"When I started Riverside school 10 years ago it became a lab, a lab to prototype and refine a design process that could consciously infect the mind with the 'I Can' bug."
Kiran Bir Sethi
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“We're making school worth coming to every day. We make our kids feel like they matter to us.”Pearl Arredondo education reformer
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Kiran told the story of founding the Riverside School and seeing the local + global kids empowerment movements it set off at TEDIndia 2009.
TED |
In 2009, Kiran took her Riverside prototype and used it to launch a worldwide education movement. The Design for Change contest began in 2009 with 30,000 schools in India. Today, 35 countries and 300,000 child change agents participate. The work of Kiran's organization was recognized with a 2011 award from architecture and design magazine Dezeen. The poster from the 2011 international contest put on by Design for Change features some of the places + projects inspired by Kiran's movement.
Design for Change via Dezeen |