The UnBox Festival The UnBox Festival celebrates interdisciplinary processes and experiences that shape contemporary thought and action. The UnBox Festival is a response to the emergence of a new subculture: one that straddles the spirit of innovation, is fostered by an enterprising spirit, and invites the engagement of all senses. UnBox manifests itself as a blend of different events—including a conference, workshops, exhibitions and performances— designed in sync with one another, to stimulate thought, debate and action.
Fellowships
The UnBox Fellowships were conceived to initiate interdisciplinary collaborations for innovation, by bringing together an accomplished and multi-disciplinary group to ideate on opportunities while immersed in real-life contexts across the country. In its second edition, the UnBox Fellowships have partnered with domain experts from varied disciplines to host Fellowship modules at the intersections of design, development, technology and entrepreneurship, to facilitate thoughtful, unique and intense interactions.
The UnBo
Conference
The UnBox Conference brings together leading voices from varied domains catalyzing inspiration, debate and reflection. The UnBox Conference on February 3rd and 4th focuses attention on interdisciplinary innovations and thought processes across the domains of Development, Design, Business, Identity, Reform, Culture & Technology, in an immersive & multi-sensorial format. Experts and emerging innovators would debate, discuss, present and perform their own perspectives & work, to inspire and provoke participants to re-imagine their own work and explore new practices. Workshops anchored by various experts would also give participants a chance to build skills and intimately engage in specific areas of interest.
Workshops
The UnBox workshops are an opportunity for participants to get a more intimate dive into a specific area of interest. The workshops would focus on skill-building, creating solutions or in-depth discussions with anchors who are experts in fields as varied as sustainability, reform, architecture, design & food.
BeatRepeat
BeatRepeat is a partner festival of the UnBox festival, which is the first festival of its kind in India focusing on interdisciplinary processes and experiences. With its debut in February 2011, BeatRepeat 2011 brought together writers, artists, dancers and VJs for an evening during the UnBox Festival. The 2nd edition in 2012 expands the scope of BeatRepeat to an all day workshop & conference for the emerging literature ecosystem in India (open to curated participants) and an evening of interdisciplinary performances (open to the public) at The British Council on 03 February 2012.
EyeMyth
EyeMyth is a festival of moving images that visualize and celebrate music. The approach behind EyeMyth is to showcase a diversity of techniques in the creation of engaging audiovisual content. The festival will feature works by musicians, film makers and media artists—both established and emerging—from around the world. EyeMyth is accompanied by live cinema performances, workshops and city-wide screenings that demonstrate the crossing over of the senses of sight and sound.
ox Festival FoodLab
FoodLab at the UnBox Festival aims at creating voyages that challenge the way one experiences and consumes food. It aims to curate a special social space, which inspires ideas of discovery and exploration to the act of consuming and thinking about food. At UnBox Festival 2012, it will be curating gastronomic voyages that progress the experience of consuming food. FoodLab is curated by an exciting group of food aficionados and enthusiasts from around the world.
BlowUp
BlowUp is an initiative by the Blindboys to take art away from the ivory towers of galleries and museums and present it to the man on the street. It aims to provide a platform for photography enthusiasts at all levels of experience and expertise to present their work to a wider audience. After having been installed in Bengaluru, New Delhi, Mumbai, Paris, Newcastle and Siem Reap, BlowUP comes back to Delhi. BlowUp’s open street exhibition will take place on 5th February in Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi. This edition of BlowUp will feature photographs from across the world.
Technodrome
Envisioned as an electronic arts festival within a cultural framework, the festival offers a platform for emerging electronic art forms in India such as VJing, digital art, new media and interdisciplinary performances. With electronic music as the backbone of the series, the programming for each festival episode pulls in forerunners from the global music and arts scene, and pitches them with leading Indian artists and performers. Each episode is also an experiment with the creation of unique spaces for electronic arts working with visual artists, designers and architects.
Citywide Events UnBox citywide will bring performances, exhibitions, walks and workshops throughout the city, and will be open to all.
Programme Pre UnBox Fellowships Jan & Feb 2012
2nd Feb 2012 3rd Feb 2012
Super Everything*
6º Project
Conference 08.30–16.00 hrs.
Workshops 16.00 hrs. onwards
»» Marije Vogelzang »» Richard van der Laken & Pepijn Zurburg »» Aditi Ranjan »» Jan Hendzel & Oscar Hunt
To Scale Or Not to Scale »» Ramsey Ford
Live cinema performance by the Light Surgeons From 18.30–21.30 hrs. at The British Council, New Delhi. For invited guests, conference registrants and pre-registered guests only.
Media & Activism »» Stalin K »» Sonali Khan
Brands–Experience & Enterprise »» Gerry Hopkinson »» V Sunil »» Dr. Venki Padmanabhan Re-Invigorating Crafts »» Adarsh Kumar »» MP Ranjan »» Aditi Ranjan »» Christine Facella
Showcase of BlowUp Fellowship From 2nd–5th Feb, 10.00–20.00 hrs. at The Experimental Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. Public event.
Experiments in Visual Creation »» Sigma6 Guerrilla Gorilla »» Richard van der Laken & Pepijn Zurburg Food Memory »» Marije Vogelzang
4th Feb 2012
App Slam »» Hannah Regier & Guarav Bhushan A Human-centered Approach to Marketing »» Gerry Hopkinson
At The British Council, New Delhi. For Conference registrants only.
Conference 09.30–16.00 hrs.
Workshops 16.00 hrs. onwards
»» Merel Snel & Loes Verstappen »» Thorsten Kiefer »» Daniel Gross & Joris Maltha
Design Research for Service Innovation »» Dr. Geke van Dijk
Notion of a Nation »» Satyanand Nirupam »» Anirban Mukherjee »» Neha Kirpal »» Indrajit Hazra
Post UnBox
Occupy Media »» Stalin K
At The British Council, New Delhi. For Conference registrants only.
Habitat & Communiy »» Hedwig Heinsman & Hans Vermeulen »» Erik Rietveld & Flora Lysen »» Amardeep Behl »» Indy Johar
5th Feb 2012
UpCycle »» Jan Hendzel & Oscar Hunt
Curating the New Culture »» Parmesh Shahani »» Archana Prasad »» Richard van der Laken & Pepijn Zurburg FutureForms »» Mayank Mansingh Kaul »» Venky Goteti »» Abhishek Hegde »» Nitesh Mohanty »» Somnath Ray »» Aman Singh
Let It Go »» Ashwath Bhatt Make Sense Hold Up »» Daniel Hires
Designing Institutions »» Indy Johar New Forms of Story Telling »» The Light Surgeons LATCH—Five Ways to Organise Information »» Daniel Gross & Joris Maltha
Demystifying Sustainable Habitats »» Gaurav Shorey
At The British Council, New Delhi. For conference registrants only.
At The British Council, New Delhi. For conference registrants only.
Open Studios
Aesthetics of Cultural Change
10.00-15.00 hrs. at the Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi. Public event.
10.00-17.00 hrs. Only for registered participants for the event.
Bharat Darshan
From 1st–10th Feb, at Futurebrands, Sainik Farms, New Delhi. Time 10.00–17.00 hrs. Sessions 17.30–19.30 hrs.
Rising—Design & Media for Activism UnBox Fellowship 2012 Showcase The Great Indian Clearance Sale, Video Volunteers, Breakthrough and Gorilla From 2nd–7th Feb, 09.00–19.00 hrs. at The Queen’s Gallery, The British Council, New Delhi. Public event.
A glimpse into the experiences of the Fellowship anchors & fellows. From 2nd–7th Feb, 09.00–19.00 hrs. at The Queen’s Gallery, The British Council, New Delhi. Public event.
Beat Repeat
Food Labyrinth Technodrome
Morning Session 10.00–12.00 hrs. For registered workshop participants. »» Arpita Das »» Clyde D’Souza
19.00-23.00 hrs. At Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi.
Reactable Paranoia Tour »» Oliver Huntemann Reactable Set & Nishant 22.00 hrs. onwards at Canvas, Mumbai.
Antariksha Sanchar
Technodrome
Evening Session 18.45–20.15 hrs. Public Event. »» Clyde D’Souza »» Veena Venugopal & VJ Thiruda »» Samrat »» Astrid Reza & Abmi Handayani »» B.L.O.T. »» The New Delhi Guitar Quartret
At The British Council, New Delhi.
EyeMyth Featuring Films by »» Andrew Sorensen »» Zeitguised »» Beeple »» Candas Sisman »» Murat Pak »» Sameer Kulavoor »» The Light Surgeons »» Semiconductor »» Tom Lindsay »» Moka »» Brian O’ Reilly »» Eness
Collaborating Artists »» Guru Jayalakshmi Eshwar »» B.L.O.T. »» Sattyananda »» Celldsgn »» Anagram
18.45 hrs. onwards At The British Council, New Delhi. Public event.
20.00-23.30 hrs. At Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi. For invited guests, conference registrants and pre-registered guests only.
Food Walk
BlowUp
10.00-15.00 hrs. at the Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi. Public event.
15.00 hrs. onwards at the Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi. Public event.
EyeMyth On 10th Feb 2012 21.00 hrs. onwards At Edward Talkies, Mumbai.
On 12th Feb 2012 21.00 hrs. onwards At CounterCulture, Bengaluru.
Workshop »» Technodrome Masterclass 18.00 hrs. onwards at Sura Vie, New Delhi. For registered participants only. Reactable Paranoia Tour »» Oliver Huntemann Reactable Set & B.L.O.T. 22.00 hrs. onwards at Sura Vie, New Delhi.
Technodrome Technodrome Sunset Party »» Arjun Vagale + Gaurav Malaker 16.00 hrs. onwards at Shroom, New Delhi.
Reactable Paranoia Tour »» Oliver Huntermann Reactable Set & Kohra 19.00 hrs. onwards at Stone Water Grill, Pune.
