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XIN-NIL-012 · The nilgiris deck

What if Coonoor's markets became the Nilgiris' living classroom?

Problem

How might the bazaar teach economics, ecology and culture better than any textbook?

Target
  • · Market vendors
  • · Schoolchildren & teachers
  • · Visitors
User needs
  • · Learning by walking
  • · Vendor pride
  • · Market vitality
Hint

Guided market walks? Vendor storytellers? A 'price of things' lesson taught between the vegetable stalls?

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Where the coriander is stacked, so is the wisdom. The market is the syllabus, the vendor the professor.

Preethi · Xin Coonoor

A pricing museum in the market. What a kilo of tomatoes cost in 1975, 1995, 2025 — and what that means. Economics you can taste.

Karthik · Xin Coonoor

The vendor is the teacher. Rs.5 a lesson. Coriander economics beats a textbook every time.

Anitha · Xin Coonoor