Textiles, Craft Economies & Sustainable Manufacturing

This journey examines textiles as both heritage and industrial system. Beginning in Ahmedabad, students study textile manufacturing systems, entrepreneurship, and the spectrum between informal and formal supply chains.

In Jaipur, students engage with craft clusters, design studios, and export networks to understand value addition, gendered labor systems, and sustainability transitions. Circularity workshops and waste diagnostics deepen the sustainability lens.

The final phase in Delhi situates findings within MSME policy and industrial incentives, asking how policy instruments interact with embedded social and production realities.

Students will:

Map textile value chains across formal and informal networks.
Analyze water use, dyeing processes, and circularity innovations.
Evaluate gender, skill transmission, and labor structures.
Examine entrepreneurship and export competitiveness.
Produce a Sustainability & Competitiveness Dossier.

Industrial Engineering

Sustainability

Economics

Development Studies

Design

Entrepreneurship

Public Policy

Ahmedabad

Jaipur

Delhi

Day	Location	Academic Engagement	Learning Emphasis
1	Ahmedabad	Arrival; textile systems orientation	Readiness
2	Ahmedabad	Seminar: Formal-informal production networks; entrepreneurship lens	Mixed economies
3	Ahmedabad	Textile unit visit; quality and scaling workshop	Production systems
4	Ahmedabad	Sustainability lab; dyeing & water-use audit simulation	Environmental trade-offs
5	Ahmedabad → Jaipur	Moving lecture on craft cluster evolution	Contextual transition
6	Jaipur	Craft cluster immersion; design studio dialogue	Skill & value addition
7	Jaipur	Market access workshop; export mapping session	Competitiveness
8	Jaipur	Gender and labor systems seminar; informal contracting analysis	Social infrastructure
9	Jaipur	Circularity lab; upcycling innovation workshop	Sustainable transitions
10	Jaipur → Delhi	Synthesis studio; dossier structuring	Translating field data
11	Delhi	MSME & PLI policy workshop; guest policy analyst	Policy alignment
12	Delhi	Dossier completion & peer review	Integration
13	Delhi	Capstone presentations; departures	Closure