UnBox Fellowships The UnBox Fellowships provide an opportunity for chosen fellows to travel and work across a diverse selection of projects hosted in different parts of India. Anchored and led by domain experts, the eight selected projects for 2012 include: Understanding sustainable lifestyles in Auroville. »»Collaborating with craft groups in Rajasthan. »»Sourcing fashion inspirations in the local textile traditions of Kutcch (Gujarat). »»Hacking a platform for open and transparent governance. »»Creating new forms of public access to art and photography. »»Campaigning against domestic violence through use of new media. »»Using street theatre and puppetry to spread the message of safe sanitation. »»Structuring a program to improve livelihoods for children. »»
UnBox Fellowships are at various intersections of design, development, technology and entrepreneurship. They are a chance for a multidisciplinary group to collaborate, reflect and work on projects while immersed in real-life contexts. The projects are designed to inspire and inform participants about the power of interdisciplinary thought and action and give a window into the complex and challenging landscape of India. Fellows will be sharing their experiences online and through exhibitions at the UnBox Festival, providing an avenue to continue the conversations within the larger community.
BlowUp Photography and Public Access Location: Global / Virtual BlowUp is a Blindboys initiative to provide a platform for public access to photography. The fellowship ran as an open platform which invited people to register online and share their photographs on specific themes. The online platform will culminate in a public exhibition and street intervention—‘BlowUp New Delhi’, led by the photography collective Blindboys. The selected fellows have also organized the exhibition 6°, based on the idea that anything can be connected to anything. The exhibition is open at the Experimental Arts Gallery at the India Habitat Centre during the UnBox Festival. Anchor: BlindBoys www.blindboys.org Blindboys is a photo commune. It is a platform that encourages photographers to show their work in public using effective and affordable means.
Digital Activism Social Marketing & Media Activism Location: Delhi The Digital Activism fellowship offered an opportunity to work with Breakthrough, a leading activism and advocacy team, to help them craft an awareness-raising online strategy for their media campaign on domestic violence—Bell Bajao. As a highly successful media campaign, Bell Bajao needed to sustain itself as an online project that leveraged social media, marketing and design/web trends. The fellowship involved exploring how brands need to be marketed in a manner that promotes social impact and raises awareness without losing its spark. The fellows worked closely with the Breakthrough team to research and find a solution. Anchor: breakthrough breakthrough.tv Breakthrough is a global human rights organization that uses the power of media, pop culture, and community mobilization to inspire people to take bold action for dignity, equality, and justice.
Hacking for Governance Open Governance Through Technology Location: Delhi In the Hacking For Governance Fellowship, the Fellows worked with Parliamentary Research Services (PRS) & technology partner Azri Solutions to create a web platform to enable collaborative lawmaking. Over ten days, the chosen Fellows discussed and developed a working prototype of this participatory lawmaking platform to be launched during UnBox. Anchors: Parliamentary Research Services (PRS) www.prsindia.org PRS is an organization that partners with Members of Parliament, to improve the quality of legislative decision making and outcomes. Azri Solutions www.azrisolutions.com Azri Solutions was founded in 2003 with a mandate to develop flexible and efficient software applications with a renewed focus on optimizing Total Cost of Ownership. Co-Anchored by Quicksand.
Livelihoods for Children Community Livelihoods Location: Ahmedabad The Livelihoods for Children fellowship invited participants to work closely with Design Impact to study and contribute to a program run by the non-profit—Manav Sadhna. Manav Sadhna’s “Earn n Learn” educational program provides meals, education, and income for students while engaging them in the production of paper crafts. The fellowship aimed to increase the sustainability of the program, allowing more students to become involved and for their learning potential to be increased. The fellows were involved in preparing a roadmap for how design and business interventions can enable program effectiveness and sustainability. Anchor: Design impact www.d-impact.org Design Impact works with innovative organizations and the communities they serve to develop life-improving, design-led solutions.
Sustainable Fashion Fashion & Tradition
Location: Kutcch, Gujarat The Sustainable Fashion fellowship offered an opportunity to work with Cell Dsgn on their new collection for Autumn/Winter 2012 for the brand 11.11. Fellows worked in Kutcch, Gujarat reinterpreting the traditional craft of ‘Bandhini’ and combining it with stylistic elements from Japanese ‘Shibori’. The fellows explored the combination of cultural and stylistic design elements through their research across several villages in the Kutcch region. Anchor: Cell Dsgn www.11-11.in Cell Dsgn is a leading art and fashion studio based in New Delhi.
Sustainable Lifestyles Sustainable Technology & Practices Location: Delhi Auroville, an international township in South India, is a hotbed for innovations in sustainable lifestyles and life practices. Fellows interacted with experts and acquired hands-on experience in technologies around organic food & farming, sustainable building technologies, renewable energy and waste management. Long-term residents hosted open houses so that fellows could see how people have evolved small everyday solutions that are sustainable in nature. Over the course of the fellowship, fellows identified specific product ideas that they wanted to develop and take back to their own contexts. Anchors: Chintan Jani janiclays.com Chintan Jani is Director of nano-clay and organoclay startup Jani Clays and was previously a Research Fellow at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad studying innovation philosophy. Co-Anchored by Quicksand.
The Great WASH Yatra Hygiene & Sanitation Awareness Location: Delhi After having implemented a successful program in Africa, WASH United will be launching their India program in early 2012. The India program will comprise of a travelling caravan that will undertake a 60 day journey between Delhi and Mumbai with stops at multiple rural locations to help spread the WASH United message. The fellows were mandated to create a performance that can become a part of WASH United’s India program through a collaboration between traditional Indian art forms of puppeteering, dance, theatre, the popular sport of cricket & hand-washing/hygiene messaging. Anchor: WASH United www.wash-united.org WASH United is a non-profit based in Germany that seeks to promote good hand hygiene and sanitation behaviour through the power of sports, celebrity, and fun activities. Co-Anchored by Quicksand.
The Green Room Empowering Artisans through Design Location: Samode (Rajashtan) and Delhi Happy Hands Foundation led an interdisciplinary team to a craft village in Rajasthan with the goal of enabling an exchange of ideas, thoughts and traditions in order to facilitate a change in the lives of the villagers. The destination for this fellowship—Samode, is known for its rich heritage, and craft-culture. Over the years, however, the crafts have failed to grow innovatively thereby leaving the villagers in no position to keep up with the dynamic market. As part of the Green Room’s mandate to facilitate an exchange of the rural and the modern, the fellows co-created products and offered ideas and possible solutions for a sustained living and livelihoods. Anchor: Happy Hands Foundation www.happyhands.in Happy Hands Foundation strives to revive cultural traditions, art and craft forms through contemporary ways and initiatives.
EXHIBITION CURATED BY FUTUREBRANDS
Bharat Darshan
India is changing. For years now, we’ve all been hearing about a new India; an India fertile with possibilities, pregnant with opportunities, bursting with enthusiasm. We keep hearing about the phenomenal development of the metros, their amenities reaching ‘international’ standards and their success achieving unprecedented levels. Forever sensitive to social change, we at Futurebrands wondered, where does this New India leave the ‘Bharat’ we come from? How is the lesser known India reacting to these changes and what is happening there? To answer these questions, we ventured out across India; dividing ourselves in teams, accompanied only by an
eagerness to learn and an insatiable curiosity. We travelled to towns and to lesser known cities. We travelled by road, took gedi rides, and experienced the local transport. We spoke to people on the street, who led us to interesting people and places. We met the local celebrities and the ‘aam aadmi’, we saw the tourist attraction and the lesser known hubs. No matter where we went, we found a unique spirit. We saw the cities through the eyes of her people, and learnt there’s a lot more to ‘Bharat’ than we knew. We shall continue this journey, year after year in the hope of discovering new knowledge, tracking the changing New India and rediscovering the spirit of our Bharat.
Open to All DATES
1st–10th Feb 2012
TIME
10.00–17.00 hrs.
SESSIONS 17.30–19.30 hrs. VENUE Futurebrands Ltd., W4D 204/3, Sainik Farms, New Delhi TEL. 011 2654 8000
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UnBox Festival Opening
SUPER EVERY THING*
Exhibitions
feb
Rising—Design & Media for Activism UnBox Fellowships 2012—Showcase 6° Project—BlowUp Fellowship Exhibition
The UnBox Festival—Opening
Super Everything* A live cinema performance project by The Light Surgeons
Super Everything* is a new cross disciplinary performing arts project, commissioned by the British Council and created by the UK’s leading audio-visual artists The Light Surgeons in collaboration with Malaysian artists. Filmed on location across Peninsular Malaysia, this project sets out to explore the relationship between identity, ritual and place. Super Everything* weaves different documentary narratives to create a poetic audio-visual tapestry, that together form a kaleidoscopic portrait of the diverse cultural landscape of Malaysia. Juxtaposing tradition and modernity, this project seeks to discover who we are and how our complex identities are connected. Super Everything* brings together a cuttingedge collection of Malaysia’s musical and visual artists to form a unique audio-visual collaboration. The resulting musical soundscape combines traditional South East Asian instruments, western classical compositions, field
recordings and electronic synthesis, all of which are manipulated live and complemented by a stunning, immersive visual experience. Exploded across multiple projections and different media, this live cinema performance layers together stunning documentary footage and motion graphics with an original, live electronic musical score to transport its audiences on a journey through these universal themes. From our relationships with each other to our relationship with the environment, Super Everything* surveys our everyday rituals to reveal what unites and divides us. It is a journey through Malaysia’s past, to understand its present and to imagine its future. This is a project that aims to elevate its audience to contemplate our shared human story in order to reveal our collective commonality, and asks a timeless question about who we are as individuals and as a society.
