Research Director:
Assistant Professor Tomohiro Sakotsubo, Faculty of Design
Keywords:
Clean India, elementary school, cleaning education

[Summary of Activities]
　The Swachh Bharat campaign has been launched in India to make the nation cleaner, but it has not yet led to the achievement of a cleaner urban environment. (Photo 1.) Kyushu University has been offering proposals based on a design perspective for the social issues faced by India, and in the 2019 academic year, a program called Swachhata Abhiyan was held at a public elementary school in the city of Bhiwandi to develop a cleaning education program together with LS-Partners Co.,Ltd., a company schooled in the situation of Indian society with an ongoing cooperative relationship. We also proposed a program called the Project for the Technology Transfer and Habituation Support of Development Methods for a Cleaning Education Program to Contribute to Promoting Clean India for a program by JICA calling for grassroots support programs, and were selected, in 2021. This program aimed to habituate the social application of the cleaning education programs we had designed to date and to transfer the design methods thereof to the local members. In the 2023 academic year, we intend to break down the plan into specifics and put it into effect after concluded the contract with JICA, but before concluding that contract, we coordinated with local NGO and the stakeholders at two local public elementary schools in Bhiwandi and took a local tour.

[Content of the local survey in the 2022 academic year]
・Visit to the Z. P. School, Kuhe public elementary school in Bhiwandi (Photo 2): we visited the Z. P. School, Kuhe in Bhiwandi together with the local NGO who would be our main counterpart for the proposed JICA grassroots program, explained our cleaning education program to the current and next principals and the teachers, gaining their approval.

・Visit to the No.43 public elementary school in Bhiwandi (Photo 3): we visited the No. 43 public elementary school in Bhiwandi together with the local NGO who would be our sub counterpart for the proposed JICA grassroots program. There we explained the background to date to the current principle (who replaced the principle we had worked with in our activities up to 2019 academic year), staff from the board of education in Bhiwandi, Bhiwandi city council members, and teachers, and gained their approval of the activities.

・Tour of the Digital School in Bhiwandi(Photo 4): based on a recommendation by the staff of the Bhiwandi board of education, we visited the Digital School also located in Bhiwandi.

[Future Prospects]
We will break down the Project for the Technology Transfer and Habituation Support of Development Methods for a Cleaning Education Program to Contribute to Promoting Clean India selected for the JICA grassroots support program into further detail, and conclude the contract for implementation in the 2023 academic year.

This research received a small grant in FY2022 from the Center for Designed Futures of Kyushu University.