Social Design Collaborative is a Delhi based art and architectural practice that works on inclusion in the built environment, from gender parity in public spaces to housing rights. Through interdisciplinary collaborations, the team works in under-resourced neighborhoods on building critical community spaces as well as on creating public awareness through art and public space projects. In 2022, the studio co-curated an Indo-French public art festival on gender, sexuality and public space across 6 cities in India which then traveled to Lyon. Over 2023-24, the studio curated a national exhibition honoring the work of 80 women architects and the need for gender parity in the field of architecture at the India Art Architecture and Design Biennale, Delhi. The team firmly believes that design has the potential to address and solve many of our society’s current challenges but it cannot do that through design alone. Since 2017, the design studio has been working with community based organizations, social workers, activists, academics, lawyers and government organizations, whilst bringing together the diverse stakeholders involved, on ground as well as at a planning level. For its efforts, the studio was awarded the Beazley Design of the Year 2021 by the Design Museum, London, and the founder Swati Janu is the recipient of the Moira Gemmill Award for Emerging Architecture, W Awards 2022 instituted by the Architectural Review.