Diya NathwaniCampaigns
Campaign concept · Homes, Nagpur

Walls
That Raised Us.

This campaign asks every family to recreate one old family photo inside their new home, so that the new house gets its first memory before the family even finishes unpacking.

pencil marks, then a Polaroid ↓
✓ For: Nagpur families about to move into a new home
✓ The act: recreate one old photo in the new home
✓ The ask: book a site visit and bring your photo
✓ The pilot: 90 days, ten families
Rooted in memories. Ready for what's next.
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01Brand ki samajh

A project that sells rooted, family-first living in Nagpur.

The project positions itself around the line "Rooted in memories. Ready for what's next," so the brand already speaks the language of family, belonging and continuity rather than the language of square feet and discounts.

Its voice is warm and grounded, and its buyer is a Nagpur family weighing one of the biggest decisions of its life with a lot of emotion and a lot of caution.

This campaign suits the brand because it turns the existing line into something a family can physically do, instead of something a hoarding can only say.

Brand model
MemoryFamilyProofPlacefour pillars hold the idea up
Pillar model: memory, family, proof and place carry the brand line "Rooted in memories".
02Observations

Three human truths we noticed before writing a single line.

These are strategist observations to be validated in launch-stage research with Nagpur families, and they are not survey results.

Walls and festivals
Walls have always carried what a family believes in.Hand-painted, local, lived with
Festival nights are when a home feels most like a home.The photo every family takes, every year
03Insight

The leap from observation to insight.

Families who are about to buy a new home feel a quiet grief about leaving the old one, because the memories live in the walls and the new house has none yet. So the project can become the place that gives them their first memory before they even move in.

In short, people do not move homes, they move stories.

Insight model
Old homeNew homeOne photothe overlapmemory is the overlap
Venn diagram: the old home and the new home overlap in one recreated photo.
first memory

In the old house, a child stood against the wall every birthday while a parent drew a pencil line above their head.

Year after year the lines climbed, and the wall quietly kept the score of a whole childhood.

Then the family bought a new home, and the old wall had to stay behind in a box of memories.

The new walls were clean and beautiful, but they had no pencil marks, no stains and no stories yet.

So we ask the family to dig out one old photo and stand in the same pose in front of the new wall.

The flash goes off, the photo goes up, and the new house finally has its first memory.

Click through the story

What happens after the family moves in?

1

The family takes a first-night photo in the same pose, in front of the same new wall.

2

That photo is added to the memory wall inside the site office, next to the old photo it answers.

3

The wall gets its first pencil mark for the youngest child, so the new house starts its own height chart.

4

The next visiting family sees the wall, recognises their own story in it, and asks to bring their photo.

Customer journey
Dig out photoPose in new homeSide by sidePost the tagWall in officeSite visitthe family does the marketing
Flowchart: from an old photo in a drawer to a booked site visit.
The hoarding moment
A new home still has to learn the family's festival lights.The first Diwali is the first real memory
05 The idea, as a six-piece brief

Six sentences that hold the whole idea.

1 Business problem

A housing project in Nagpur needs more family visits to turn into bookings, and it needs about 5 homes sold to break even (projected).

2 Consumer problem

Buying a new home feels like leaving the old one behind, because the old house holds the memories and the new one is bare walls.

3 Insight

People do not move homes, they move stories.

4 Solution

Families recreate one old family photo inside the new home and share it as Walls That Raised Us.

5 Consumer goal

The family wants to know that the new house can feel like home before they move in.

6 Business goal

The project wants two to three times more site-office visits (projected) and a faster yes or no.

06Depth

The strategy under the idea, in plain agency terms.

