Meet Nitin Namdev, owner of an electronic shop with an existing network of regional electronic shops, present close to the rural villages. A partnership between Rural Spark and Nitin leverages on this network for maintenance on the tools provided to … Continue reading →

Through a one week training in Jaipur, Rural Spark explores the possibilities of local production and assembling. Together with ‘Team 4 Skills’ in Jaipur we assembled 45 more lamps and 3 more docks. These products will be used in the … Continue reading →

Rural Spark aims to create the energy networks of the future in India. We recognize that we cannot do this alone, we need the villages of India. Today we started collaboration with our first official local light supplier in the … Continue reading →

Since this week, we are able to show what we were talking about these last weeks in India. The first new prototypes are working. The lamp shown in the picture is the new LED lamp we will bring into the … Continue reading →

After months of discussing, designing and constructing prototypes today the real thing started. The three of us arrived in Delhi together with the (almost) completed prototypes of Led Lamps, Share Cubes, and the Solar Docks. The next 8 weeks we … Continue reading →

Thursday 22nd of December, Rural Spark won the ‘Keep an Eye Social Design Award’. In total there were 15 participants and 6 nominees. The award provides Rural Spark with professional coaching and money to make the first steps towards building … Continue reading →

Last week, an article on Rural Spark’s initiative was published in the “INSide Information” magazine. This is a small magazine published by studyassociation Mollier from the master Building Services for it’s members as well as interested companies and sponsors.     … Continue reading →

Lately we have been working hard to put our vision in a concrete roadmap which will be initiated in the beginning of 2012. Together with experts on different fields, this roadmap is shaped more and more. Thereby, a large visualisation … Continue reading →

The Dutch Design Week 2011 opened last weekend. As posted before, Rural Spark participates at three different locations. The graduation project of Evan Mertens is on display in the faculty of Architecture. Close by, in the main building of the Technical … Continue reading →

The graduation project of Marcel van Heist will be exhibited at the ID’11 Expo, which will be on display in the ‘Hoofdgebouw’ (Main Building), of the University of Technology in Eindhoven during the Dutch design week from 22 till 30th … Continue reading →

Today Rural Spark presented the ‘Local Light’ project at the townhall of ‘s-Hertogenbosch. The project will be the start for Rural Spark. In this project we aim to lift the initiative from ‘graduation projects’ into actual continuously running projects in … Continue reading →

The graduation project of Marcel will be shown in the ‘made in brainport’ exhibition. This exhibition travels around the world participating in various events. Starting in Istanbul during the Istanbul Design Week. The exhibition aims to display design and innovation … Continue reading →

From 22 till the 30th of October the Dutch Design Week (DDW) takes place in Eindhoven. During this week all through Eindhoven 260 different events are held and over 150.000 visitors are expected, all in the name of design. Rural … Continue reading →