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In a recent interview, Oakland Unified School District Superintendent Tony Smith shared with me one of the most mind-numbing statistics I have ever heard: According to the Alameda County Health Department, a black child born in West Oakland will, on average, die 15 years before a white child born in the hills of Oakland.

Igarashi Design Studio creates child-friendly interiors for pre-schoolers in Tokyo. Check out this endearing project and leave us your views...

A Rumpus Lamentation on What We Lost Say you took the long view of September 11, 2001, the view from the heavens, the view of a compassionate celestial being. From up there, you'd see that approximately 150,000 earthlings died that day. Most of these deaths were caused by malnutrition and age-related illnesses, roughly 1500 were murders, hundreds more were due to civil wars. Also, 2,977 Americans were killed in terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington. *** A lot of human beings died, that's my point. They all left behind mourners. Imagine the mother who watched her child die of hunger. Here's this tiny person, a daughter. She has a name, a face. She doesn't explode or fall from a skyscraper. She simply stops breathing. No cameras record her final moment, the lamentation of that mother. These images are not replayed on the television over and over and over. What would be the point of that? *** I recently went on a radio program to discuss the literature of 9/11. The host spent most of the hour chatting with people about their memories. They all talked about watching television. They were telling personal stories about watching television.

To a child, the K11 MUSEA Donut Playhouse in #Hongkong is a chimaera of colour, a spatial experience that brings imagination to life! Check out Panorama Design Group's sensitive design for this one-of-a-kind kids' shopping arcade cum playhouse

Learning is an on-going process. And especially for children below the age of six, the environment around them is a constant facilitator. Specialist designer for children' spaces, Kajal Gaba throws light on how balance is important and over-indulgence needs to be kept at bay, while designing learning space interiors for children. Check it out here.

Specialist designer for children' spaces, Kajal Gaba begins a three-part series on "interior design for children". In this, part 1, she addresses the role of design in the holistic development of children age 0-6 years.

The critical collaboration of Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum and BMW Guggenheim Lab in Mumbai has hypothecated the adage, 'Inculcate it in the child', by engaging young impressionable minds with urban issues through art and craft... Click the link to read more>>

Taktik Design raises the bar of institutional interiors with this school in Canada. Check it out and leave us your views...

Read the Mayur's story to become a doctor as he grow up. He is an Akshaya Patra beneficiary from Gujarat and having the attitude of 'never-give-up'.