ICPNagpur families aged roughly 28 to 45, upgrading from a rented or older home, with children, and with grandparents who influence the decision.
Not forPure investors who never plan to live in the home, because the idea works on belonging and a family has to be present to take part.
Hook"Bring one old family photo and we will help you recreate it in your future home."
Reach planLocal Nagpur creators and family-run community pages first, then geo-targeted social to the same neighbourhoods, then site-office walk-ins.
Earned mediaThe recreated photos are the content, so each family that posts becomes a distribution channel without paid support.
RetentionAfter purchase each family takes a first-night photo, and that photo is added to the memory wall as the next chapter.
Go to marketSeed with ten families, open to every visitor, then run it as the standing hook for each new tower launch.
Physical objectA pencil-mark height chart or Polaroid frame is hand-delivered to shortlisted families so the idea arrives as something they can hold.
One call to actionBook a site visit and bring your photo.
Goal and timelineA first 90-day pilot with ten families, with targets for tags and visits set before launch.
The fear behind the idea

Every buyer quietly fears leaving their memories behind.

We answer that fear first, because a family that feels safe about its memories is a family that is ready to say yes.

The mechanic

Recreate One Memory.

1

Dig it out

The family finds one old photo from the drawer.

2

Step in

They stand in the same pose in the new home.

3

Side by side

Then and now sit together in one frame.

4

Post it

They share it with #WallsThatRaisedUs.

Phase 1

Seed

Ten Nagpur families recreate their photos and a few local creators join them.

Phase 2

Invite

Every visitor can take part, and a memory wall grows inside the site office.

Phase 3

Move in

Each new family takes a first-night photo and the wall gets its first pencil mark.

Marketing framework · method · category

A participation campaign, built on a Paid, Owned and Earned media mix.

This idea lives in the category of participation and user-generated marketing, with outdoor as the amplifier. Families make the content, the hoarding shows it, and the site visit turns it into intent.

CategoryParticipation and UGC marketing

Families create the memory content. Outdoor and local press amplify it.

FrameworkPaid, Owned, Earned (POE)

Paid hoardings, owned site visits and photo wall, earned family stories and local press.

MethodSeed, Participate, Amplify, Convert

Ten families first, then open entries, then the hoarding rotation, then the visit.

1Seed2Participate3Amplify4Convert
Category, framework and method named, so the idea can be judged on its structure too.
Goal shape
Week 1Week 5Week 12more photos, more visits
Illustrative shape of the goal, not data: posts and site visits are meant to rise together. Targets are set at launch.
Research and measurement plan

How we will know it worked.

MetricHow it is measuredBaselineTargetSource
Memories posted with the tagTag count and manual reviewZero at launchSet at launchSocial platforms
Site-office visits from the campaignVisitor register with a source questionProject's own visit log2 to 3 times (projected)Sales team
Homes bookedBooking recordsProject's own baselineAbout 5 homes to break even (projected)Sales team
Families who say it feels like homeOne-question exit surveyNot yet measuredSet at launchSite office

Before launch we would also run a short round of interviews with Nagpur families who recently moved, to test the observation that old photos and pencil-mark walls carry real emotional weight. Every figure above stays a projection until the project's own data replaces it.

Same city, new walls
An empty wall is a blank page.Before the first photo goes up
07 Analytics, planned

Comms, brand and business goals.

Comms
tbd

The number of memories families post with the tag.

Target set at launch
Brand
tbd

The share of families who say the project feels like home.

Target set at launch
Business
2-3x

Site-office visits compared with today.

Projected, not a result
Photographs are real, free-licensed images from Wikimedia Commons, chosen to set the scene. They do not show the client or its project. Nagpur Railway Station at night (Ashish Agrawal/Pranav Chaturvedi/Jaimin Gorasia, CC BY-SA 4.0) · India - Sights and Culture - 024 - Epitome of painted public (McKay Savage from London, UK, CC BY 2.0) · An Indian House during Diwali (Samiran Borgohain, CC BY-SA 4.0) · Apartments complex decorated during Diwali (Le Priyavrat, CC BY-SA 4.0) · India - Walls - P James Magic Show Ad (4010474653) (McKay Savage from London, UK, CC BY 2.0)

Rooted in memories.
Ready for what's next.

Concept and strategy by Diya Nathwani

Concept page. All figures are projected targets, not results.