Tejas Sidnal is the founder of Carbon Craft Designs, a Goa-based startup, offers a range of tiles that features patterns inspired by Indian cities and industries. What makes Tejas’ company unique is that it has created Carbon Tile, a tile made of upcycled carbon by using carbon waste from factories as a resource. Carbon Tile is addressing and dealing with the climate change issue by using principles of local design and sustainable craft to provide an alternative material solution to architects, businesses and end-consumers.
An architect and innovator, Tejas completed his Master’s from AA School of Architecture, London, in 2013. During the course, he learnt about three important streams: biomimicry, material systems, and computational designs. It was while researching clean air as Director of Breathe that Tejas found that 39% of global carbon emissions came from the construction and building industry.
Carbon Tile was one of the winners of the No Waste Challenge in 2021, a competition initiated by What Design Can Do and the IKEA Foundation, that called upon all creatives, hackers and dreamers to submit bold solutions to reduce waste and rethink our entire production and consumption cycle.