Visualising Sustainability for Davos 2009

India Innovation Workshop, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad

26^th – 27^th December 2008

 

Background:

A Sustainability Design Charette was organised by the World Economic Forum at New Delhi on the 14^th and 15^th November 2008. The Charette consisted of mixed groups of of business executives, sustainability experts, designers and design students, and social entrepreneurs.

NID designers Anand Saboo, Vishnu Priya, M P Ranjan, Praveen Nahar, Shreya Sarda and Mitushi Jain participated at the Charette with world industry and expert participants across six groups that examined and developed innovative concepts and frameworks for sustainable futures leading to design opportunity offerings for many sectors of the consumer industry.

The push will now be to understand the ideas that will leverage these broad frameworks into the future. The aspects that currently maintain the status quo must be examined, and concepts that will bring about transformation will have to be envisioned. The broad themes have to therefore be detailed, visualised and made tangible.

 

The Workshop:

In order to take these themes forward, the National Institute of Design (NID) proposes a two day workshop, ‘Visualising Sustainability for Davos 2009’ on the 26^th and 27^th of December 2008, where multidisciplinary teams of design students, faculty, and invited experts will explore these themes, and create detailed concepts within each of these broad frameworks.

 The outcomes of this workshop will be further developed to be presented at the World Economic Forum at Davos, on the 29 January 2009.

 

Call for Participants:

If you are interested in creating concepts for a sustainable future, and would like to be part of this workshop, email an expression of interest, either verbal, visual or both, by Friday the 19^th of December 2008, with Name, Discipline and Email ID to : designatdavos@gmail.com

15 contributors will be part of the teams for the workshop! Contributors are invited from Paldi and Gandhinagar Campuses. We regret that we cannot reimburse travel expenses for students of the Bangalore Campus.

 

For Further Information:

 

Prof. M P Ranjan’s Blog entry on the Sustainability Charette:

http://design-for-india.blogspot.com/2008/11/sustainability-charette-world-economic.html

 

World Economic Forum Initiatives

http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/index.html

 

India Economic Summit

http://www.weforum.org/en/events/IndiaEconomicSummit/index.htm