What is Design Public?
Design Public is a series of conversations about design and innovation in the public interest.This blog is curated by the Center for Knowledge Societies, the innovation consulting firm that guides the establishment of the Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation.
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Category Archives: Interesting Ideas
Design Research: Creating Collaborative Experiences
The scale of ‘Under 5 Mortality’ (U5M) in Bihar is huge: 58 deaths for every 1000 live births, nearly 45 percent of all under five children are underweight and 49 percent of them are stunted. The disturbing figures of U5M … Continue reading
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Changing Bihar – ‘Nothing Changes, if Nothing Changes’
In a recent trip to Samastipur in Bihar, I came across a line of rickety, roadside stalls illegally downloading and selling latest Hollywood movies in HD – that too, at a nominal price of Rs. 10. Villages where electricity is … Continue reading
Co-Creating with the Government
For an ‘Innovation Lab’ to sustain, it is necessary for the Lab to function in an environment that welcomes innovation and shuns traditional thinking. The Bihar Innovation Lab has not only innovated for Public Health, but also carefully crafted an ecosystem … Continue reading
Hacking the Challenge of Safe Drinking Water
On Thursday the 9th of April, as part of the Sankalp Forum, Karmany organised a Social Design Jam, aimed at simulating a systems innovation approach to solving social issues. As facilitator of the Jam, they invited Aditya Dev Sood from … Continue reading
Labour Initiation: First Steps.
The Labour Progression Tool, or Partograph, Team initiated the Bihar Innovation Lab’s fourth project by organizing one of its flagship collaborative working sessions in Patna on the 1st of April, 2015. The half-day consultation looked to gain insight and expert … Continue reading
A Data Democracy Index?
One of the many outcomes of the Pulse Lab Jakarta event on Data Innovation for Policy Makers this past week was the concept of a Data Democracy Index. The idea is that different countries around the world use public data … Continue reading
Your Weekly Tesseract
Warning: This post makes gratuitous use of pop cultural imagery that might ruin your weekend fun at the movie Interstellar. If only we could recast the past. If only we could shape the future. This is the stuff of Science Fiction, but … Continue reading
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A breakfast session with Madeleine Gabriel: Scale Up Social Innovations
The Adianta School extends its heartiest welcome to Madeleine Gabriel – Principal Researcher at NESTA (UK’s nodal agency for innovation) and Kirsten Bound, who are here to share their insights on “How Social Innovations could Scale?” Any social entrepreneur would love to be part of a massive societal change and … Continue reading
From Project Love Hotel to Startup Tunnel: Journey of the Launchpad to Startups
Dreams and ideas are two different worlds altogether. You might not even realize that you’ve been bitten by the bug. I understood this when one fine November morning, my CEO, Aditya Dev Sood, came to me and asked to do … Continue reading
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The Nalanda Revival
Knowledge has always been about revival, creation, expansion, sharing and so much more. It could loosely follow the tenets of the Laws of conservation of Mass and Energy, in that it cannot be created nor destroyed, but simply shifts from … Continue reading
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