Creating Meaningful Design

After two decades in the field, Ankur Choksi, Design Principal at Studio Lotus, has mastered the art of using conscious design to empower the environment and all the stakeholders involved in the process

- Ankur Choksi

Introduce us to the principles of ‘Conscious Design’.

AC: ‘Conscious Design’ defines the way we practice at Studio Lotus, emerging out of the value system that we all believe in and build on as a collective. These values guide our process and help us make appropriate and effective decisions as a practice. Some of the key dimensions of these values are:

We operate with a great sense of gratitude for having the opportunity to do the work we get to do.

Who we are as people brings the innovation and energy every day at work – hence, learning collectively and as individuals is a huge focus in the studio, which continuously shifts the way we work.

Fostering a collaborative culture that brings out the best in everyone extends beyond the internal team, by being very conscious of all the stakeholders we impact, which includes our clients, our client’s clients, the co-designers or consultants, executing partners and goes all the way down to the socioeconomic groups that will be impacted by our construction methods or the footprints of our projects.

We believe in facilitating and directing a process that enriches each and every one on the project journey, while allowing for the collective genius to emerge, pushing the limits of what the team and the project itself can achieve.

And lastly, we always dive deep to create a keen awareness of who came before us and those we have around us. Therefore, an understanding of ingenious history and the local context in terms of both skills and material are very critical for us. Aspects of sustainable solutions are not woven in as an additional layer – they are integral to our approach.

Creating meaning for everything and for everyone we touch as well as always celebrating the context in which we exist is what we live by at the studio.