Sangam – Australia India Design Platform is a three year program of forums and workshops in Australia and India that aims to develop fair standards in product development which can add value to craft practice in partnership with art and design

The UNESCO Code of Practice for Craft Design Collaborations seeks to provide protocols for partnerships in product development that ensure fairness and sustainability for the craft sector. The first stage in the development of these protocols involves a dialogue between Australia and India which draws on the extensive research and thinking from both countries. From this will emerge a draft set of protocols that can be tested in the field.

Sangam, the Australia India Design Platform, is managed by the Ethical Design Laboratory, a research area of RMIT Centre for Design, including researchers from Australian Catholic University and University of Melbourne. It is supported by the Australia Council as a strategic initiative of the Visual Arts Board and the Australia India Institute. Partners in Australia include Australian Craft & Design Centres including Craft Australia, Arts Law and National Association of the Visual Arts and COFA at University NSW. Partners in India include Craft Revival Trust, National Institute for Design, the National Institute of Fashion Technology and Jindal Global University. This platform is associated with the World Craft Council and the ICOGRADA through Indigo, the indigenous design network. The Code of Practice has developed out of the Two Hands Project.

Coordinator: Kevin Murray

Advisory Panel:

• Robyn Ayes (Arts Law)
• Shaun McVeigh (Uni Melb Law)
• Russell Kennedy (Icograda,Swinburne)
• Tim Scrase (ACU Ethics)
• Soumitri Varadarajan (RMIT Design)
• Liz Williamson (COFA, UNSW)
• Tamara Winikoff (NAVA)

• Ashoke Chatterjee (Ahmedabad)
• Usha Krishna (World Craft Council, Chennai)
• Minhazz Majumdar (Delhi)
• Priya Ravish Mehra (Delhi)
• Ritu Sethi (Craft Revival Trust, Delhi)
• Oishik Sircar (Jindal Global Law School, Delhi)

Residency selection panel:

• Kevin Murray
• Soumitri Varadarajan
• Sandra Bowkett
• Priya Ravish Mehra