Where Art meets Science and vice versa.
In simple words, Synthetic Biology is about making living organisms do things which nature had not intended on them doing. Its about taking tiny bits of DNA, splicing them together and inserting them into bacteria. In effect, a bacterium could be made to change colour or made to be bright enough to be visible to [...]
Uniform Project at Bungalow 8
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 [...]
Coming Soon – Designers as Change Makers – Part 4 | Ritwik Dey
Ritwik Dey is a computer engineer turned designer. He works as the Senior Interaction Designer for R/GA, a digital advertising agency in New York City. For the ‘Designers as Change Makers’ feature, Ritwik, amongst other things talks about the ineffective education system of India. He emphasizes on the fact, that the system needs to change [...]
The $10 Laptop by the Govt of India
The laptop has been developed by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) & Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Chennai. Though technology has been developed by IISc & IIT, laptop will be manufactured in collaboration with a private company. The laptop is expected to be launched in another 6 months (which should be right about now). The [...]
Designing for effective education
Barefoot college in Tilonia, Rajasthan, is a system of education that believes in the capability, knowledge and skills of the rural community and trains them further in specialized fields like solar engineering, rain forest harvesting, health and hygiene, wasteland development, and traditional media to name a few. The education is practical and combines indeginious local [...]