TIME 18.30–21.30 hrs. VENUE The British Council, 17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110001 TEL. 011 4219 9000 Please be seated by 19.30 as entry will be closed soon after. This event is open to UnBox Conference registrants, invited guests and pre-registered guests.
Exhibition Curated By Codesign
Rising—Design & Media for Activism FEATURING Breakthrough | The Gorilla Project | Video Volunteers | The Great Indian Clearance Sale
RISING addresses the role of creative professionals in creating coherent voices of protest and reform, in response to pertinent social, ecological and political issues. Apathy to issues and events that impact our lives in big/small, direct/indirect ways, can often be attributed to lack of information access and clear, compelling communication. Creative professionals, as creators of media and interfaces, are in a unique position to inspire reaction and facilitate constructive dialogue around pertinent issues. RISING is a call to the creative community for action.
OPEN TO ALL DATES
2nd–7th Feb 2012
TIME
09.00–19.00 hrs.
VENUE The Queen’s Gallery, The British Council, 17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110001 TEL. 011 4219 9000
UnBox Fellowships 2012
Showcase A glimpse into the experiences of the Fellowship anchors & fellows
The UnBox Fellowships were conceived to initiate interdisciplinary collaborations for innovation, by bringing together an accomplished and multidisciplinary group to ideate on opportunities while immersed in real-life contexts across the country. In its second edition, UnBox Fellowships have partnered with domain experts from varied disciplines to host Fellowship modules at the intersections of design, development, technology and entrepreneurship, to facilitate thoughtful, unique and intense interactions. The UnBox Fellowships Showcase is a glimpse into the experiences of the anchors & fellows—a starting point for conversations on the potential of interdisciplinary thought and action, within the larger community.
OPEN TO ALL DATES
2nd–7th Feb 2012
TIME
09.00–19.00 hrs.
VENUE The Queen’s Gallery, The British Council, 17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110001 TEL. 011 4219 9000
Curated By blindboys
6°
BlowUp Fellowship Exhibition FEATURING Vivek M | Ishan Tankha | Kanika Sharma | Ruhani Kaur
6° is a group exhibition which will showcase the result of the BlowUp Fellowship. The fellows are open to interpret the theme of 6° as they choose and produce individual bodies of work, which will be exhibited at IHC from 2nd Feb onwards.
DATE 2nd–5th Feb 2012 TIME 10.00–20.00 hrs. VENUE Experimental Arts Gallery , India Habitat Center (IHC), Lodi Road, Lodi Colony, New Delhi. TEL. 011 2468 2001
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PANELS VOICES Brands—Experience & Enterprise | Activism & New Media | Re-Invigorating Crafts
Food Design is Shit | Made in Peckham | The Daily Gorilla | Creativity in Handmade
WORKSHOPS To Scale or Not to Scale | Food Memory | App Slam | UpCycle | Experiments in Visual Creation | A Human-centred Approach to Marketing | Guerrilla Gorilla | Occupy Media
BEAT REPEAT
feb
FOOD LABYRINTH
TECHNODROME
VOICES
VOICES
Creativity in Handmade
Food Design Is Shit
Aditi Ranjan Design Educator, National Institute of Design www.nid.edu
Marije Vogelzang Eating Design www.marijevogelzang.nl
Aditi Ranjan is a weaver, textile designer, and design teacher. She has introduced the use of culture as a design resource in education, conducted research on textile traditions of India, and designed collections for its handloom sector. Aditi is the co-editor of ‘Handmade in India’—a compendium of Indian crafts. ‘Handmade in India’ maps the crafts of India, and captures the traditions that have enriched the day-to-day lives of Indian people while being a source of livelihood for generations of craftspeople. It probes various aspects of handicrafts in India—historical, social, and cultural influences on crafts, and design and craft processes. She has also been involved with textile design education at the National Institute of Design since 1972.
“Eating design is to design from the verb ‘to eat’.” Designers who work with the subject of food are often called ‘food designers’. According to Marije Vogelzang, food is already perfectly designed by nature. Instead, her designs focus around the verb ‘to eat’. Vogelzang is inspired by the origin of food and the preparation, etiquette, history and culture around it. For this reason, she doesn’t consider herself a ‘food designer’, but as the first ‘eating designer’ in The Netherlands.
VOICES
VOICES
The Daily Gorilla
Made in Peckham
Pepijn Zurburg & Richard van der Laken De Designpolitie www.designpolitie.nl | www.thedailygorilla.nl
Jan Hendzel and Oscar Hunt Furniture Designers and Makers, Hendzel + Hunt www.hendzelandhunt.com
The Dutch graphic design studio De Designpolitie is celebrated for its fresh, deceptively simple and direct approach to graphic design, which often implements bright colour and sans-serif typeface in a lively and fun style.
Hendzel + Hunt are a vibrant, young design studio based in South London. They manufacture and design bespoke cabinets and furniture as well as producing their own line of products— the MADE IN PECKHAM range. The range is designed and built using reclaimed materials— all from the local area, maintaining Hendzel + Hunt’s ethos to create beautiful objects whilst keeping sustainability in mind.
Gorilla is a visual column that comments on current affairs through words and images.In its execution it is a mini poster on topics like the elections in the US, civil rights in China or the financial crisis in Europe. Gorilla is published every week in the magazine De Groene Amsterdammer, the Dutch Greenpeace magazine and on thedailygorilla.com. Because of the limited amount of time there is between developing and publishing a Gorilla, simple but effective means are used. It is a combination of text and image, always very graphic, and often takes cues from elements in existing visual language like logos and icons.
Jan Hendzel is a trained engineer pattern maker who has a zeal for materials, design and manufacturing techniques. Oscar Hunt is a trained joiner and a passionate designer. He is interested in both traditional and interactive furniture design.
PANEL
Activism & New Media Does the new democratic form of media, make it a more relevant instrument for reform? There hasn’t been a time in human civilization, until now, when media has been more democratic in its production, consumption and access. As a consequence, it has served many causes—ranging from self-gratification on one end to civilization movements & upheavals on the other; or varying between the highly disparate goals of responsible journalism and engineered propaganda. The dialogue on “Activism & New Media” seeks to discuss media as a voice of reform—forged, as it were, by the power of “social”. The dialogue will contrast two approaches to the use of media towards this cause—one that seeks to empower the community to give voice to their own cause (Video Volunteers) and the other that uses the established structures of media to bring about reform (Breakthrough). With two leading practitioners representing a highly successful and awarded body of work, the dialogue will throw light on how they have used media in their own contexts and how the approaches differ or complement each other.
Stalin K Documentary Filmmaker, Video Volunteers www.videovolunteers.org
SONALI KHAN Country Director, Breakthrough breakthrough.tv
Stalin K. is a media trainer, documentary filmmaker and human rights activist from Gujarat, India. Stalin has directed 15 documentaries and has won several international awards for his films. As an activist, he has been deeply involved in the relief efforts of the 2002 Gujarat riots, and of the Kutcch earthquake of 2001, during which time he helped to create a community radio program that was instrumental in delivering information to the victims. Following this, he was also the Convener of the Community Radio Forum-India until 2009 and was part of the core group that drafted the legislation that made community radio legal in India.
Ms. Sonali Khan has an M.phil in Political Philosophy from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She is the Country Director for Breakthrough – India. She has conceived and led Breakthrough India’s campaigns including the multi-award winning Bell Bajao! Campaign against domestic violence. Breakthrough is a global human rights organization that uses the power of media and pop culture to mobilize individuals, communities and governments to take bold action for dignity, equality and justice.
His film work on the issue of untouchability has helped bring international attention to Dalit issues, most notably his 1996 film ‘Lesser Humans’ on manual scavenging. His feature-length 2007 film ‘India Untouched’ is a winner at the Mumbai International Film Festival.
Through initiatives in India and the United States, Breakthrough addresses critical global issues including violence against women, sexuality and HIV/AIDS, racial justice, and immigrant rights. Ms. Khan was previously heading the media and communication department of Breakthrough,India. Prior to that, she has been a business journalist for over 10 years with Television 18 and went on to create programmes for channels like the BBC World and Star Plus, Delhi Doordarshan and CNBC. She has also made documentaries on Indian art and craft.
PANEL
Brands—Experience & Enterprise
In a crowded and heavily-branded landscape, how can we create meaningful experiences that are unique? In a marketplace that is abuzz with brand noise, there is as much choice as there is apathy to the noise on the part of the end-consumer. Approaches to branding are moving closer to the end-consumer as the central pivot, but business and brand-
ing enterprises continue to struggle to create a unique experience from their understanding of users. While brands acquire coherence, consistency and clarity; many fail to create a differentiated conversation with their users. This panel brings on stage three
distinct voices from business and creative enterprises. Collectively, they bring reflection and questions on the creation of strong, differentiated brands through innovation in experience and enterprise.
Gerry Hopkinson Co-founder, Unity hellounity.com
V Sunil Executive Creative Director, W+K Delhi Wkdelhiblog.com
Dr. Venki Padmanabhan C.E.O, Royal Enfield www.royalenfield.com
Unity is a London based creative agency with a humanist agenda. The agency has an interdisciplinary approach weaving social psychology, experiential marketing, design, PR, social media and brand content into integrated campaigns for clients like Absolut, Adidas, The British Council, GlaxoSmithKline and Save the Children.
During his career, Sunil has held key positions in India’s foremost advertising agencies including Ogilvy, Contract and McCann Erickson. In 2004, Sunil founded ‘A’, which went on to become India’s most successful independent agency, before merging operations with Wieden+Kennedy in 2007. Apart from creating iconic campaigns such as the global ‘Incredible India’ initiative, Sunil has also developed some of India’s most exciting new brands, including IndiGo, India’s largest low-fare carrier. Sunil is also the creative director of several editorial projects— theindiatube.com, Motherland magazine and W+K Exp, the art gallery of Wieden+Kennedy.
