​Placemaking India Weekend brings together architects ,artists, educators, designers, cultural practitioners, community leaders, and policymakers to explore how places are shaped through creativity, collaboration, and care. Through co-creation labs, ethical travel workshops, and reflective dialogues, the day deepens learning from the ground and translates community insights into shared practices. It reflects on Goa’s lived realities while strengthening creative ecosystems that support inclusive, regenerative, and people-centred development

​Creative Placemaking & Co-Creation

​3:00 – 3:30 PM | Summary Reflections from the Placemaking Walks

​Host: Rajeev Malagi — World Resources Institute India

​This session brings together key insights, patterns, and learnings emerging from the three living laboratories. Facilitators and participants reflect on community narratives, spatial challenges, and opportunities for regenerative placemaking.

​3:30 – 5:00 PM | Workshop: Ethical Is Fun — Rethinking How We Travel

​In collaboration with Suyatri
Host: Sumesh Mangalasseri — Suyatri

​Overview

​Ethical and sustainable travel is often perceived as a compromise. This interactive workshop reframes ethical travel as joyful, immersive, and enriching.

​Through participatory exercises and real-world scenarios, participants explore how care, fairness, and respect can be embedded into travel design—enabling deeper connections without burdening travellers with constant ethical choices. The session highlights how regenerative tourism can be intuitive, meaningful, and delightful.

​5:00 – 6:30 PM | Places That Create Us — Living, Making, Belonging

​This panel brings together artists, educators, designers, chefs, cultural entrepreneurs, and community builders to explore how creative practice shapes not only physical spaces, but also cultural, social, and learning environments.

​Moving beyond the built environment, the discussion examines how food, music, education, storytelling, public art, and community initiatives create spaces of belonging, exchange, and regeneration—nurturing identity, dignity, and collective memory.

​Speakers

• ​Rutva Trivedi (Guerrilla Art & Design)

• ​Karan Khosla (Goa Jazz Academy)

• ​Dazzle Sethia (Make It Happen)

• ​Afshan Miriam (Learning Centre)

​Moderator:
Saurav Roy — Founder, Switch & Roy Studio & Member, Placemaking India & Creative Community of Goa

​This afternoon programme deepens the weekend’s focus on co-creation—linking community knowledge, ethical tourism, and creative practice to build places that foster belonging, resilience, and shared prosperity.