Mahatma Gandhi tells us: “The village is the microcosm of India”.

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 The Eternal Gandhi museum allowed show new  product design inspired by village aesthetics and hand skills.

 

With proper design, the  village has the potential to transform itself, design its sanitation, display its concern for the environment and become a source of design innovation.

 

Gandhi visualized an economically sustainable India visualized  as a network of self sufficient villages,  which contributed to the larger development of the nation, and this vision has been  was formulated in his theory of concentric circles of Development: “My idea of village swaraj is that it is a complete republic, independent of its neighbors for its own vital wants, and yet interdependent for many others in which dependence is a necessity.”

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The individual is at the center and the village, and the group of villages encircle  others in concentric circles;  In this flat and anti pyramid structure, composed of innumerable villages, there will be an ever-widening  oceanic circles,  establishing an idealized non-violent  economic order.

 

‘An ideal Indian village will be so constructed as to lend itself to perfect sanitation. It will have cottages with sufficient light and ventilation built of material obtainable within a radius of five miles of it.

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The village lanes and streets will be free of all avoidable dust. It will have wells according to its needs and accessible to all. It will have .... common meeting place, a village common for grazing its cattle, a cooperative dairy, primary and secondary schools in which industrial education will be the central fact, and it will have panchayats for settling disputes. It will produce its own grains, vegetables and fruit, and its own khadi...’ (Harijan, 9 January1937).