Dr. Venki Padmanabhan is the C.E.O. of Royal Enfield, the legendary motorcycle manufacturing company from England, now based entirely out of Chennai, India. Dr. Padmanabhan has worked for the majority of his career resurrecting fabled brands that had lost their way. His first major success came when he worked to integrate lean manufacturing into the processes of GM’s Buick City assembly plant assembling Buick Park Avenues and Pontiac Bonnevilles. He was part of the team that brought the Cadillac brand back to its former glory with the release of the Cadillas CTS, SRX & STS over 2000–2004. He has also worked with Daimler-Chrysler in U.S.A and Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart, Germany to integrate Lean Manufacturing into their processes.
PANEL
Re-Invigorating Crafts Is it enough to limit work to crafts or does there need to be a larger perspective to interventions within cultural industries? Though India has had a thriving tradition of crafts of various forms across the country, the past couple of decades have seen immense flux and uncertainty resulting in the loss of valued craft heritage. However various interventions have had varying degrees of success in empowering craftspeople and finding newer & more relevant places for crafts in a changing India. The panel will reflect upon their own work in training, documentation as well as market access and seek to identify key gaps and limitations in current approaches. The discussion will be rooted in the deep experience that each of the panelists come from, including their own failures, making it more vibrant, authentic & honest.
Adarsh Kumar Social Entrepreneur, AIACA www.aiacaonline.org
M P Ranjan Design Thinker & Author www.designforindia.com
Adarsh Kumar is a post-graduate from Harvard University and has worked at the World Bank, the Ford Foundation and Urmul Marusthali Bunkar Vikas Samiti (UMBVS), a handloom weaver’s society located in Phalodi, Rajasthan. Adarsh works on a range of initiatives promoting livelihood options for the poor, ranging from organizing producers at the village level to exploring research-led policy solutions at the national level. He is the founder of The All India Artisans and Craftworkers Welfare Association (AIACA) and served as the Executive Director for 6 years.
M P Ranjan is a design thinker with 40 years of experience in design education and practice. He helped visualize and set up two new design schools in India, one for the crafts sector and the other for the bamboo sector. His teaching at NID extended from design theory to inclusive design action and from rural employment to usability of information technology applications and services.
Aditi Ranjan Design Educator, National Institute of Design www.nid.edu Aditi Ranjan is a weaver, textile designer, and design teacher. She has introduced the use of culture as a design resource in education, conducted research on textile traditions of India, and designed collections for its handloom sector. Aditi is the co-editor of ‘Handmade in India’—a compendium of Indian crafts. ‘Handmade in India’ maps the crafts of India, and captures the traditions that have enriched the day-to-day lives of Indian people while being a source of livelihood for generations of craftspeople. It probes various aspects of handicrafts in India—historical, social, and cultural influences on crafts, and design and craft processes. She has also been involved with textile design education at the National Institute of Design since 1972.
Christine Facella Founder, Beetle & Flor www.beetleandflor.com Christine founded the design studio Beetle & Flor in 2007 with the aim to use design as a tool to enhance economic opportunities for artisans in disadvantaged communities. Her strategy is brand building, with the long-term goal of incorporating craft techniques and partnering with NGO’s to create unique goods that combine the rich culture of crafts with good design. Since it’s founding, B&F has also provided lowcost design services to artisan coalitions which have been made possible by funding from B&F’s own collection of ceramic-wares, handmade by herself and her team in their studio in Brooklyn.
He writes a blog called “Design for India” on ideas for the spread of design in all sectors of the economy. He is on the Governing Council of the IICD, Jaipur and lives and works from Ahmedabad in India. He has been acknowledged by peers as one of the international thought leaders in Design Thinking today.
WORKSHOPS For conference participants only
To Scale or Not to Scale
Maximum Number of Participants 24 Funding for social impact projects has shifted strongly in the direction of scalable solutions. This has pressured organizations to develop programs that can reach a minimum of a million people, if not many more. How does a focus on scale effect the development of solutions and their ability to be financially, environmentally and socially sustainable? wThis would be an interactive workshop to creatively explore and discuss these relationships. ANCHOR: Ramsey Ford Co-founder, Design Impact. www.d-impact.org Design Impact is a non-profit organization that partners professional designers with community organizations. These designers work on-site with innovative organizations and the communities they serve to design and implement life-improving solutions. Before founding Design Impact, Ramsey focused his Masters thesis on “Design and Empowerment: Learning from Community Organizing”. Through numerous workshops, published articles, and speaking engagements, Ramsey has helped to further the conversation on inclusive design in the social sector.
Experiments in Visual Creation
Maximum Number of Participants 10–15 This workshop will focus on the work Sigma Six does on image mapping on different surfaces. They will begin with a brief presentation of the history of their work, followed by a demonstration of the tools they use. These presentations will lead into a short introduction to video mapping, which will be an open interactive session with the audience. ANCHOR: Sigma6 www.sigma6.ch Sigma6 is a Geneva based company that experiments in the fields of visual creation. They make music videos and custom experimental installations. Bringing together a broad spectrum of techniques (graphic design, multimedia, pho-
tography, video etc.), Sigma6 has been working with visual performances since 2006. Their forays into visual experimentation led them to rethink the use of traditional tools of projection. Replacing classic screens with differently shaped and angled walls,mosquito nets, monuments or even smoke, they have been able to use the projector for much more than its initial function of image projection.
Guerrilla Gorilla
Maximum Number of Participants 15 Gorilla is a weekly visual column that comments on current affairs through words and images. A Gorilla is a combination of text and image, always very graphic, and often inspired by existing visual language (logos, icons and so on). For the UnBox Festival, the founders of the Gorilla project—Richard van der Laken & Pepijn Zurburg, are leading a workshop to explore creation of visual voices for protest. Participants will select pertinent issues from current news that impacts their life, and create strong visual messages that express their views. Within limited time and resources, participants will explore ways of creating clear and impactful social communication. ANCHORS: Richard van der Laken & Pepijn Zurburg The Gorilla Project www.thedailygorilla.nl Gorilla is a visual column that comments on current affairs through words and images. In its execution it is a mini poster on topics like the elections in the US, civil rights in China or the financial crisis in Europe. Gorilla is published every week in De Groene Amsterdammer and Adformatie.
A Human-centred Approach to Marketing Maximum Number of Participants 10–12
Participants will learn the basic principles of taking a human-centred approach to marketing focusing on identifying and meeting audience’s socio-cultural needs. Following a basic tutorial, participants will be given a mock-brief, break into teams and develop human-centered campaigns and ideas to share with the group. The focus will be on finding ways to develop brand
ideas that deliver value for everyone, the brand owners, the individual and society. ANCHOR: Gerry Hopkinson Co-founder, Unity hellounity.com Unity is a London based creative agency with a humanist agenda. The agency has an interdisciplinary approach weaving social psychology, experiential marketing, design, PR, social media and brand content into integrated campaigns for clients like Absolut, Adidas, The British Council, GlaxoSmithKline, Save the Children.
UpCycle
Maximum Number of Participants 10 In this workshop you can join the Hendzel + Hunt team to take waste materials, which have been sourced from the streets of Delhi, and up-cycle them into desirable objects. The team will work with you to show how materials, which have been deemed worthless and thrown away, can be transformed to create striking and thought provoking objects. This hands on workshop encourages you to think outside the box, have fun and make some interesting objects. ANCHORS: Jan Hendzel & Oscar Hunt Hendzel + Hunt, UK Hendzel + Hunt are a young, creative design studio based in Peckham, South London. Their design ethos is based on highlighting the quality of reclaimed materials and showcasing them in today’s furniture market. Hendzel + Hunt believe that you can obtain very sophisticated, beautiful objects by the careful consideration of materials used. The materials that they use often dictate the outcome of their bespoke products. The timber choice often lends itself to the narrative of the furniture, whether it be old church roof trusses or a disused butterfly specimen cabinet, each tells its own story that they imbue into the product. To showcase what can be achieved with these materials, Hendzel + Hunt have created their own line of products, the MADE IN PECKHAM range, which is designed and built using reclaimed materials all from their local area SE15, London.
Occupy Media
Maximum Number of Participants 25 Community media has become a powerful tool to facilitate action and change across India and the world. Models for locally-owned and managed media production and distribution are teaching people to articulate and share their perspectives on issues that matter to themboth locally and globally. And these models are providing disadvantaged communities with the journalistic, critical thinking and creative skills that they need to do so. The workshop would touch upon the power and potential of community media, show some examples from India & elsewhere and guide participants on how they can do it themselves. It would focus on creating impact through community media and using video and radio to subvert and democratize content creation. Most importantly, it would reinforce that media is not about technology, thus demystifying the prejudice that only ‘techies’ can create media content and demonstrating that meaningful content is created through sensitivity, passion and commitment. ANCHOR: Stalin K Creative Director, Video Volunteers www.videovolunteers.org Stalin K. is a media and human rights activist, with 20 years experience pioneering new models of participatory media. He is a teacher, trainer and an internationally acclaimed documentary filmmaker. He is one of India’s leading exponent of community radio and community video. He currently leads Video Volunteers, an international organization dedicated to empowering community voices by setting up media projects around the world. Stalin has made over a dozen documentaries and has received several national and international awards. His films, ‘Lesser Humans’ and ‘India Untouched’, on the issue of caste and untouchability, are responsible for much of the international attention to Dalit issues.
