The Corona Quilt Project

Grade 8 students enlisted their support for the ‘The Corona Quilt Project’ that launched multiple presentations in Mumbai. It began during the time of Covid to give people an outlet to express their personal pandemic experiences through the designing of a 'square'. Today, the Corona Quilt project takes tangible form, as each of these squares comes together in a community art installation.

Our students made drawings which visually spread awareness and mobilized our community. Individual squares come together thematically to incorporate a larger message of hope, love and community welfare. The quilts that manifested out of these drawings in squares were seen as installations across Mumbai.

“On the Rise”, the presentation on the municipal School on the Sea face, wraps around the facade of the building with over 5000 individual narratives coming together. It draws a parallel from the butterfly- a symbol of transformation, evolution and resurrection. This has been a time of monumental and purposeful metamorphosis, that has given birth to new perspectives and visions. The aim of the presentations was to draw out children’s emotions to depict solidarities and continuities between humans and nature. The concepts embody the present reality of the covid pandemic and our collective responsibility to empower our community. The project took a yearlong time from planning and conception and over 3 months’ time to completion. DAIS students made a difference!