Solar Decathlon India presents, Dumb Ways to Build. Created to highlight poor building practices and their negative impact on the environment, society, and economy, it is a parody of ‘Dumb Ways to Die’.
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Lyrics:
Pick a site on a railway track
Put your building on an earthquake crack Cutting million trees and planting roads And houses with their electric Loads
Dumb ways to build
So many dumb ways to build
Dumb ways to build
So many dumb ways to build
Put your building facing west
Make a toast of every guest
Concrete steel, here and there
Carbon emissions to poison the air
Dumb ways to build
So many dumb ways to build
Dumb ways to build
So many dumb ways to build
Forget to put a bathroom drain
Add handrails that cause you pain
Elevator shafts that taper down
Bad staircase, trip over your gown
Dumb ways to build
So many dumb ways to build
Dumb ways to build
So many dumb ways to build
Start building with no hard hat
Walk barefoot toes go splat
No gloves on, no goggles too
I wonder what these wires do?
Dumb ways to build
So many dumb ways to build
Dumb ways to bui-i-ld
So many dumb
So many dumb ways to build
Building on a melting glacier or a flood plain
Letting all your rainwater run down the drain
Heat the earth enough to fry eggs on the sidewalk
With homes that must have ACs always running
These mistakes we make are all avoidable
And that is why we must let go of these
Dumb ways to build
Dumb ways to build
Dumb ways to bui-i-ld
So many dumb
So many dumb ways to build
Build less. Build smart - a message from Solar Decathlon India
CREDITS
Original Concept and Melody:
Playside Studios
Metro Trains Melbourne
Lyrics:
Prasad Vaidya
Pooja Suresh Hollannavar
Music
Coordination:
Maniskumar Konsam
Recording / Tracking:
Maniskumar Konsam
Editing:
Jamie D'Silva
Rakesh U P
Mixing:
Jamie D'Silva
Rakesh U P
Vocals
Lead:
Janani Venkatesh
Chorus:
Aditi Apparaju
Jamie D'Silva
Shruti Ghosh
Sirigowri Guruprasad
Utkarsh Mathur
Amit Chandra
Animation
Coordination:
Vijay Dutta
Animators:
Sanju Johnson
Kiran Rajshekar
Voices that didn't make it:
Ahwaan Nayak
Amanda Thounajoam
Bhaskar Natarajan
Juny K Wilfred
Kruthika Ganesh
Manis Kumar Konsam
Pooja Suresh Hollannavar
Prasad Vaidya
Rashi Mehra
Sanjay Prakash
Sarath
Sreejith Suresh
Suyashi Srivastava
Tabassum Jahan
Umadevi Chandramohan