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Solutions for Local Businesses
Websites, branding and digital support for independent shops, homestays and family-run services across Mirik, Darjeeling and the surrounding hills, priced to work for small local businesses.
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We are committed to our communities. So we built Local Design, Community Workshops and Solutions for Local Businesses to back local creators, preserve heritage, build skills and support small businesses.
We don’t always need to leave the hills to find opportunities. We need to sharpen our skills, support one another, and build something strong right here, so today’s youth can create their own future in these mountains.
Rakesh Tamang
Artisan, Local Archive, Mirik, Darjeeling
Our Initiatives
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Local Design
Discovering young creators, documenting indigenous craft and everyday design wisdom in a growing public archive, and building a community of makers across the Darjeeling hills.
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Community Workshops
Free, hands-on learning sessions for hill youth, entrepreneurs, and craftspeople covering digital literacy, design thinking, marketing, and AI awareness.
Learn MoreNot Charity. Conviction.
We’re a studio, not an NGO, but community capacity still matters to us.
Studio 1947 is a commercial design and technology studio, not a non-profit. We run these initiatives because the hills we work from only grow stronger when the people in them have real access to skills, tools and opportunity, not because it is charity or a CSR checkbox.
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Talent close to home.
Local youth build design, development and craft skills they can use wherever their careers take them.
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A stronger ecosystem.
When local businesses and creators do better, the wider hill economy does better with them.
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Skills, not hand-outs.
We would rather teach a skill that compounds than offer help that runs out.
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Technology for everyone.
Affordable, accessible technology shouldn’t be a privilege, so we run these workshops and build affordable solutions for local businesses.
A Founder’s Vision
I come from a farming family. Growing up, I saw first-hand how the lack of access to skills, information and confidence could hold an entire generation back, no matter how hard people worked. That is what capacity building means to me: not a buzzword, but the difference between facing life’s real challenges alone and having the tools to meet them. Studio 1947’s community work carries that belief forward.
Rabi (Rabiul Islam)
Founder & CEO, Studio 1947
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Ready to bring an initiative to your community?
Whether you want to document a local craft tradition, host a skill workshop, or collaborate on data and design, we’d love to partner with you.
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