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UnBox Festival

Are We Being Served? With Nico Macdonald and Richard Eisermann

February 21, 2011
In the UK, service design has emerged over the last decade as a discipline that improves peoples’ experiences when visiting the doctor, opening a bank account, renting a car, etc. But how transferable (and relevant) are the tools, methods and processes of service design when applied to the Indian context? We will seek to answer this question by engaging and challenging workshop participants to re-...
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Workshop: Design Jamming: Tools for Ideation with Bram Pitoyo

February 7, 2011
While design practitioners have tools for production, planning, and even decision evaluation, tools for ideation are harder to come by. Tools for ideation that generate a wide range of ideas while still producing focused outcomes are even harder to come by. In this workshop, design strategist and typographer Bram Pitoyo teaches you a method for approaching a range of design questions, from how to ...
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An Afternoon with MP Ranjan and John Thackara

February 3, 2011
Participants can join these design thinkers for a conversation about design thinking intersecting with different disciplines. Enjoy an open conversation in the spring sunshine between MP Ranjan, John Thackara, and UnBox attendees....
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Workshop: Five Steps to Designing Classrooms for Real Learning with iDiscoveri

Workshop: Five Steps to Designing Classrooms for Real Learning with iDiscoveri
February 3, 2011
Learning is a complex process for children and it often breaks down in the classroom. Despite a lot of talk and theory about making learning meaningful for children, there are few practical last-mile solutions on how exactly to design classrooms for real learning. Ashish will draw from his decade-long experience in transforming classroom learning hundreds of schools across the country to lay out a...
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Panel: Cultural Funders

February 3, 2011
Funders of cultural activities in India will reflect on their role in shaping projects and trends by discussing projects past and future.  They will also offer practical advice for seeking funding and partnerships with their institutions. Confirmed speakers include the Goethe Institut, Pro Helvetia, and Austria Culture Forum....
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Workshop: Storytelling in New Media

Workshop: Storytelling in New Media
February 3, 2011
Filmmaker Varun Mathur, Basic Love of Things co-founder Avinash Kumar, and 4YourEye show and tell about storytelling, communicating, and stirring strong feelings among collaborators, partners, and broader audiences. We will see film, digital media, and other techniques and conceptual principles of telling stories about complex systems -- non-linear stories with many characters, relationships, and ...
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Panel: Organic Food & Farming in India: The Road Ahead

Panel: Organic Food & Farming in India: The Road Ahead
February 3, 2011
Organic food, farming, & lifestyles are global trends that are finding their way into India. In a strange irony this represents going back to traditional means of producing food that Indian farmers utilized for centuries till artificial pesticides and fertilizers came in under the Green Revolution banner. This revival of organic food production and retail has been fraught with multiple debates...
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Demo: “the expanded cracked everyday electronic” with Andy Guhl

Demo: “the expanded cracked everyday electronic” with Andy Guhl
February 3, 2011
Learn the principals of his new audiovisual performance „The Instrument“ – how does light transform into sound. THE INSTRUMENT is Andy Guhls music and photo instrument for an audio-visual live performance. It consists of broad, highly developed „cracked everyday electronics“ and expands this audio performance with divers wireless micro cameras, beamers to a synchronic audio-visual experience. T...
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Panel: Self-Publishing Platforms in India

February 3, 2011
Building off of the energy to document culture and create new kinds of expression, panelists discuss emerging trends in self-publishing as a way of creating new spaces for interdisciplinary practices. Nikhel Mahajan of AudioAshram Shani Himanshu of CellDsgn Arpita Das of Yodakin This panel will happen in sequence with the cultural funders panel for participants interested in partici...
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Workshop: Typocentric Bazaar with Meena Kadri & Rajesh Dahiya

Workshop: Typocentric Bazaar with Meena Kadri & Rajesh Dahiya
February 3, 2011
Find creative resources in the world around you. In this workshop, participants will create typography from objects and forms available at local markets. Participants will learn how pixel fonts work, starting off with making basic letterforms out of found objects such as bindis or seeds. Emerging typgorapherswill then graduate to more complex objects such as, in the spirit of UnBox, boxes. Meena ...
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Workshop: Crafting Livable Cities

Workshop: Crafting Livable Cities
February 3, 2011
Cities -- bustling, booming, growing, and absorbing -- are an intrinsic part of our lives today. While we engage with our cities in multiple ways and senses, we often have very little stake or say in how they evolve and grow. And too often, we do not articulate our own imaginations of the cities we want to live in. This workshop will bring together a diverse set of participants to collectively ...
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Workshop: Developing XSKOOL with John Thackara

Workshop: Developing XSKOOL with John Thackara
January 12, 2011
John Thackara will lead a workshop a new Doors of Perception project called XSKOOL. John explains: "Xskool is a professional development course - whose content and form have yet to be designed -  for design reformers. "Most design schools and offices, architecture firms, or government departments contain one or two people who are ready and eager to make a fundamental transition to a new ...
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Workshop: Design in the Social Sector with D-Impact

Workshop: Design in the Social Sector with D-Impact
January 6, 2011
How do design and the social sector close the gap between them and work together to effectively implement solutions? Participants will collaborate to define and explain the value of design processes in the social sector, and will apply these definitions to real-world NGO scenarios. This workshop will be led by Design Impact, a non-profit design organization that has been providing design service...
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Brainstorm: Re-imagining Digital Learning

Brainstorm: Re-imagining Digital Learning
December 14, 2010
A workshop with experienced learning non-profit Quest Alliance invites you to re-imagine user interfaces for digital learning. User interfaces for learning have largely stayed in the era of Powerpoint templates. For too long, the mouseclick has remained the thin connection between students and the materials they are learning. Experiment with new technologies such as tablets and iPhones and develop...
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Workshop: Clay Futures with Chintan Jani

Workshop: Clay Futures with Chintan Jani
December 14, 2010
A certain clay known as bentonite (also called montmorillonite) has the potential to partially replace harmful and unsustainable building materials such as cement, metal, wood and plastics. Using different processing techniques, bentonite can be used to prepare structural as well as aesthetic objects of a large variety of forms, sizes and functions. Bentonite’s ability to remove pollutants from ai...
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