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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Tag Archives: grand challenges
Grand Challenges Innovations at Design Public
The first day at the Design Public Conclave last week was dedicated to brainstorming new cross-sectoral engagement models to promote innovation in four challenge areas – post-grid energy, equitable water and sanitation, smarter cities and nimble agriculture. Participants split up … Continue reading
On Price-Pointing and Jugaad Innovation
Seema Singh at Forbes writes about innovations that enable Profit from Scarcity, touting the benefits of Jugaad and Frugal Innovation. Writing about the newly released Jugaad Innovation by authors Navi Radjou, Simone Ahuja and Jaideep Prabhu, Singh talks about their … Continue reading
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Tagged frugality, grand challenges, India, ingenuity, innovation, Jugaad Innovation, Tata Nano
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Designing for Unfamiliar Contexts
Ram Mohan Mishra, Principal Secretary of the Government of Meghalaya, was very intrigued by the phrase “Designing for Unfamiliar Contexts,†which came up in a recent meeting where we talked about how our approach to innovation can benefit the developmental … Continue reading
The Journey Towards Grand Challenges Innovation
I tumbled into Holland and on to a train racing towards Delft, that legendary source of Dutch Delft Blue ceramics, and home to the Technical University of Delft, whose Industrial Design faculty is now housed in an enormous hanger-like building … Continue reading
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Tagged grand challenges, healthcare, innovation, sanitation, Technical University Delft
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Breakout Sessions at the Design Public Conclave
The structure of the Design Public Conclave has always included a morning full of panel discussions which are then followed by an afternoon of breakout sessions. Participants split up into smaller groups and discuss a specific problem from an innovation … Continue reading
Where Should New Businesses Start?
Aditya Mishra is the founder of Headstart Foundation, a non-profit group focused on supporting and encouraging entrepreneurship. It has chapters in all major Indian cities, where it runs Start-Up Saturdays, meet-ups where people share stories of start-ups, and share links, … Continue reading
Design Public III: Why We Focus on Trust, Participation and Innovation
Design Public began as a conversation around the question of how design thinking and innovation can be used by organizations and actors outside the private sector, specifically government organizations and social sector agencies. As we enter this third edition of … Continue reading
Design!publiC Panel Discussion 5: Planning and Policy for Innovation
18:26 Reto: I feel that there is a need for an international consensus and forum for innovation so that we can learn from each other. 18:19 Dilini: Most countries talk about GDP, but in Bhutan the premise of government is … Continue reading
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Tagged Anant Shah, BMGF, CLPR, Dalberg, Design Public Conclave, Dilini Wijeweera, FinNode, Gaurav Gupta, grand challenges, Harsh Shrivastava, Hivos Foundation, innovation, Jamuna Ramakrishna, LIRNEasia, National Planning Commission, Planning, Policy, Riku Mäkelä, Sudhir Krishnaswamy
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Interested in Design Research?
We have an opportunity for you. As part of the Design!Public conclave, the Center for Knowledge Societies (CKS) is organising field experiences in and around Bangalore on the 11th and 12th of October. We are looking for intelligent, talented, or … Continue reading
A Parable on Innovation
By Aditya Dev Sood You are tasked with finding ways to design new kind of toilets, ones which will actually be used by those who have no experience using them. The challenge is complex because it is underdefined. Do you … Continue reading
