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: MP Ranjan
The State of the Conversation around Innovation in India
This first panel at the Design Public Conclave will address the current discourse of innovation in India, and set the tone for the rest of the day by identifying some of the key takeaways about how the innovation conversation now … Continue reading
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Tagged designpublic, innovation, Jonathan Bill, Mahindra Group, MP Ranjan, Panel 1, Vikas Bajaj, Vish Palekar, world bank
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“From Bauhaus to Bollywood”: A Response
By M.P. Ranjan This is a guest blogpost by M.P. Ranjan, former Professor of Design at the National Institute for Design in Ahmedabad, and current Design Thinker and Writer, author of the Design for India blog. Professor Ranjan has been … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics, Bauhaus, design, design public, HfG Ulm, innovation, luxury, MP Ranjan, NID, public good
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From Bauhaus to Bollywood
I spent Sunday morning at the Barbican, a curious London cultural institution that dates from the 1970s. Its heavy and brutalist architecture could have been featured in A Clockwork Orange. The Barbican was hosting a widely acclaimed exhibition on … Continue reading
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Tagged Aishwarya Rai, Barbican, Bauhaus, beuty, Bollywood, clockwork orange, entrepreneurship, MP Ranjan, visual culture
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Panel 4: What Do We Need to Do To Build an Innovation Society?
It has become a tradition at various editions of Design Public for us to use the final session of the day to reflect on the many idea that have come out in various panels and breakout sessions and to ask … Continue reading
ColourNext Themes: Crystal
‘Crystal’ was the final theme discussed at ColourNext Dialogues, led by a panel of M.P. Ranjan and Shimul Javeri Kadri. Shimul described the theme as ‘beautiful, elegant, and relevant,’ a theme that necessitates reflection, a requestioning of form, space and … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian Paints, CKS, ColourNext 2012, ColourNext Dialogues, complex, Crystal, curation, design, elegance, MP Ranjan, nuance, Shimul Kadri, simplicity
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