BUILDING BRIDGES BRICK BY BRICK
When we embarked on this journey, we were not sure what to expect. We were just excited and curious, full of purpose and hope, brimming with energy for what could be possible.
Creation is an act of facilitating emergence, is it not? We plan one thing, but quite another – or many “anothers” – happen. Over the last 1.5 years, our “anothers” have given us a glimpse of the possibilities resting within our brand, Kattoos.
Kattoos comes from the Kannada word “kattu” which means “to build”, “to make” or “to construct”. This little word holds together our ambition to catalyse building connections, making ties, and binding together that which is disconnected, severed and fragmented in our collective realities. We seek through this venture, to build bridges brick by brick, across differences.
We believe this is possible only when diverse conceptualisations and systems of organising, of people, material and actions, bind together in new innovative ways. For us play facilitators, the experience that best resonates this is creating new structures with open-ended resources like clay, sticks, and mud. In our eyes, each of us are craftspeople, piecing together the resources we have, to create new combinations, new constructions, new realities.
True enough, we are now witnessing the slow evolution of bridges – some we had hoped for, and others that have taken us by surprise. The bridge between the past and the future, the bridge between the heart, mind and body, the bridge across urban and rural divide, bridges across class and caste, the bridge between business and social reconstruction… and so many more.
So at its core, our Kattoos journey is the unfolding of the art of building bridges. And we are truly awed and deeply grateful to be witness to it. This blog is an attempt to share with you our bridge building learnings. We call it Kattoos Stories.