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“Sandesh means ‘message’ and our message is love, peace and tolerance”. This is what Harji Lal, a Hindu man in a small district of Sindh Pakistan says to Bassim Tarikh & Omar Mullick, who are video journalists. Harji started the first Hindu paper called ‘Sandesh‘ for the minority community of Hindus in the Sindh province [...]
Join us on Feb 28th for a panel presentation and discussion on “Parallel Urbanism – local people regulating local spaces”. http://parallelurbanism.eventbrite.com THE PANEL Major decisions that affect design and planning of cities are made by urban planners, politicians, policy makers, real estate owners and the government. The local people who inhabit the city usually don’t [...]
Supertable (previously called the Mobile Activation Station) is a project by Holobiont (Haruka Horiuchi & Frank Hebbert) . It was selected as the winner of the ‘Grand Idea Competition‘ organized by Designwala this summer. Haruka and Frank won a grand or $1000 to make their idea come to life. Supertable is a portable reconfigurable table [...]
An innovative infographic on Indian classical music has earned Bengaluru student Pratyush Gupta a design excellence award at the Pune Design Fest 2012. see here
Jyoti Hosagrahar is faculty at Columbia University, New York and Director of Sustainable Urbanism International at Columbia University, and Bangalore, India. Architect, planner, and historian, she advises on urban development, historic conservation, and sustainability issues in Asia. Her research interests include urban heritage, cultural and environmental sustainability of cities focusing on the intersections of nature, [...]
