{"id":1492,"date":"2020-04-11T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-11T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2023-02-14T07:45:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T07:45:17","slug":"the-art-of-jugaad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/the-art-of-jugaad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Jugaad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp_Image_2020-03-07_at_10.50.55_AM_2_1280x-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp_Image_2020-03-07_at_10.50.55_AM_2_1280x-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp_Image_2020-03-07_at_10.50.55_AM_2_1280x-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp_Image_2020-03-07_at_10.50.55_AM_2_1280x-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp_Image_2020-03-07_at_10.50.55_AM_2_1280x-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/WhatsApp_Image_2020-03-07_at_10.50.55_AM_2_1280x.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u201c<\/em><\/strong><em>Jugaad is a colloquial Hindi, Bengali, Marathi \u091c\u0941\u0917\u093e\u0921, Punjabi and Urdu word, which has various meanings depending on the context it is used in<\/em><strong><em>.<\/em><\/strong><strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><br><\/em><\/strong><em>Roughly translated, Jugaad is a non-conventional, frugal innovation, often termed as &#8220;hack.&#8221; It could also refer to an innovative fix or a simple work-around, a solution that bends the rules, or a resource that can be used in such a way.\u201d (Wikipedia)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our supply chain manager, Sonia, introduced us to this term a few weeks ago when due to a misprint in our design, one of our blocks (a semi-circle) was carved at a diameter of fourteen inches, rather than eleven. (Below you can see our baffled printer realizing he\u2019s run out of room for the remainder of the design in the first image.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sonia and the printer tapped into the spirit of&nbsp;<em>jugaad&nbsp;<\/em>to both improvise on the original design, and to recreate it by using a smaller full circle block partially covered by newspaper.<br><br>Ironically, this design is titled&nbsp;<em>Change Your Mind<\/em>&nbsp;and is supposed to embody a sense of flexibility, flow and playfulness.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re grateful for the collaboration and fusion that take place at so many levels through this process\u2014our interpersonal relationships, our problem solving, and of course, our gorgeous designs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slowly,&nbsp;<em>jugaad<\/em>&nbsp;is becoming the spirit animal of our start-up, and inspiring us to undertake our mission of creating a smaller, stranger world with grit, resourcefulness and imagination.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When our trip to India recently was cancelled due to growing fears around the Corona virus pandemic, it was\u00a0<em>jugaad\u00a0<\/em>that helped us pivot and find new ways to strengthen our vendor relationships and capture footage of the craftsmanship in action.<br><br>As a small business, we\u2019ll have many opportunities to practice this, and know that the deep wisdom of\u00a0<em>jugaad\u00a0<\/em>is the awareness that all of us have within us an innate capacity for transforming our challenges into our triumphs.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ArtofJugaad_large.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1495\" width=\"355\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ArtofJugaad_large.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ArtofJugaad_large-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/changeyourmind_large.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1497\" width=\"365\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/changeyourmind_large.jpg 360w, https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/changeyourmind_large-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/blockprinting_large-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1500\" width=\"736\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/blockprinting_large-2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/blockprinting_large-2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cJugaad is a colloquial Hindi, Bengali, Marathi \u091c\u0941\u0917\u093e\u0921, Punjabi and Urdu word, which has various meanings depending on [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepostcardedit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}