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Recent Comments- Comment on How the System is Killing a Future Green Designer by NamrataWhen I was in Srishti we had several professors who occupied this space of bio-designer/artists, and I remember several inspired students who took their courses. I don't know whether they still run, but it seemed at the time there was building momentum. I don't know much about other colleges that might offer similar opportunities, but my recent tim […]Namrata
- Comment on Learning by Doing, A Definition of Innovation by Ben BunceHello Aditya, I very much enjoyed your ideas towards innovation. I have been reading about the education system in India and find it very concerning. I believe young children all over the world deserve the best possible start to life and think we can make a change by helping our education staff through support and resources. Check out TESIndia ( www.tesindia […]Ben Bunce
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Do you eat, sleep, and breathe trends? We are looking for you!
CKS is looking for enthusiastic people, who can transverse across disciplines, for a trends research project. As a part of this project you would be involved in extensive social, media, and trends research, creating wonderful visual translations, or devising color ranges that … Continue reading
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Tagged colour, colournext, design, jobs, social trends, trend forecasting, visual culture, visual research
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To Design Together: Enhance
Traditional approaches to the design of the simple things in our everyday life — ear-rings, clothes, shoes, furniture, homes — often involve a designer staring a a page in a notebook, drawing the object again and again till it … Continue reading
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Tagged Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation, creativity, design, education, enhance
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On Participation in Public Spaces
Our Pecha Kucha Night next week focuses on Public Spaces and Voices, in light of the events of not only the last month, but also because of the kinds of developments we’ve been seeing Delhi for the last few years. … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Hazare, design, flash mobs, innovation, Pecha Kucha Night, protest, trust, urban spaces
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A Conversation on Integrating Design and Innovation
Why are organizations across sectors all over the world trying so hard to innovate? Why are design skills so essential to innovation? Should design and innovation be an underlying paradigm within all organizations? Is design just a profession or is … Continue reading
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Tagged design, Hemant Sahal, innovation, organizations, personal life
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Speakers at the next Pecha Kucha Night
Pecha Kucha #15 in Delhi, themed, ‘Our Spaces, Our Voices‘, is approaching ever closer, and we’re just over a week away from the event. This makes it a perfect time to begin introducing the excellent group of speakers we’ve lined … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, design, gender, Jagori, Our Spaces Our Voices, Pecha Kucha Night, public safety, Red Earth, Sarai, UN, urban spaces
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Pecha Kucha 2013: Our Spaces, Our Voices
As you’ve probably seen, we’re planning another edition of the Pecha Kucha night this month, which will be held at the grounds of the Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation on the 31st. This Pecha Kucha Night, inspired by the … Continue reading
Social Innovation by Design
via @Guardian We often talk about the need to integrate design principles, design thinking, and of course, designers, when we talk about social innovation. This may not be essential nor always necessary, but there is a definite role for the … Continue reading
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Tagged breast cancer, condom wrapper, design, one world futbol, social innovation
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What Design Can Do for Education
Just came across an interview with designer Emily Pilloton, who believes that education not only enriches the mind but the heart as well. To take this idea forward, Pilloton and her partner Matthew Miller started Studio H, a program to … Continue reading
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Tagged Adianta, design, education, innovation, Studio H, ted
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Design and Other Ways of Knowing and Doing Things
Yesterday, I spent the morning at the Ambedkar University of Delhi (AUD), a somewhat hidden gem of a university, tucked away around the corner from Kashmere Gate on the edge of the old city of Shahjahanabad. Its small campus boasts … Continue reading