In App Slam we plan to do exactly that. We invite app novices to join us in building a real app for the UnBox festival using the simple process of story-boarding. Storyboards are a new way to define the design and behavior of an app right inside the development environment for iOS Xcode. They are easy to use and allow you to create the user interface, live. The workshop is open to any participant. You may have a design bent and want to discover how to realize your concepts, or you may have an engineering view on the world and want to commune with designers. Or you may just be an “app curious” individual from any background. Participants are required to bring • An apple laptop running Lion OS. Before you arrive at the conference, download and install the latest version of xCode <http://developer. apple.com/xcode> on your machine; it’s free. • Also have some personal photos on your laptop, and/or a way to get your UnBox photos and videos off of your camera and onto your laptop. We’ll be practicing by making an interactive app journal of your UnBox experience. • If you have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, bring it with you. You don’t need one to build an iOS app, but if you do, you can take your app home with you.
App Slam
ANCHORS: Hannah Regier Associate Creative Director, Frog Design www.frogdesign.com Hannah, an Associate Creative Director at Frog Design, works primarily on end-to-end research/design/build projects. She believes that design and technology can not be separated, and that crossing the boundaries between the two disciplines is the only way to craft high quality experiences. Hannah is based in the US, but is spending 6 months in Bangalore at the new frog studio, co-located with the majority of frog’s engineers. She has designed artifacts and experiences across a variety of mediums, platforms and industries including Web, Mobile, Home Energy and Automotive. She also enjoys screen printing in her spare time. Hannah has a masters degree in Media Design from Art Center College of Design.
Now you can say “I’ll make an app for that!” Imagine if building an iOS app was as easy as graphically arranging all your screens within a single design canvas, where you can then define the app’s logical flow, and even assign transitions and animations.
Gaurav Bhushan Interaction Designer, Frog Design www.frogdesign.com An Interaction Designer at Frog Bangalore, Gaurav spends most of his time at the crossroads of design and technology. He feels that understanding the possibilities with technology
Maximum Number of Participants 8–12
helps him be creative in design. He loves to think about the details that help make designs real, working in close collaboration with the people who build it. These days, he’s trying to learn if he can lend a hand in this building process somehow. Gaurav likes to travel and soak himself in different cultures. After graduating as an engineer he pursued his creative interests with a course in design at National Institute of Design, India.
Food Memory
Maximum Number of Participants 10 In this workshop, Dutch ‘eating designer’— Marije Vogelzang will work with participants to explore the relationship between personal memories and associations with food. The participants will think about their personal food memories during an excursion to a local food market— examining the food available, smelling it and collecting some that has special meaning to them. The workshop will culminate in a ‘feeding-ritual’, where participants will share personal stories from their lives, while feeding each other the food that have memories associated with them. ANCHOR: Marije Vogelzang Founder, Marije Vogelzang Studio www.marijevogelzang.nl According to Marije, food is already perfectly designed by nature. Instead, her designs focus around the verb ‘to eat’. Marije is inspired by the origin of food and the preparation, etiquette, history and culture around it. For this reason, she doesn’t consider herself a ‘food designer’, but as the first ‘eating designer’ in The Netherlands.
Curated by Quicksand Design Studio
BEAT REPEAT Morning Sessions (10.00–12.00 hrs.) For Beat Repeat registered participants only Arpita Das
Arpita Das founded an independent publishing house, YODA PRESS in 2004 and an independent bookstore in 2009, both based in New Delhi. She will talk about the motivation behind starting YODA PRESS and YODAKIN, the business model of each, the problems & challenges that she has faced, and the advantages of running small, indie outfits.
Clyde D’souza
Clyde D’Souza has worked with JAM, MTV and 9X Media. His first book, Kissing Ass! The Art of Office Politics, published by Random House, is to be launched soon. Clyde will share details of approaching publishers and what it takes to get your book published in India.
Evening Sessions (18.45–20.15 hrs.) Open to all Veena Venugopal & VJ Thiruda
Veena Venugopal is the author of Would You Like Some Bread With that Book? This is a collection of 14 essays on books and reading to be published by Yoda Press in March 2012. She has been a journalist and writer for 10 years and has written about everything from the soaring Sensex to the puzzling science of plane spotting. She now works for Outlook Publishing and lives in Delhi. Veena will be doing a reading from her upcoming book, along with visuals from VJ Thiruda.
BLOT—Audio-video Performance
BLOT is an electronic and visual arts collective bringing their Basic Love of Things to India and the world through music, film, art & design. BLOT will present an experiment that tries to relook at the idea of audio-visual performance by cross-generating audio and visuals by treating them both as triggers, loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s poem The Raven.
Samrat
Samrat is an author, journalist and lapsed engineer. His first novel, The Urban Jungle, was published by Penguin in 2011. He’s also written short stories, some of which have been published in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and German. His most recent journalistic assignment was starting a daily newspaper in Chandigarh. He will be giving an illustrated talk on ‘The most important question in the world’. This is an attempt to make sense of the many existential crises that afflict us as individuals and societies, and hint at a solution.
Clyde D’souza
Clyde D’Souza has had a long and tiring career working with JAM, MTV and 9X Media. He has written scripts, created annoying caller tunes, and produced branded TV content for clients. He is currently kissing ass at 9X for their to-belaunched English music channel. More often than not he’s stuck in Mumbai traffic. Clyde will do a dramatized reading from his soon to be launched book, Kissing Ass! The Art of Office Politics, published by Random House. This will be an exclusive peak prior to the book launch.
The New Delhi Guitar Astrid Reza & Quartret Abmi Handayani The New Delhi Guitar Quartet was formed in September 2009 by acclaimed guitarist Shyamant Behal. The other members of the group are Lallawmzuala, Theophilus Benjamin and Thomas Horjam, all classical guitarists. All the members of the Quartet besides Shyamant are teachers at the Delhi School of Music and also Performer’s Collective.
The quartet plays music of many different genres and styles, and are experimenting with music that falls outside of the strictly classical field and so introduces audiences to a style that may not be familiar to them. However, the main idea is to have fun playing and enjoying the music.
Astrid Reza is a writer and single mother, living happily with her son in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Abmi Handayani is a writer who has her own way to see the world. They will present Kalamarica, which is a story about a dagger maker, written by Astrid Reza. This collaborative work features short story reading by the writer herself, accompanied with a live performance by Abmi Handayani.
FOOD LABYRINTH Curated by
The Grey Garden | Gresham Fernandes | Mia Morikawa | Arijit Bose | BLOT
The Food Labyrinth is a modern day ritual feast at the Max Mueller Bhavan, created primarily with re-purposed materials found in Delhi. A playground of whimsical gastronomic adventures, the food labyrinth is all about using off-beat methods to experience food in a multi-sensorial environment. Chemistry and Mixology fuses at the Absolut Liquid Lab, to create new forms of consumption and tasting that aims to intrigue and engage; Local treasures from the ever bustling Old Delhi street markets share space with an assemblage of fresh organic produce; and inventive live cooking stations where invited dreamers-meet-cooks whip up recipes both traditional and modern, telling guests stories about their genesis and evolution. The space will also have an audio-visual installation co-curated with the electronic music duo BLOT, screening food diariesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; video stories on food and eating from all over the world.
Time 19.00â&#x20AC;&#x201C;23.00 hrs. VENUE Max Mueller Bhavan 3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg, Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi. TEL. 011 2332 9506
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TECHNODROME Reactable Paranoia Tour
REACTABLE PARANOIA TOUR ARTIST Oliver Huntemann Reactable Set SUPPORTING ARTIST Nishant TIME
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VENUE Canvas 4th floor, Palladium Mall, High Street Phoenix, Mumbai TEL. 022 4348 5050
4 PANELS VOICES Habitat & Community | Notion of a Nation | Curating the New Culture | Future Forms
Form = Behaviour | Let’s talk about sh*t, baby! Full-time Amateurs & All-round Specialists
WORKSHOPS Design Research for Service Innovation | Let it go | Demystifying Sustainable Habitats | Make Sense Hold Up | Designing Institutions | New Forms of Story-telling | LATCH— Five Ways to Organize Information
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Let’s Talk About Sh*T, Baby! – Harnessing the Power of Sport And Fun to Make Toilets Cool!
Daniel Gross & Joris Maltha Catalogtree catalogtree.net
Merel Snel & Loes Verstappen Graphic Designers, 75B www.75b.nl
Thorsten Kiefer Founder, WASH United www.wash-united.org
In swarm systems, the behavior of one unit does not predict the behavior of the swarm as a whole. Catalogtree aims at designs that have some swarming capacity, where they know what the smallest information unit should do but not what the final design might look like. For them, a good design is more than the sum of its parts.
75B is an artists/designers collective from Rotterdam, the Netherlands. They consider autonomous artistic research to be an in-built component of their commissioned practice. For them the field of the arts is the place to engage with the basics. The fundamentals of graphic design and those of the fine arts are so far apart that 75B has amassed an ambivalent body of work. This duality reveals itself in communicative work done for clients alongside experimental work done for themselves. The dichotomy of this practice gives it a contradictory and almost absurd demeanour and although their work is simple, immediate and lucid it is often at the same time ambiguous and two-pronged.
A human rights lawyer by training, Thorsten has held several positions in human rights organizations working to promote the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, including Geneva-based CSO COHRE, German Institute for Human Rights and Brot für die Welt. In 2009, Thorsten started WASH United, an innovative initiative that harnesses the positive power of sport and the role model status of sport super stars to promote safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for all people, everywhere. Following highly successful campaigns in 8 countries in Africa in 2010 and 2011, WASH United, Quicksand and other partners are currently in the process of developing WASH United Cricket to raise the attractiveness of sanitation and hygiene in India and potentially other cricket-loving South Asian countries. An initial mega campaign in India is planned around the Twenty20 World Cup in late 2012.
VOICES VOICES
PANEL
Habitat & Community Can we create spaces to support emerging communities and cultures of living? Living spaces evolve over protracted lengths of time, in response to changing patterns of society and culture. The identification of new patterns in communities and culture, can trigger spatial interventions that help nurture new forms of living. In this manner, the creation of spatial experiences can impact larger currents of social and cultural change, and not be mere responses to them. The panel consists of spatial designers and creative entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds—from urban planning, museum design to community housing.
