Flashback – 30 years ago. Finishing engineering studies and envisioning film studies. Approached by a publishing house to help on a book on the “Architectures of Calcutta”. I went to Kolkata and spent days walking in the streets of the …

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April 15th will be full of designerly conversations. A DesignOpen.in session connecting Brazil to India to Malaysia to Europe. And just after, zooming in at the ideasummit.in to talk about brand and design-driven entrepreneurship, with Sonia Manchanda in both. Looking …

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The VIA-Framework allows to explore Leadership & Innovation VIA Design approaches in working about the future, the next, the new. Notions of innovation are shifting and require multiple ways of envisioning, exploring and expressing. The VIA-Framework is aiming to articulate these “ways” …

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The Post-Covid19 world depends upon how we rethink and what we do next. Together, let’s emerge from this crisis stronger, sharper, and happier! Design Open Happy is a light hearted effortless effort to sense the temperature of the planet. Connecting …

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The place of design/ing is more than ever critical. It is time to quit the industrial mindset and get into the interactive assemblage modes. Interaction at large. Interaction between people. Interaction between people and things. Interaction between people and places. …

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IxDA’s annual conference 2019 took place in Seattle in February 2019. My talk at Interaction19 was on the second day: in a nutshell on “thinking interaction design” and highlighting the need to have hybridity in our systems. The talk has …

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