We'd like to invite you to the conference of a Social Design Festival,
initiated by Kokum design Trust, partnering with Entertainment Society of
Goa and supported by the British Council and IFB Goa. It seeks dialogue and
win-win solutions.
You can know more here: www.socialdesignfestival.com.
aSDF is instituted as a national independent festival, with a core focus on
design and socio-environmental issues. Because Social problems are Design
problems.
It pro-actively seeks to bring stakeholders and designers together to
create win-win solutions, highlighting clever interventions wherever they
may be, as well as connecting the people behind them.
Socio-environmental issues and the design world still exist in mutually
exclusive spheres, leaving lots of missed opportunities to unite and create
a real impact we wish to see.
For too long, the design has been recognized as simply a skill set for
surface application only and not for its process, which compulsorily
includes empathy.
For too long, have Government agencies worked towards solutions, not
realizing the ally they have in the design. The Government is and will be
the biggest beneficiary of an integrated approach to action.
With this Festival, we seek to encourage dialogue, generate content and
create interest in furthering ideas for future applications. Its goal will
be to connect all good efforts through example and networking.
This is a five-day festival that is split into workshops and a conference.
The workshops are rooted in real-life situations which in some cases are
together with government agencies such as CCP, Smart Cities Initiative and
the GHRSSIDC. They are mentored by leading professionals -
#1 - Design + Environment
#2 - Design + Institutes of Learning
#3 - Design + Cities
#4 - Design + Products for Waste Recovery
#5 Design + Learning Space
#6 Design + Craft
#7 Design + Resilience
The Two-Day Conference will begin with the presentations of the workshop
outcomes and is followed by 14 speakers that will speak under the headers
of
Design + Governance
Design + Environment
Design + Craft
Design + Media
Design + Impact
You are invited to attend across 20th and 21st, the first session starting
at 9.30 am being of relevance to Goa.
The founders of Kokum will be there for an interview during the course of
the day.
Thanking You,
Tushita Varma.
Programme Co-ordinator for aSDF I www.socialdesignfestival.com
a Social Design Festival I Goa, India I 17-21 FEB 2020
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*SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE DESIGN PROBLEMS AND YET DESIGN IS RARELY CALLED IN TO
BE PART OF PROBLEM-SOLVING EFFORTS.*
Despite this, social design, or efforts of
socio-environmental improvement have been informally active across India.
It is time to engage with and celebrate these efforts by bringing it into
the mainstream narrative through a festival.
*Sign up for one of the immersive three-day workshops curated by leading
professionals. These include exercises aimed to make the most of diverse
representations on real-time issues. The results will be peer-reviewed at
the start of the conference. Additionally, get inspired by the success
stories of 14 speakers over the two-day conference.*
*HARVESTING DESIGN IDEAS FOR POSITIVE CHANGE*
*WORKSHOPS ARE THREE-DAY HACKATHONS THAT ADDRESS DESIGN ISSUES IN THE
SOCIAL REALM.*
Seven workshops will run parallel to each other over a span of three days,
hence each participant can only register for one workshop. A seat at the
conference is included for all workshop participants.
#1 DESIGN + ENVIRONMENT
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URBZ Collective
#2 DESIGN + INSTITUTES OF LEARNING
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KTK-Belt Project
#3 DESIGN + CITIES
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Malini Krishnankutty and Oliver Goodhall with the State Government
#4 DESIGN + PRODUCTS FOR WASTE RECOVERY
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Mozaic and Thinkering with the State Government
#5 DESIGN + LEARNING SPACE
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Matter and Playgroup Studio with Missi
