Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology

In this on-going project, students of the second year of the the Foundation Studies programme and specialisation students from Visual Communication, Textile, Furniture and Interior Design work in teams to design and develop furniture, interior spaces for home-stays, textile and linens, travel guides and maps of Hoysala region in Karnataka.

The project is part of a larger regional heritage planning project called the Hoysala Heritage Trail, largely managed by UNESCO with the support of the Karanataka Tourism Department.

The Furniture & Interior Design students re-designed three of the identified old homes as home stays and two old homes as Boutique Hotels. They also designed and developed furniture prototypes for the homes, being sensitive to the heritage of the place and also bringing in a sense of modernism. There were various concepts based on costs.

The Textile Design and Foundation Studies students designed home accessories and collections of printed textiles for the home-stays and boutique hotels.

The Visual Communication students worked on developing maps, travel guides and signage for the region.