Sudarshan Khanna's was a child of a social scientist and design educator so seeds of creativity were already inside him . He was already introduced to designing and such stuffs from an early age.
He already knew his goal of developing such thing which had both qualities of social and design works.
He studied architecture , his thesis project was about school buildings and their relationship with education. He further did his post graduation in Toy and Game Design ( Industrial design) from National Institute of Design . He later developed his interest in development projects and conducting design projects.
He collaborated with SIRDI , an NGO involved in empowering self-help groups in rural areas . His project aimed at designing play products for collaborative play between children of 3-6 years and adults. His all play products were a huge success among teens .
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He knows the importance of playing with natural textures thus he developed a hand – embroidered textile paly a gift product named “ Fill and feel”. This product ensures that the child has to fill , feel and guess what is inside , then open it and eat all edible fill. Such game products with natural textures is considered to be the best play therapies.
He had also introduced a game product namely, “ Friendship Grip” based on the concept of gripping a finger. It focuses on working with aggression but with gentleness.
Recently, Indic Teen Fest offer TOY MAKING WORKSHOP – SUDARSHAN KHANNA for teens. It was a three days fest between 8th June 2018 to 10Th june 2018.
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