If we think of memory as a time machine – every archive becomes a portal. The ongoing show ‘Impact: design thinking and the visual arts in young India’ is a labyrinth of many portals, each of which travel into a different era. The show is a culmination of an extensive research project that traces the points at which art and design intersect. It is the first of a series of exhibitions aimed at charting design thinking in India from the 1950s to the 1980s by excavating two key institutions: the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, and the pan-India initiative of the Weavers’ Service Centre. It’s their cross-disciplinary thinking that has cemented the foundation of these institutions. As the viewer bears witness to testaments of historic collaborations, the interstices along the borders dividing art, design and craft come alive.