am Kriti, I will turn 22 this december. I have recently graduated form the Indian Institute of Art and Design  as a Communication Designer. I absolutely love to make art in different forms from paintings to tattoos. My interests as a graphic designer lie in type, publication and documentary filmmaking.

I belong from a small city of Jalandhar in Punjab, India. I belong from the city where, when a nation-wide lockdown hit during Covid-19, within two months, we saw mountains. For the first time in my life I saw the Himalayas from my terrace with naked eyes. Punjab on the other hand comes from, Panj + Ab, the ‘land of five rivers’. Which now made me realise how climate is also part of the land I am from, makes this project more significant and personal.

My goals as a designer, who i want to be what i do etc.

MY DILEMMA

My dilemma of creating anything right now is, what value does it hold? If its a book then why a book, am i not generating more material into the world?

What is my responsibility as an artist? If I am calling myself an artist/ designer what does it mean?

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This section is about things I wonder and ponder upon. While travelling from one city to another, or just merely sitting at home there are lots of questions that keep coming to my mind. This section has been inspired by climate recipes, a method devised by Socratus, to create a recipe for every issue, enabling one look from within the layers.

These questions are mostly related to the actions I make in my day, which have a larger impact on the environment. What if we did some things differently? What if the cooperations did somethings differently? How would that bring a change to the world?

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How can you avoid plastic while travelling? 

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How can you avoid plastic while travelling? 

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We often choose convenience over responsibility, and with current marketing agendas and everything provided to us, we as travellers fall for these tactics. Is water in a PLASTIC bottle REALLY clean? Can we as travellers make our own choices and FORCE these companies to change their ways?

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“I guess, I am a climate activist now?...”

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“I guess, I am a climate activist now?...”

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2 Nov 8:46 AM

I wondered as I walked out from the grocery shop. After a three day workshop with SWISP, I was walking back to my hostel when I had the sudden urge to drink something good. So, I went into the grocery shop, picked a nice small bottle of Coconut Water, and walked out. I opened the lid, took my first sip and realised, and that’s another contribution to the giant landfill in Tughlakabad. Wait, but I was thirsty. Was it not okay to drink a little sip? No, but I could have avoided this or got something else.. A million thoughts gushed into my head when I questioned myself and said, I guess I am a climate activist now?

These words are too big for me to say out loud.

My Climate Story

I think I found my tipping point yesterday. Yesterday the entire country celebrated the most significant festival, Diwali. Diwali as I remember from my childhood was called the ‘festival of lights’, because everywhere you would see houses decorated with flowers, shops lit and beautiful with diyas. Its a festival associated with goddess Laxmi Pooja and is meant to be days of prosperity, love and ‘peace’. But yesterday I experienced the grave reality of diwali, in this regressing society. All I could see were flowers made out of plastic on sale, electronic diyas (so you don't have to make the effort of lighting each one) and fireworks. The night of Diwali was horrendous as people in my lane burst a multitude of fireworks, breathing through the toxins and harming every single being, including themselves. My entire house was filled with smoke and I saw myself sitting in a mask talking to my friend as she exclaimed, “It feels like I am talking to someone in a dystopian world.” I guess this is it? Yes, this is it.

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Now every time I go at a grocery shop, i cant help but think of the infinite products being generated, the waste which will get produced and what the packaged food will do to my body!

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Now every time I go at a grocery shop, i cant help but think of the infinite products being generated, the waste which will get produced and what the packaged food will do to my body!

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a 'social mission' festival generated this much trash.

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a 'social mission' festival generated this much trash.

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I was part of the team in Royal Enfield Social Mission Festival last year, and the one week before setup was crazy, most people didn't sleep for nights that meant lots of food and water had to be consumed! While there was other trash already being generated with exhibitions being setup, could this trash have been avoided if food was provided by the organising team for everyone, or just giving everyone funds to order takeaways is an easier way out? Do these food takeaway services make food so readily available that we don't think of anything over our comfort of getting the food to our doorstep.

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When I have meals like this, I can't not thank god for it.

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When I have meals like this, I can't not thank god for it.

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These are the kinds of meal I had when I spent a week in The Sacred Grove, Chowdapalle, Andhra Pradesh last year. This plate has been cooked by some amazing women who belong from the community around and the vegetables are 'naturally' grown by the farmers there. It a complete 'organic' and satvic meal. Not even for a day did I feel bloated or uneasy with food in this place. My body felt truly nourished.

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What happened to the festival of lights?

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What happened to the festival of lights?

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This is not fogg, but a horendous night of Diwali filled with smoke of the violent crackers.

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3. Re-connecting everyone and kids with OUR forests and land.

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3. Re-connecting everyone and kids with OUR forests and land.

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4. management of MY waste should be MY responsibility not THEIRs

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4. management of MY waste should be MY responsibility not THEIRs

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5. THE GOVERNMENT will not fix everything, because YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT.

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5. THE GOVERNMENT will not fix everything, because YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT.

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6. Creating safe spaces and finding community.

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6. Creating safe spaces and finding community.

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7. Don't fall for advertisement and marketing tactics :(((

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7. Don't fall for advertisement and marketing tactics :(((