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Diseño y Diáspora

653. INDIAN DESIGN 3. Health for communities. A talk with Lakshmi Murthy

10 Sep 2025

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Lakshmi Murthy is an Indian designer who’s been working on reproductive health and well-being. She shares how she creates communication materials and designs menstrual pads to support health initiatives. Lakshmi also explains how she funds her social design projects and the real impact they have on communities. We dive into why she uses free licenses to share her designs, making them accessible to more people. Plus, we chat about her doctoral studies and her thoughts on how designers can work with rural communities.Some of the key materials related to her work: 1) A summary of her journey in social design 2) She keeps all her design work is in the "copy left" space3) Women at the forefront of menstrual fight. 4) Padman at work: Men power drive for menstrual hygiene5) On the NGO she co-funded: Jatan Sansthan This episode is part of the lists: India and design, Diseño gráfico, Educación en diseño (Design education), Diseño industrial, Salud y diseño (Health and design), diseño sostenible (sustainable design), Licencias para publicar, and D&D in English. This is the 3rd interview of our series on Indian social Design. This series is a collaboration with Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan. I have interviewed her in episode 623. If you are curious about her and her work, listen to that episode after this one.

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