INDY JOHAR Co-Director, 00:/ Co-Director, Hub Westminster www.architecture00.net | hubwestminster.net
Hedwig Heinsman, Hans Vermeulen & Martine de wit Co-founders, DUS Architects www.dusarchitects.com
Indy Johar is a qualified Architect, co-founder of 00:/ [zero zero], Hub Westminster and Hub Venture Laboratory, and is a Director of the Global Hub Association. He has taught at TU Berlin, University of Bath, Architectural Association, LSE and University College London.
DUS architects, founded in 2004 by Hedwig Heinsman, Martine de Wit and Hans Vermeulen, builds ‘public architecture’: Architecture that influences the public domain using scale 1:1 models, urban process and strategy design, and that ranges from temporary interiors to longterm urban transformation trajectories.
Indy is a commissioner on the NLGN Commission for Local Government and the co-author of a new Book on the Civic Economy launched on May 12, 2011. He has written for many national and international journals on the future of design and social practice. He is also a Demos Associate, Fellow of Republica.
Hedwig Heinsman graduated Cum Laude from Delft Technical University in 2006. Raised in the Dutch Flevopolder, her interest lies in both utopic grand master planning and contemporary fashion and design.
Flora Lysen & Erik Rietveld Rietveld Landscapes www.rietveldlandscape.com Dr. Erik Rietveld is a Partner at design & research office Rietveld Landscape and a Senior Researcher at the University of Amsterdam (AMC/Department of Philosophy). His research on ‘Unreflective Action in Everyday Life’ was awarded by the European Science Foundation (2009) and twice by NWO, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (Rubicon 2008, VENI 2009). Erik Rietveld publishes regularly in international philosophy journals such as Inquiry, Phenomenology & The Cognitive Sciences, Theory & Psychology, and Mind. Flora Lysen is a researcher at the University of Amsterdam, Media studies department and teacher at the Master of Artistic Research at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague. She is currently collaborating on a research project at Rietveld Landscape. Her research interest is in interaction between the fields of visual culture studies, art and cognitive science.
Hans Vermeulen graduated from Delft Technical University in 2003. In 2001 he went to India for a study period at CEPT University in Ahmedabad. It was here where his fascination for the informal (nano)city versus formal (mega) city started.
AMARDEEP BEHL Director & Chief Designer, Design Habit. www.designhabit.com Amardeep Behl specialized in Exhibition Design from the National Institute of Design. He founded Oriole Design and later his present crossdisciplinary design studio—AB Design Habit. His passionate quest is for deeper meanings in working with space. To this end, he strives to combine various disciplines like architecture, graphic design, industrial design, film, photography and audio-visual, into a common language resolving the communication through spatial expression in unique and unexpected ways.
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Notion Of A Nation
Curated by Futurebrands
Do the multiple and disparate identities of India, preclude the concept of a “nation brand”? The face of India as seen by the world outside is a mix of conflicting propositions. The glowing economic story is often interrupted or stalled by a fickle political system. A vibrant and growing patronage of contemporary art and culture stands in sharp contrast to the indifference towards an indigenous tradition. A lesser understood India in its smaller towns and villages,
holds a promise vastly different from the sensationalism of its urban counterpart.
Anirban Mukherjee Brand Strategist, Futurebrand www.futurebrands.co.in
Satyanand Nirupam Writer and Editor
Indrajit Hazra Novelist and Journalist
Satyanand Nirupam is currently working with Delhi Press as Associate Editor (Sarita). Previously he has worked with Penguin Hindi as Editor and steadily built a list of important titles focusing exclusively on original works. He plays an active role in promoting a book-reading culture in Hindi through all possible media channels. He, with Giriraj Kiradoo, conceptualizes designs and coordinates Samanvay—the IHC Indian Languages’ Festival, New Delhi.
Indrajit Hazra is a novelist and journalist. He writes ‘Red Herring’, a weekly column on politics and culture for the Hindustan Times. He is the author of three novels, The Burnt Forehead of Max Saul (2000), The Garden of Earthly Delights (2003), and The Bioscope Man (2008).
Anirban Mukherjee has close to two decades of professional experience as a strategist – first in advertising and now as the head of Futurebrand’s consulting practice. Over the years of developing a diverse portfolio of brands and corporations, he has learnt one thing and its best expressed in this quote, “culture has strategy for breakfast.” His interest in studying culture and love for travel have come together in his work which involves immersion in people’s lives, in understanding the subtleties of cultural narratives and how that can shape organizations & brands.
The panelists on this theme represent a slice of these varying identities of India. In light of the question raised above, the panel would reflect on their own body of work in an attempt to define what, if any, is the identity
of the nation that their work projects. Using that as a springboard, the panel would discuss the challenges of creating a “nation brand” in our context and bringing us eventually to the question — can a nation ever be defined as a brand and are the attempts to do so, merely opportunistic?
PANEL
Curating the New Culture
What is the relevance of curation in our rapidly changing world? What is culture in today’s world? Is it being redefined? If so, how? What is curation in the context of this new sense of culture? With increased firsthand access to content, what is the role of curated platforms or curatorial institutions?
The panel on curating the new culture will address these questions and more. The panelists will reflect upon their own work in building new kinds of institutions and frameworks that address the issues of complexity in our increasingly fragmented world.
The discussion will cover their own diverse backgrounds and their challenges and pleasures of curation.
Pepijn Zurburg & Richard van der Laken De Designpolitie What Design Can Do www.designpolitie.nl | whatdesigncando.nl
Parmesh Shahani Godrej-India Culture Lab
Archana Prasad Co-founder & Director, Jaaga Jaaga.in
The Dutch graphic design studio De Designpolitie is celebrated for its fresh, deceptively simple and direct approach to graphic design, which often implements bright colour and sans-serif typeface in a lively and fun style. Richard and Pepijn are also the initiators, curators and designers of a new major international design conference about the impact of design, called What Design Can Do. What Design Can Do celebrates the power of design and its problem-solving abilities. This two-day event in Amsterdam exposes design as a catalyst of change and renewal and a way of addressing the societal questions of our time.
Parmesh bridges the business, academic and creative worlds. He presently runs the Godrej India Culture Lab, an experimental thoughtspace dedicated to probing the textured nature of modernity in contemporary India. He is also the Editor-at-Large for Verve, India’s leading lifestyle and luxury magazine. Parmesh’s first book ‘Gay Bombay: Globalization, Love and (Be) Longing in Contemporary India’ was published worldwide by Sage Publications in 2008. He is a TED Fellow and a MIT Futures of Entertainment Fellow and often speaks about the rapid changes taking place in contemporary India at conferences all over the world.
Archana Prasad, is a visual artist from Bangalore, India. Her work is a particular confluence of visual art, technology and urban communitybased work, steeped in design and research methodologies. Archana has a unique artistactivist role at Jaaga. She works towards building a stronger arts community and positively impacting public perception of art, artists and art-practices. She seeks to harness the power of the internet in this negotiation. She has a keen interest in documentation and creating public awareness on Bangalore’s socio-cultural heritage.
FutureForms FutureForms is a platform for young innovators from diverse fields of design, arts, business, technology and development, to pitch their ideas for change, with the objective of building meaningful dialogue and collaborations for their initiatives.
Mayank Mansingh Kaul Founder, The Design Project Mayank Mansingh Kaul, is a graduate from the National Institute of Design, has worked in the past on Cultural and Creative Industries’ Policy. Based in New Delhi, he runs an organic fashion and home textiles label, which works with contemporary Indian hand-crafts. The Design Project, India, is a not-for-profit organization engaged with the awareness, understanding, showcase and development of design in India. By creating platforms for design discussion, it will attempt to generate perspectives on Indian design history, contemporary design practice and expression, and position the mandate of design-thinking in wide applications.
Abhishek Hegde Program Manager, Strategy and Operations Digital Green www.digitalgreen.org Abhishek is a graduate from the London School of Economics, UK with specialization in use of technology for socioeconomic development. He is an avid inventor with multiple patents filed with US Patent Office. He is also a Fellow for Sustainable Business at the Piramal Foundation. At Digital Green he works to improve the sustainability of small and marginal farmers in rural India through the use of innovative financial models and communication technologies.
Venky Goteti Co-founder, Azri Project Caravan Labs
Nitesh Mohanty Co-founder, The Root www.theroot.co.in
Azri enables enterprises, institutions, governments, publishing firms and social ventures carry out information and communication technology (ICT) enabled business transformation. Venky pursued his graduate studies in ‘Media Technology’ and ‘ICT in Business’ at the Leiden University, The Netherlands.
After graduating from Sir J.J. School of Art & completing the program in textile design from NID, Nitesh Mohanty founded Idesign in 2002, a design studio that catered to a range of clients such as Shoppers’ Stop, Smoke House Grill, EMI Music, Children Film Society of India and Rolling Stones Magazine. He also has been supporting the alternative film platform, Vikalp through various graphic & print design initiatives.
Caravan Labs, seeks to leverage ICT to address social issues faced by citizens at a grass root level. The idea is to foster greater interaction between hackers, designers, researchers and technocrats and provide them a platform to come together to find and develop technology based solutions.
Somnath Ray Co-founder and design director, ‘dplay’ www.dplay.org Somnath is a graduate from MIT / Media Lab and Columbia University. At ‘dplay’ Ray guides and orchestrates the design explorations between several collaborators / players. dplay, the collaborative design enterprise is an intellectual toolbox that favors a computational and technological engagement with the design object; enabling the invention and production of cultural and high performance techno-rational artifacts across domains of architecture, urban design and industrial design.
Early 2011, Nitesh & Diya initiated The Root, a platform to propagate various social & environmental concerns through a range of creative mediums & merchandise.
