Delight – India’s new connected e-toilets
by Shagun Singh
Public toilets have always been a big problem in India. New and innovative solutions are created everyday to solve this problem. The latest in the row of toilet innovation is the E-Toilet by a company called Eram Scientific Solutions which is a part of the Eram Group, a technology research and development company. The company [...]
INDIA Future of Change : Panel discussion on Design, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
by Shagun Singh
A Luncheon Panel Discussion on Design, Innovation and Entrepreneurship : Change Drivers for India’s Inclusive Growth was held in Davos, Switzerland by ‘India Future of Change‘ on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2011. The panel that featured experts from the field of innovation and design discussed how the synergy between design [...]
Unbox Festival
by Ria Rajan
India seems to be on the brink of exciting new things especially in the realm of art and design. As a young creative practitioner, its inspiring and encouraging for me to see examples of the new work that is emerging from the country.The UnBox festival was once such platform that brought together 200 practitioners, academics, [...]
Government, open data & design
by Shagun Singh
The Union Cabinet in India approved a “National Design Policy‘ on 8th Feb 2007. The step was taken realizing the strategic importance of design for national and industrial competitiveness. The vision behind initiating the ‘National Design Policy’ is to have a design enabled Indian industry. The government initiated a consulting process with designers and industry [...]
Gaining ground – making a new homeland : Understanding Parsi architecture through Parsi people
by Shagun Singh
A new publication on Parsi housing in India, was recently released by the SID Research Cell, Center for Environmental, Planning and Technology (CEPT), Ahmedabad. The book that has been titled – ‘Gaining ground – Making a new homeland’ is a set of explorations based on history, migration, growth, architecture and lives of the Parsis in [...]
Low-cost self-diagnosis tool for rural India
by Ria Rajan
Primary health centers are the cornerstone of the rural health care system. In 1991, India had about 22,400 primary health centers, 11,200 hospitals, and 27,400 clinics. These facilities are part of a tiered health care system that funnels more difficult cases into urban hospitals while attempting to provide routine medical care to the vast majority [...]
BPL StudyLite by Studio ABD
by Ria Rajan
In India, power cuts during exam time is every child’s biggest anxiety. One breaks into a sweat, starts pacing up and down and even goes to the extreme of praying to the Almighty; promising reforms, pledging away a life of sin and the long dreadful countdown to when the lights will turn back on. This [...]
The Indovators – Part 1 | Lina Srivastava
by Shagun Singh
Lina Srivastava is the Principal of Lina Srivastava Consulting, LLC, which focuses on employing strategy, innovation, engagement and the use of cultural assets to create and demonstrate social change. For our new feature ‘The Indovators’, Lina talks about opportunities for indian designers in the fields of service design, information design, systems design, climate change and [...]
Uniform Project at Bungalow 8
by Shagun Singh
Most people in the US of A, may have already heard about the Uniform Project. But for those few who still don’t know, here is a quick update. Uniform Project is the brain child of this quirky, fun and fabulous girl called Sheena Matheiken from Brooklyn, NY. She was born and raised in South India [...]
