Category Archives: Pune Design Foundation
History in the making for Indian Design
Dear All,
Last evening, 30th May ’09 saw a group of designers getting together to initiate and form the first national body of designers of India. It was just a preliminary meeting, but one that will consequently set the precedence for any action that will be taken in this regard.
This initiative has been taken by the Pune Design Foundation (PDF) and the Association of Indian Design Industry (AIDI).
We had Shrikant Nivasarkar, President IFI, who joined in as friend and advisor.
Will keep you all updated as we progress.
Warm regards,
Darpana.
India Design Festival
The Pune Design Festival became a larger platform called the ‘India Design Festival’ this year.
Apart from giving a presentation and help in organising, Sarvasva also had come up with an installation called ‘chaos theory’, for the overall theme of ‘Environment and Design’, wherein we collected discarded bottles and paper every day at the Festival to show how much waste the designers themselves generate, in a matter of a week.
We also got the ‘Polar Bear’ down from Mumbai. Our friend and artist Hetal Shukla, and the creator of this car, was here too.
And some of the highlights for us was the participation on the panel discussion on design, with CNBC (to be broadcasted soon), the very interesting talk by Prasoon Pandey, the various new friends we made and the great learning experience.
DESIGN RESPONSE TO TERROR.
Design Response to Terror PDF08:
System Design and Strategy Formulation – Session 1
A very recent initiative of the PDF, in lieu with the terrorist attacks on Mumbai on 26th November 2008.
Mukund Athale of Sarvasva Designs made a presentation and introduced a new project that we are working on, which can help tack people’s movements.
Aims
During this workshop participants will seek to answer the following questions:
- What are the problems we identify in the current scenario?
- How can design contribute to create meaningful intervention in such a situation?
- What formats can be explored?
- What are the design solutions we intend to seek?
Format of Workshop
10 – 12 pm : ‘My response to terror as a designer’- a 3-5 minute presentation by members (preferably 10 slides or less)
12 – 1 pm: Identification of problems and design intervention areas
1 – 1:45 pm : Lunch
1:45 – 3 pm : Participants will form groups and work out action plan for design response/ project scoping
3 – 4 pm : A concise action plan with milestones/ expected outcome
Initiated on December 4th, 2008 at Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune.