WORKSHOPS For conference participants only
MakeSense HoldUp Maximum Number of Participants 14–18
In India, more than half of the population still defecates in the open every day. Yet access to mobile phones is increasing like wildfire. In fact, there are 200 million more mobile phone users than toilet users in India. One of the key underlying reasons for this gap is that while having a mobile phone is seen as cool, sexy and desirable, sanitation and hygiene are considered dirty, ugly or even taboo. WASH United will work with things Indians are excited about – from top cricket stars to Bollywood heroes, from song and dance to games and popular TV shows – to charge sanitation and hygiene with positive emotion. A MakeSense HoldUp is a rapid-innovation workshop to generate innovative ideas for Social Entrepreneurs in a non-expert participant group. MakeSense’s core objective is to accelerate the social impact of Social Entrepreneurs and help sustain this impact in time. The objective of this particular workshop held by WASH United is to develop ideas on leveraging innovative public art forms and street art techniques to make sanitation cool and desirable in India. A Hold-Up is a fast-paced workshop that will take the participants from an initial brainstorming session to a video prototype in two hours. While challenging, it is also a fun exercise. ANCHOR: Daniel Hires WASH United www.wash-united.org Daniel recently joined WASH United at the headquarters to support their innovation and communication processes. A social entrepreneurship enthusiast by heart, he is also part of the MakeSense Berlin chapter that supports local social entrepreneurs in challenges they face. By bringing the HoldUp format to UnBox, he hopes to contribute an effective yet fun tool for idea generation requiring little-to-no resources and also hopes to generate a flurry of new ideas that will help WASH United develop exciting communication that help to end India’s crisis in sanitation and hygiene. Wash United works to harness the power of sport to promote safe drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) for all people, everywhere.
LATCH—Five Ways to Organize Information Maximum Number of Participants 15
Based on Richard Saul Wurman’s five methods to organize information—namely Location, Alphabet, Time, Category and Hierarchy, this workshop will engage participants in an interactive format to explore information design and visualization. Working in small groups along with Joris & Daniel from Catalogtree, participants will explore organizational techniques and create meaningful group schematics with their team-members. ANCHORS: Daniel Gross & Joris Maltha Catalogtree www.catalogtree.net In swarm systems, the behavior of one unit does not predict the behavior of the swarm as a whole. Catalogtree aims at designs that have some swarming capacity, where they know what the smallest information unit should do but not what the final design might look like. For them, a good design is more that the sum of its parts.
Let it Go
Maximum Number of Participants 10–12 The workshop will be a taster to the art of Red Nose Clowning and give the participants an orientation towards it. The practice of clowning can and has been used to create a feel good environment in various scenarios and locales besides helping people feel a sense of liberation. Sustained practice of clowning is a highly introspective process, helping people face their inhibitions & fears and overcoming them. So, put on the smallest mask in the world, and take the first step towards finding your clown and reconnecting with your inner child. ANCHOR: Ashwath Bhatt Theatre Garage Project Ashwath graduated (in 2001) from the National School of Drama/New Delhi. He was selected as scholar for Inlaks Foundation to study at London Academy of Dramatic Arts (LAMDA). He has conducted workshops on various aspects
of acting in England, Germany, France, Croatia, Czech Republic, Nepal, Pakistan and India. He has worked with reputed theatre companies like Oxfordshire touring theatre Co., GLYPT, BBC worldwide, Flying Fish theatre Company- Berlin. Five years back, he established ‘Theatre Garage Project’ to practice and explore red nose clowning in India.
New Forms of Story-telling
Maximum Number of Participants 10–12 In this workshop, the Light Surgeons will share their experiences and give an insight into the processes and tools of their work and recent projects. The Workshop will push the audience to heighten their perceptions of the experience and value of multimedia in their professional work. Their projects such as SuperEverything*, which is being showcased at the UnBox opening, is an eyeopener on the new converging domains of research, ethnography, film making, sound design and live performance. ANCHOR: The Light Surgeons www.lightsurgeons.com The Light Surgeons are a pioneering collective of multimedia artists, founded in 1995 by artist and director Christopher Thomas Allen. The Light Surgeons operate as a multi-media production company from a base in East London. Their work spans across film, motion graphics, print, photography, installations, exhibitions and live performance. Over the past 15 years they have helped pioneer many new forms of cross disciplinary practice, from live cinema performances to bespoke installations using custom software, large scale exhibitions in museums and working with brands along with forging new forms of digital film making. They have worked with a broad spectrum of commercial clients and cultural institutions on a wide range of projects. They bring their years of experience of being a world leader in the creative industry to each project they under take and continue to look for new challenges and collaborations.
Demystifying Sustainable Habitats
are relevant to it, and has explored various aspects related to sustainable urban development such as slums and the urban poor, adapting vernacular architecture, conservation and adaptive re-use of historic and cultural spaces.
Shelter is a universal phenomenon. A universal need that in the face of shortage, is also increasingly becoming a universal demand.
Designing Institutions
Maximum Number of Participants 10–15
The shelters we live in have moved from being a bare necessity to a statement about ourselves and our identities. And over time, this trend has given rise to fields such as urban planning, urban design, architecture, civil/structural engineering, acoustics, illumination engineering, environmental engineering, plumbing and so on. The list adds another score to itself with each passing year. The question we are left with then, is “when did this universal phenomenon begin to forget universal truths?” In traditional Indian knowledge, there are five elements that influence sustainability in a region, namely — language, food, clothing, shelter and music. This workshop shall attempt to revive faith and understanding of such concepts that have given shape to habitats over history. Additionally, the workshop will address certain “universal parameters” based on which our ancestors handcrafted their shelters. Habitats that even today, have us questioning our technology, skills, design methodologies and leave us in awe. The workshop shall explain these universal parameters through clothing. Drawing parallels between our second skin (clothes) and our third skin (shelter) it will challenge the participants’ creativity in designing sustainable, climate responsive, low energy costumes and then extend the same principles to our third skin-shelter.
Maximum Number of Participants 25 Traditional definitions of design often focus on creating discrete solutions—be it a product, a building, or a service. ‘Designing Institutions’ is about applying some of the principles of traditional design to “big picture” systemic challenges like health, education, and entrepreneurship. Increasingly, we see design as how software and hardware come together, with place being a physical manifestation of that thought. This workshop will look at how designers are working in an integrated fashion across these two fields to build new kinds of institutional and physical spaces. ANCHOR: INDY JOHAR Co-Director, 00:/ Co-Director, Hub Westminster www.architecture00.net | hubwestminster.net Indy Johar is a qualified Architect, co-founder of 00:/ [zero zero], Hub Westminster and Hub Venture Laboratory, and is a Director of the Global Hub Association. He has taught at TU Berlin, University of Bath, Architectural Association, LSE and University College London. Indy is a commissioner on the NLGN Commission for Local Government and the co-author of a new Book on the Civic Economy launched on May 12, 2011. He has written for many national and international journals on the future of design and social practice. He is also a Demos Associate, Fellow of Republica.
ANCHOR: Gaurav Shorey Assistant Professor Sushant School of Art & Architecture, Delhi Gaurav has a degree in Architecture (School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi) with a post-graduate diploma in advanced construction management (D.A.C.M – National Institute Maximum Number of Participants 20 for Construction Management and Research, Pune). His work reflects his interests in Indian To inspire challenging innovations of the servicbuilding and construction, and the issues that es that organisations offer, design research is an
Design Research for Service Innovation
integral part of the conceptualization process. Design research is different from traditional marketing or usability research, as these usually take place in isolation just before or after the design of a new service concept. The primary aim of design research is to develop a deep understanding on specific aspects of everyday life or specific groups of people, relevant to the context of the service innovation. The results of the research inform and inspire the interdisciplinary team of designers, strategists, and technology experts. The research is always bespoke for the project, and deliberately designed. This includes designing the research materials, the research process, and the research output. In the workshop at UnBox, examples of projects for large international clients will be discussed, and the participants will get some hands-on experience with using a selection of tools and techniques. ANCHOR: Dr. Geke van Dijk Strategy Director and Co-founder, STBY www.stby.eu STBY specialises in design research for service innovation and is based in London and Amsterdam. Founded in 2003, STBY was one of the first agencies to conduct design research projects based on the service design philosophy.
EYE MYTH Featuring Films By
Andrew Sorensen | Zeitguised | Beeple | Candas Sisman | Murat Pak | Sameer Kulavoor | The Light Surgeons | Semiconductor | Tom Lindsay | Moka | Brian O’ Reilly | Eness
EyeMyth is a festival of moving images that visualise and celebrate music. The objective behind EyeMyth is to showcase a diversity of techniques in the creation of engaging audiovisual content. The festival will feature works by musicians, film makers, and media artists—both established and emerging—from around the world. EyeMyth is accompanied by live cinema performances and nation-wide screenings that demonstrate the crossing over of the senses of sight and sound. Open to All DATE
04 Feb 2012
DATE
10 Feb 2012
DATE
12 Feb 2012
TIME
18.45 hrs. onwards
TIME
21.00 hrs. onwards
TIME
21.00 hrs. onwards
VENUE Auditroium, The British Council, 17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110001 TEL. 011 4219 9000
VENUE Edward Talkies, Kalbadevi, Mumbai, Maharashtra TEL. 022 2201 2109
VENUE CounterCulture 2D2, 4th Cross, Whitefield Road, Bangalore – 560048. TEL. 080 4140 07.93
The UnBox Festival—Closing
Antariksha Sanchar An interdisciplinary collaborative performance, interpreting the history of flight.
