DESIGN RESEARCH, CURATION AND HERITAGE CONSULTING Showcasing innovation legacies embedded in
products, traditions, and institutions
Every product, tradition, and institution carries a history within it — of decisions made, technologies adopted, and cultures shaped. Most remain untold. ArcShapers researches, interprets, and communicates these innovation legacies of organisations that understand the value of what they have built.
FEATURED PROJECT
Shaping Dreams, Designing Lives: A Godrej Story
An exhibition tracing over 125 years of Godrej innovation through three iconic products — the steel almirah, the tubular steel chair, and the refrigerator.
What We Do
Product & Brand Histories
Researching innovation journeys and turning them into assets brands can use.
Archives & Collections
Researching innovation journeys and turning them into assets brands can use.
Research & Interpretation
Researching innovation journeys and turning them into assets brands can use.
Design Research
Field research into craft traditions, industrial systems, and cultural life of objects across India.
Insights
Inside the archive: curating a century of Godrej everyday objects
What happens when you excavate 1,50,000 records to tell the story of three objects — an almirah, a chair, and a refrigerator — and the lives they quietly shaped?
Object as method: reading the world through what we make and use
A binding thread across design research, heritage curation, and innovation strategy — and why the most powerful analytical lens may be the one we hold, sit on, or live with every day.