Life in India is cheap. Injuries and deaths occur from situations that shouldn't even be accidents. These injuries and deaths are an instantiation of a slow disaster that is creeping along without any public recognition. Slow disasters are disasters that are do not reach the public perception and are subliminal. They do however cause widespread havoc covertly over a few decades.
The aim of this website is to increase the public awareness regarding these incidents and accidents that are so commonplace. Even though they are recurrent, they fail to dent the public conscience. These deaths, injuries and lost livelihoods can be averted through concerted effort for public safety in everyday situations. Vigorous and robust actions from the general public to both avert and respond to these incidents and accidents will hopefully bring out about a social change. This should go a long way in heightening sensitivity with regards to the mundane deaths that can and should be avoided. This is part of a larger initiative to sensitize the population to the loss of lives that so often go unnoticed at residential and commercial sites.
Accidents in India is an ongoing effort made by the contributions from various people from the HFSS Studios, IIT Kanpur. The idea of bringing safety into the public conscience is championed by Vivek Kant, HFSS Studios.
The current iteration of the website is designed and developed by Jayasurya. The previous iteration of the website was designed and developed by Avyay Kashyap. Thuli Chishi made the very first website concept and also designed the splash screen as part of a Teaching Assistantship during her Final Year of M.Des 2019.
The project was conceptualized by Vivek Kant. The data collection, and intial ideations was done by Vyom Kushwaha*, as a part of his Design Research Seminar project in 2019 under the guidance of Vivek Kant. The data set was taken up further as a part of this project by Vivek Kant and Avyay Kashyap and resulted in the current web-exhibit.
This web-exhibit should be cited as the following:
Kant, V., & Kashyap, A.
(2021). Accidents in Mumbai 2014-2018. HFSS Studios. Unpublished Web-Exhibit. Retrieved from
https://home.iitk.ac.in/~vkant/indian-disasters/mumbai/
The data for this
web-exhibit should be cited as the following:
Kant, V., Kushwaha, V., & Kashyap, A. (2021).
Accidents in Mumbai 2014-2018 [unpublished data set]. HFSS Studios. Retrieved from
https://home.iitk.ac.in/~vkant/indian-disasters/mumbai/datasheet.xlsx
(The dataset can
be downloaded here)
*Vyom Kushwaha continued further exploring this topic as part of his Final B.Des Project in 2019 under the guidance of Vivek Kant and R. Venkatesh. The final work is not connected to this website and present effort. Vyom Kushwaha's report is available in the IDC School of Design Library.
The project was conceptualized by Vivek Kant. The project was jointly executed by Aishwary Khobragade and Vivek Kant
Kant, V., & Khobragade, A. (2022). Accimap and crowd flow in urban infrastructure: Case study of Elphinstone road railway station tragedy, Mumbai, India. Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing & Service Industries. https://doi.org/10.1002/hfm.20972
The project was conceptualized by Vivek Kant. The project concept and script was jointly created by Vivek Kant and Stuti Swamiwal. The animation was created by Stuti Swamiwal. The video editing was done by Siddhesh Sawant. The video editing was done by Niranjana M. Barai. The audio is by Gonca Varol (Music for Meditation).
This web-exhibit should be cited as the following:
Kant, V., &
Swamiwal, S. (2022). Welts of Slow Violence: The Vishakapatnam Gas Leak, 2020. D'Source. Retrieved from https://dsource.in/case-study/welts-slow-violence
The project was conceptualized by Vivek Kant. The project was ideated and illustrated by Shreya Kasliwal. The project was co-guided by Vivek Kant and Prof. Pankaj Sekhsaria. Saikat Mondal supported in the ideations and conceptualization of the project.
This web-exhibit should be cited as the following:
Kasliwal, S., Mondal, S., Kant, V., &
Shekhsariya, P. (2021). Air Pollution in Hyderabad: 2012 ― 2019. HFSS Studios. Unpublished
Web-Exhibit. Retrieved from https://home.iitk.ac.in/~vkant/indian-disasters/hyderabad/
The project was conceptualized by Vivek Kant. The project was ideated and illustrated by Riddhi Khetan and Hardh Rathod. Saikat Mondal supported in the ideations and conceptualization of the project. The project was guided by Vivek Kant. The web exhibit was created by Jayasurya.
This web-exhibit should be cited as the following:
Khetan, R., Rathod, H.D., Mondal, S., Kant, V., On the Road.HFSS Studios. Unpublished Web-Exhibit.
Retrieved from https://home.iitk.ac.in/~vkant/indian-disasters/roadway/
India's Disasters over the Decades