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: New Delhi
Videos from Pecha Kucha #15: Our Spaces, Our Voices
For all those of you who weren’t able to join us at the last Pecha Kucha Night, and for all those who’d like to relive the amazing presentations we experienced that night, here are videos of all the presentations. Thank … Continue reading
A Love Letter to Kinshasa
By Blessing Okorougo Before arriving to New Delhi to assist the development of an ambitious pilot training programme to empower women of rural Rajasthan on water conservation and climate change, I lived and worked in the DRC for the past … Continue reading
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Tagged American Center, Blessing Okorougo, Congo, DRC, New Delhi, Nshole, Pecha Kucha Night
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A Pecha Kucha Night that celebrates the Sari
We’re pleased to announce that CKS, in association with CMYK bookstore, is organizing a Pecha Kucha Night in Delhi around the theme of the Sari. We will bring six speakers whose presentation will delve into a range of aspects of … Continue reading
Posted in Design Challenges, Interesting Ideas
Tagged design, modernity, New Delhi, Pecha Kucha Night, Sari, tradition
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Planning begins for the twelfth Pecha Kucha Night in Delhi
We’re super stoked to announce that planning for the twelfth edition of Pecha Kucha Night in New Delhi has begun! Like last time, the event is being planned in collaboration with the American Center, and will be held at their … Continue reading
Are Indian Cities Hospitable?
I read an excellent article by Charles Leadbeater on Hospitable Cities, written for the European open city project in Guimaraes, Portugal. Leadbeater talks about the many dualisms that exist in cities, how they tend to bring out the best and … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, hospitable cities, innovvation, New Delhi, Oregon, Portland, smarter cities
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ColourNext Dialogues Delhi: Small Joys
At ColourNext Dialogues in Delhi, Small Joys was the first installation with which the participants interacted. The speakers, fashion designer Nida Mahmood and gallery owner Nidhi Jyoti Jain, were initially struck by the idea of memory and nostalgia. The installation … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian Paints, CKS, ColourNext 2012, Colournext Delhi, ColourNext Dialogues 2012, New Delhi, Small Joys
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Designing Communities for Social Sustainability
Population growth is going to have profound impacts on politics, economics, and society in the coming decades, one issue being the basic question: Where are we going to put these people? “UN surveys indicate that…by 2030 over two billion people … Continue reading