Antariksha Sanchar is a journey through the origins of flight, and the evolution of aircrafts in mythology, science and imagination. The production brings together pioneering studios from dance, art, music and architecture to create a hybrid experience. Led by Bharatanatyam exponent Guru Jayalakshmi Eshwar from Kalakshetra, the dance choreography assimilates new media and the unusual context of this piece to present a neoclassical production that offers a glimpse into the future of performing arts in India. The dance choreography brings Bharatanatyam together with diverse styles of body movement including Chhau, Kallari, Aerial Yoga, modern dance and fashion choreography.
This event is open to UnBox Conference registrants, invited guest and pre-registered guests Guests may register by sending a request to culture@unboxfestival. com stating the performance you want to attend (in the subject field), and details with name, phone numbers and email.
Collaborating Artists GURU JAYALAKSHMI ESHWAR Concept, Choreography and Music An internationally renowned Bharatanatyam exponent par-excellence, Jayalakshmi Eshwar is an acclaimed performer, choreographer, teacher and author. BLOT Production, Concept and Visuals Curators of the UnBox Festival, BLOT is a pioneering electronica and arts collective. The collective comprises of designers, musicians, visual artist and performers who belong to the new wave of creative collectives that have broken down the boundaries between disciplines. SATTYANANDA (Audio Aashram) Electronic Music Composition and Production An impressive international profile, seven album releases and few more on their way, Sattyananda (Nikhel Kumar Mahajan) is a musical force to be reckoned with. Sattyananda is also the vision behind Audio Aashram—a leading music and culture platform that has spawned India’s most popular online Radio station Radio79, a music label with several acclaimed releases, and the creation of new musical experiences through collaborations with other artists.
11.11 by CellDSGN Styling and Costume 11.11 by CellDSGN is an unconventional brand with personalization & simplicity creating a unique identity. 11.11 reflects a hybrid understanding of the power of the collective, synergized with the unique perspective of the individual. Anagram Architects Spatial Design An award winning architectural studio, Anagram’s practice is diverse and encompasses public infrastructure planning, urban design, architecture, scenography, furniture design and interior design.
TIME 20.00–23.30 hrs VENUE Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi 110001 TEL. 011 2332 9506 Please be seated by 20.30 as entry will be closed soon after.
Day 2
TECHNODROME Reactable Paranoia Tour
TECHNODROME MASTERCLASS
REACTABLE PARANOIA TOUR
TIME 18.00 hrs. onwards
ARTIST Oliver Huntemann
Oliver Huntemann Reactable Workshop Only by Registration at nishant@8-bit.in
SUPPORTING ARTIST BLOT! TIME 22.00 hrs. onwards VENUE Sura Vie 1, Scindia House, Janpath, New Delhi. TEL. 011 4309 5000
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CITYWIDE
EVENTS Open Studios
Aesthetics of Cultural Change
FOOD WALK
feb
The Grey Garden | Elma’s Bakery | Flipside Cafe | The Living Room & Kitchen | Bohème | GunPowder | The Iron Curtain
TECHNODROME
FOOD WALK Curated by
The Grey Garden | Gresham Fernandes | Mia Morikawa | Arijit Bose | BLOT!
The Grey Garden A meeting space at the intersection of fashion and food; culture and commerce.
Elma’s Bakery A quaint bakery, cake shop and tea room, serving goodies that are ‘homemade’ with love.
Flipside Cafe An unusual crêperie and cafe with a unique take on home food cooking.
The Living Room Cafe & Kitchen A cafe, restaurant, lounge, bar and events venue—all rolled into one.
Bohème A rooftop patio cafe and restaurant with a bohemian vibe.
GunPowder A peninsular kitchen serving authentic recipes from South India.
Food Walk, throws open the doors of some of Hauz Khas Village’s inventive and bohemian eateries, where participants get to sample signature dishes and savour diversity of cuisine within Hauz Khas Village. Run by individuals who are passionate about food and creating new gastronomic experiences, the Food Walk will also give them an opportunity to talk about their restaurant’s conception and journey thereafter.
TIME 10.00–15.00 hrs. VENUE Hauz Khas Village CONTACT Rikta Dennis
+91 7838 557 922 +91 9711 498 998
OPEN STUDIOS Participating Studios
Ishaan Khosla Design | Design Route | FattaBox | Jamun Design |Yodakin | Kunzum Cafe | People Tree | DPlay | Dev Kabir Malik Design
UnBox brings the spirit of cross-disciplinary cultural experimentation to the city, inviting the public to join in Open Studios that show the city at work. We are creating a Sunday experience to explore the creative community of Hauz Khas Village. Open Studio is a chance for studios, galleries and stores to open their doors to conversations with people who are inquisitive about art, design and creative practices.
For more information, contact Ayesha Sood (Jamun Studio) at ayesha@jamun.net TIME
10.00â&#x20AC;&#x201C;15.00 hrs
VENUE Hauz Khas Village
Curated by Futurebrands
Aesthetics of Cultural Change
A Walk on a street is always a great photographic opportunity in any small town or even a suburban locality of a large town India. An Indian street is a photogenic chaos, contributed to by people and their attires, animals and their dung, vehicles on 2, 3 and 4 wheels, both motorized and non motorized, electric poles radiating electricity through an intricate mesh of wires, shops and their bright signage, fresh looking vegetables & fruits kept so through constant splash of water and an air envelope constituted by dust and fume. A street is an organic system, always living, breathing and open to change from any direction and every little change adding to the spectacle of street chaos. The Walk is about developing an eye for cultural change. Within the riot of colours and textures is it possible to spot nuggets of change? The culturally curious team at Futurebrands takes pleasure in capturing the
glory of Indian street through a perspective of change and dynamism. Futurebrands will share the approach through which they look at street culture and would welcome the participants to bring in their observations as well. The idea is to richly capture the story of new India alive on its streets.
where we all share our nuggets and identify some patterns of change. This could be in clothing and styling of people, usage of mobile technology, body language of women, fonts and design of shop façade or anything else that we capture on the streets. The oral nuggets when seen in conjunction with visual one will help us explain some patterns of change and help us arrive at some insights about the emerging India.
The eye for cultural change finds beauty in anything that’s new, interesting, out of place, and is colliding with existing or native culture of the street. Idea during the walk is not just to capture what’s interesting but also to strike up a conversation with people who are either carriers of new or are facilitating the newness.
TIME
During the walk we will collect visual and oral nuggets about shedding of old, adoption of new or a juxtaposition of old & new. This will culminate in a workshop facilitated by Futurebrands,
For pre-registered participants only.
10.00–17.00 hrs.
CONTACT Futurebrands. TEL. 011 2654 8005
Day 3
TECHNODROME
TECHNODROME SUNSET PARTY ARTIST Arjun Vagale + Gaurav Malaker TIME
16.00 hrs. onwards
VENUE Shroom Third Floor, The Crescent Mall, Lado Sarai, Mehrauli, New Delhi TEL. 011 2952 3838
REACTABLE PARANOIA TOUR ARTIST Oliver Huntemann SUPPORTING ARTIST Kohra TIME
19.00 hrs. onwards
VENUE Stone Water Grill Pyramid Complex, 81/82, North Main Road, Koregaon Park, Pune TEL. 020 4103 03 03/04/05
UnBox is the culmination of efforts of four successful Indian creative practices that have exemplified the value of interdisciplinary collaborations, as the means of driving impact and change. With UnBox, they seek to locate, strengthen, and support a larger community with shared beliefs and optimism about creating social & cultural change in India. B.L.O.T.
Codesign
Blindboys
Quicksand
blottin.blogspot.com B.L.O.T. also known as The Basic Love Of Things, is an acclaimed mixed media performance collective that creates memorable experiences by transforming spaces through live performances—comprising of sound, light, imagery and art. B.L.O.T. believes in a mixed media culture that has resulted in several music videos and independent films that will find their way into a debut Audio-Visual DVD album in 2012. Using several techniques touching traditional film making, stop-motion animation, motion graphics and new media technology, the central aim is to create contemporary visual music pieces and independent cinema that breaks with traditional approaches to creation and publishing in India.
www.blindboys.org Blindboys uses free and open means to share photography. In addition to being a platform for new visual perspectives from the continent, Blindboys also dreams of creating a community for a better synthesis of art, media, and Asian cultures leading to a holistic meaning of new Asian visual identities.
www.codesign.in Codesign is a brand & communication design practice. With an understanding of what your business or organization needs to say, and learning from what your end-users care about, Codesign bridges the gap with brand communication that it is meaningful and memorable for the end user. In times of change, our efforts at ‘what-you-standfor’ and ‘how-you-say-it’ are driven by new processes, tools and user behaviour. Codesign, does not conform to a style, but to the view that each project is unique in the challenges that it poses and the context that it is situated in. Our approach and design is Indian, because we work in response to the Indian context.
www.quicksand.co.in Quicksand is a multi-disciplinary design and innovation consultancy. We bring expertise in business, design, technology and research to partner organizations in the innovation process. We believe that human-centered design is intrinsic to robust product & service development and is thus the guiding principle for all innovations that emerge from our practice. Our work spans product and service innovation, design for social impact, technology environments and brand strategy along with thriving independent practices.
GETTING THERE
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Police stations near British Council:
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Sansad Marg, Connaught Place, New Delhi. TEL. 011 2336 1231 Barakhamba Road, New Delhi. TEL. 011 2336 3800, 2336 3700
Ambulance 102 Hospitals near British council: Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Baba Kharak Singh Marg, Near Gole Dakkhana, Connaught Place, New Delhi. TEL. 011 2336 5525
THE BRITISH COUNCIL
Apollo Hospital, Mathura Road, Sarita Vihar, Jasola Vihar New Delhi. TEL. 011 2692 5858 Radio Cabs: 011-4422 4422, 011-4343 4343 To find phone numbers and addresses of specific service providers:
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British Council
17 Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi 110 001 TEL. 011 2371 1401/0111/0555
Max Mueller Bhavan
3, Kasturba Gandhi Marg New Delhi 110001 TEL. 011 2332 9506, 2347 1100
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