Hyderabad: To create a sustainable livelihood opportunity for OJHA craftsmen and encourage the young generation of the Ojha family to adapt and maintain the practice of their ancestral crafts, the Institute of Indian Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H) has done workshops.
The institution will also create a traditional digital artifact repository to track the evolution of the design of the craft of Oja.
Deepak John Mathew, Design Department, IIT-H, together with his team, has carried out a design intervention workshop on Dhokra Gonds Ojha’s crafts from Adilabad as part of an insightful and intangible cultural heritage of science about science and Heritage Research Initiative Program, Innovation Center Design and center of institutional innovation, IIT-H.
The workshop focuses on training the young generation of the Ojha community in traditional Dhokra crafts under the supervision and training of the main craftsmen chosen from the Ojha community.
Traditionally, most artifacts are made for GondS ritualistic purposes, which are part of the cultural heritage of Takbenda from Gondasi Raj.
“We define IIT-H as inventing and innovating in technology for humanity.
Preserving DHOCRA using the concept of design and encouraging future generations to maintain it fulfill our motto.
IIT-H also has a rural development center to lift rural livelihoods with technology assistance,” BS said Murty, Director, IIT-H.
The Institute will create a digital repository of all artifacts made in workshops using photogrammetry and 3D digital printing which will be useful for researchers for further study and for visitors from all over the world to get insight into the culture of the heranquet Raj and related communities and their traditional practices .
The digital museum is intended to preserve traditional artifacts with non-destructive methods where original artifacts will remain with the community and 3D print artifacts will be served to meet the objectives of sharing knowledge about Telangana cultural heritage at the global level, where museums can be visited virtually from anywhere in the world, reading IIT-H is read.