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DDW 2025
Eindhoven, NL

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1m2 DDW curation
Oct 2025
Eindhoven, NL

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Workshop - Objects that define us at Bangs Festival 2025
Amsterdam, NL

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EkChitra Etikopakka Craft Project
Aug 2025 - ongoing 
Hyderabad, IN

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OSCAM group show
Jun 2025
Amsterdam, NL

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studio samayam is an international design studio ( NL+IND ) practicing design research and narrative product design and development. we specialise in storytelling and experiences embodied in objects, born from decentralised design practices, achieved through close collaboration with generationally skilled craftspeople.



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thefoundededit by studio samayam designs with found objects from various parts of India used by craftspeople, transforming them into lamps to narrate stories of craft, trade, histories, politics and people tangibly



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naliya



naliya is a lamp made of ceramic roof tiles used in Kutch, India for traditional mud houses. The object is used by the potters in Lodai, Kutch to create a chimney for an underground oven to bake their clay pieces in. Ismail Bhai stands as the sole full-time potter in Lodai Potters Village - once a thriving potters community. These ceramic roof tiles are fragile and it is in their nature to chip, break, shatter which the naliya lamp embraces and celebrates. 

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cactus I


Agra, rich in heritage and Mughal architecture, is home to a community of ceramic artisans. Using local kilns, glazing techniques, and tools. they craft a range of mass-produced ceramics. Among them travels the ‘red trees’ - mysterious object, origins even unknown to the sellers - carrying the story of a self-evolved craft and a deep rooted local knowledge system. cactus I gives these ‘red trees’ context through imagination and attempting to connect it with the Agra’s proximity to the Thar Desert.

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shuttle


In the cloth weaving process, a shuttle is a pointed wooden and brass object that carries the weft yarn horizontally. The shuttle lamp was inspired by nature of weaving in the weavers village in Pochampalli, Telangana, India to make ikkat sarees. While many sarees are sold globally, the used of the tool to weave a saree is an obscured design object and broken shuttles are discarded, which is used to create the shuttle lamps. 

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flower


Kailasapatnam, an artisanal town in Andhra Pradesh, India has been producing wood turned toys for more than 400 years. The inspiration for flower arose out of a design sensitization workshop that A Shree Tej led for Etikoppaka lacquerware toys in Kailasapatnam. In this workshop he urged artisans to experiment with colour, form and technique. The waste pieces of certain Etikoppaka toys are equipped in the flower lamp.

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rakabi


rakabi is a everyday object from Kutch, Gujrat. It is a saucer found and used at every chai (tea) small stalls which serve chai on the go for anyone and everyone. All across Kutch in India the saucers are the standard handmade saucers that everyone drinks chai in. On the rakabi, the outer blue line measures a complete standard cup of chai and the inner line measures cutting chai (half a cup of chai). 

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