IDC workshop :In a Planet of our own -Sustainability issues

I got a chance to participate in an international workshop organized by IDC, IIT Mumbai. It was titled "In a Planet of our own", dated 3,4,5 November,2009. Entry was through competition in which participants were required to design anything in a circle of diameter 1200 px.

Following was my entry- 

Here's a small explanation of what I designed -

I have tried to depict the concept of Sustainability through the chinese symbol of Yin-Yan.Yin-Yan is the symbol of balance between the positive and negative energies in the cosmos. Nature also works on this principle. The destructive processes are counter balanced by perpetual creative processes.But nowadays, due to humans’ indiscriminate use of resources and everincreasing exploitation of Nature, the balance is disturbed. The malignity of human acts is overshadowing the purity of Nature. In such a scenario, Mother Nature can do nothing, but to regret of her own fate and helplessly see her own sons, exploiting her.

In the workshop we were divided in groups dealing with sustainability issues in different areas-

1. Trash and Consequences Principles
2. Water and Sustainability
3. Sustainability and Indigenous Cultures
4. Sustainable packaging
5. Innovation and Sustainability
6. Materials and Sustainability
7. Sustainability Principles
8. Product Sustainability

I was in the group " Product Sustainability".

We had to come up with a product/presentation at the end of day 3. We had to deal with the sustainability issues of food. I worked on the redesign of "Gujia", a sweet/food prepared during the festival of HOLI. I prepared a poster to be dispalyed -