Workshops

A workshop that challenges the idea of making buildings. 
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.  
This workshop is anchored by:
Indy Johar, Co-Director, 00:/ and Hub Westminster
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
 
 
This workshop can accommodate a maximum of 15 participants.
 
 
 
Architecture 00
Civic Economy
The Hub
WikiHouse
 

Shelter is a universal phenomenon. A universal need that in the face of shortage, is also increasingly becoming a universal demand.

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.

The workshop will be anchored by:
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 for Construction Management and Research, Pune). His work reflects his interests in Indian building and construction, and the issues that 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 etc.

To inspire challenging innovations of the services that organisations offer, design research is an 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.
 
The workshop will be anchored by:Dr. Geke van Dijk, Strategy Director and co-founder of STBY
 
STBY is specialised 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.www.stby.euThe maximum number of participants for this workshop is 20.

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 and 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.
The workshop will be anchored by:
Daniel Hires, WASH United
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.
http://www.wash-united.org/
This workshop would be limited to 14-18 participants.

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, are an eyeopener on the new converging domains of research, ethnography, film making, sound design and live performance.
The workshop will be anchored by:
The Light Surgeons, UK
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.
http://www.lightsurgeons.com/

 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.
 
The workshop will be anchored by: 
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 (www.inlaksfoundation.org) to study at London Academy of Dramatic Arts (LAMDA)-London.  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.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/theatregarage/
 
This workshop would be limited to 10-12 participants.
 

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. 
The workshop will be anchored by: 
Daniel Joachim Christian Gross & Joris Maltha (Catalogtree)
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.
 
The maximum number of participants for this workshop is 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.
 
This workshop will be anchored by:
Sigma6
 
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, photography, 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 intitial function of image projection.
 

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?
This would be an interactive workshop to creatively explore and discuss these relationships.
The workshop will be anchored by:
Ramsey Ford, Co-founder of Design Impact.
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.
http://www.d-impact.org/
The maximum number of participants for this workshop is 24.

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.
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 storyboarding. 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
• You need to bring a mac 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.
The workshop will be anchored by:
Hannah Regier, Associate Creative Director
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.
 
Gaurav Bhushan, Interaction Designer
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 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.
http://www.frogdesign.com/
http://designmind.frogdesign.com/blog/author/design-masala/
http://twitter.com/frogdesign
This workshop would be limited to 8-12 participants.

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 them- both 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.
The workshop will be anchored by:
Stalin K, Creative Director, Video Volunteers
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.
www.videovolunteers.org
http://indiaunheard.videovolunteers.org/
http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/filmedia/play/5...
http://video.ahrchk.net/lesser-humans.html
The maximum number of participants for this workshop is 25.

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.
 
This workshop is anchored by:
Richard van der Laken & Pepijn Zurburg, The Gorilla Project
 
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 weekly magazine.
 
 
This workshop can accommodate a maximum of 15 participants.

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.
The workshop will be anchored by:
Gerry Hopkinson, Co-founder- Unity
Gerry is Co-founder of Unity, 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, Glaxo Smith Kline, , Save the Children, Unilever and the World Wildlife Fund. Unity has been recognized more than with 50 industry awards since forming in 2005.
http://www.hellounity.com
www.youtube.com/hellounity
This workshop would be limited to 10-12 participants

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
This workshop will be anchored by: 
Marije Vogelzang, Founder, Marije Vogelzang Studio
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.
The maximum number of participants for this workshop is 10.

 
 
"upcycle"
 
Pronunciation:
/ˈʌpsʌɪk(ə)l/
 
verb
[with object]
 
reuse (discarded objects or material) in such a way as to create a product of higher quality or value than the original:
the opportunity to upcycle trash, or turn it into new products, was vast
 


(as adjective upcycled)
upcyled furniture
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.
 
This workshop will be anchored by: 
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.
 
The maximum number of participants for this workshop is 10.