SOLUTIONS
Illustrated and Plain Language Law
We break down laws, procedures, and judgments through storytelling. Technical terms and complex sentences make it difficult to communicate what the law truly means. To address this, we make laws more comprehensible using plain language. Further, to demonstrate real-world implications and relevance to lived experiences, we also use contextually grounded visuals (including infographics, comics, posters and audio-visuals) that resonate with diverse audiences — including those without any formal education.
Whether as part of community outreach or legal literacy campaigns, or training programs, visual law provides a powerful entry point to restore agency, to introduce complex legal frameworks and to help people experience and engage with the law.
Games - Adda Play
Where law meets imagination, and learning gets playful, Adda Play comes in. Using elements of play (including board games, card games, quizzes, crosswords, scavenger hunt, individual & group activities, etc.), we believe justice can transcend beyond courtrooms and textbooks, and people and communities can live, feel, and engage with it. Adda Play is where we remix legal design, institutional knowledge, and big questions about democracy, rights, and the future of justice making.
Why play? Because play is how we learn best. It builds empathy, sparks curiosity, and makes complex systems easier to grasp. It encourages collaboration, questioning, exploration—and definitely a bit of fun.
Workshops and Training- Adda School
Our workshops and training programs at Adda School are designed to be dynamic, participatory, cross-sectoral and deeply community-driven, featuring hands-on activities, role-playing exercises, and real-world scenarios to facilitate participants to practice and reflect on their learnings and to spark their curiosity to explore further. This includes training programs on spatial planning, artificial intelligence (AI), legal literacy and workshops on legal design, building mission driven organizations, engaging with failure and building a pro bono ecosystem.
Through most of these programs, we seek to enable participants / communities to see themselves in the law and may also co-design interventions, including content, research and tools, alongside our partners.
Music - Anthems for Justice
Our ‘Anthems for Justice’ (AfJ) initiative has been conceptualized to make justice and the law more accessible to citizens, using music and art as tools for change. Art and music are powerful tools because they combine emotional resonance with a unifying message, inspiring solidarity and collective action.
Under the larger ‘Anthems for Justice’ umbrella, we have initiated projects to develop music anthems (for raising awareness and inspiring action), to explore various perspectives on the relationship between art/music and justice (through blogs series) and to develop content that breaks down legal issues faced by artists (relating to intellectual property rights, contracts, etc).
Action Research
We focus on emerging and urgent legal issues pertaining to access to justice, ranging from constitutional literacy, performance of district courts, legal aid and pro bono frameworks to designing socially responsible law firms, designing justice spaces to AI in Indian judiciary.
We aim to inform policy, strengthen grassroot advocacy, and foster legal innovations that are contextually grounded and systemically informed, by drawing from data, field insights (including community voices and lived realities), and case studies, and by adopting an interdisciplinary approach (bringing together professionals from legal, design, and social science backgrounds).
We are committed to ethical, feminist research practices, prioritising informed consent, data sovereignty, and long term accountability.
