"Livingboard provides access to basic services – from electricity to water treatment – while encouraging an open-source approach to design, allowing people to build their own dwellings on top of a prefabricated core." Livingboard is the prototype of a portable “motherboard system” to improve housing conditions in rural parts of India. Livingboard encourages an open-source approach to design, allowing people to build their own dwellings on top of a prefabricated core. The first pilot is currently under study for development in the Indian state of Karnataka, near Bangalore. Livingboard is a flexible “core” system to support the development of housing initiatives in any rural area of the world. This core must be positioned horizontally, constituting the floor of a 12-square meter room (3x4m). It can provide, depending on the geography and infrastructure of the region, water storage and distribution, water treatment through filtration, waste management, heating, batteries etc.