Raahul speaks about transforming discarded products into new products with the help of great design and skills of local artisans. Exploring sustainable intentions via the mediums of products, service, systems and policies. How design has to break its conventional barriers and go to places where it is most needed. 

Raahul Khadaliya

Raahul is a designer, self taught photographer & artist, systems thinker focused on sustainable practices in the city of Bangalore. On a mission to design sustainably, he utilises his training in communication & product design to develop sustainable and user-centric design solutions. ABCD - Raahul’s studio - explores sustainability through various mediums of design targeting social, environmental, cultural and economical aspects.

The Second Life, a sustainable brand, is an initiative to bring awareness about sustainability through simple day to day products, working with waste materials, their materiality and usability. This initiative is, also, a result of the conscious need for a progressive milestone or case study of how businesses can adapt sustainable design and thinking.

Raahul, a vegan by choice, lives a very sustainable life involving social, ethical, environmental values and experimenting with them in his day to day life to find an alternate constantly. He lives in Indiranagar, Bangalore with his beautiful dogs.

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