Best Practices - An overview
1. Craft Cluster Initiatives
Satyam Fashion Institute has developed and implemented a Craft Cluster Program which aims to provide the students with continuous exposure to the handloom and handicraft clusters, thus providing an opportunity for creative innovation and experimentation. Through this initiative, the institute aims to reach out to craftsmen and artisans at the ground level. The craftsmen and artisans involved in the initiative will benefit through knowledge dissemination and exposure to urban markets and design intervention, innovative designs and linkages with new markets.
The Craft Cluster initiative at the institute is designed with the objectives to synergize traditional knowledge and skills with contemporary needs and trends and to enable students to explore the linkages between environment, craft traditions and society through field studies. The institute has been successful in creating widespread awareness and sensitivity in assimilating crafts into fashion and vice-versa through this initiative. The Craft Cluster Initiative program is envisaged to supply the scholars of the institute systematic, continuous and regular exposure per annum to the diversely rich and unique handlooms and handicrafts of India. Under this dynamic initiative, the students work closely with the artisans and weavers in clusters of India and undertake activities like diagnostic study, design intervention and prototype development. The artisans and weavers also are invited to campus for exposure workshops, demonstration workshops and exhibitions where they get a chance to interact with the craft experts, upgrade their product and style knowledge and understand consumers within the urban markets.
2. The Green Initiatives:
The extensive plantation in the college premises helps in keeping the environment clean and green. Every year fund is allocated to maintain the greenery of the college. The gardener has been employed for the maintenance of gardens and plants.The institute also initiated a green audit which was a future plan for this year. It proved as a highly valuable tool for the college to improve its environmental and economic performance while reducing wastage and operating costs.
The objective was to establish a baseline of existing environmental conditions with a focus on the natural and physical environment, to improve health hygiene and safety measures, to understand the current practices of sustainability with regard to the use of water, energy generation of waste purchase of goods and many more. The aim of the audit was to generate awareness among the students concerning real issues of the environment and its sustainability. To conduct the green audit in the right manner a number of processes were included by third party auditor, like a pre-audit stage, data collection and data processing. The observations of the green audit were presented through a green audit report for understanding the practices being done in the institute related to waste management, energy conservation and water conservation.
To inculcate the learning in the students and staff members a subject on recycling is added in their curriculum. It was suggested that students may participate actively in environmental activities and organise plantation drives outside the campus to aware the general public as well as making the environment green. One plantation drive was conducted by students of department of Mass Media.
