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Design Track of The Goa Project 2016

Lenses or Frames are a crucial element in any design. Through the last few years of TGP we’ve been exploring methodologies & principles of design, thoughts on various domains of design & your journeys through novel concepts & explorations. This year we thought we should pick up one lens through which you can view your design - Designing through the lens of India.

Being a part of a global community means taking in a lot of concepts from the east and west giving rise to a state of constant flux - but what have these trends meant for our cities, people and places? Through this years design track we want to invite speakers to talk about their work through principles, ideologies or (even better) work samples of how they’ve understood an element of our country and designed for it.

We’re throwing out a few ideas to elaborate the type of topics we’d like to encourage this year - Designing for preserving our past / cultural heritage, designing for the evolving needs of rural India, designing urban farming techniques to grow crops more economically, Designing modern housing units (and also in the process defining what it means to be a Modern Indian!), designing a type-face resonating the spirit of urban youth, designing a system of ethics for using mobile apps, designing for local eco-systems, designing a rural education system that allows you to earn while you learn. We’re keen on understanding the challenges you pick up in your work / your practice and through it understand the elements of an Indian context you work with.

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#The Goa Project Funnel The Goa Project is an unconference - where unlike a typical conference, the talks are not put together by a panel or knowledge partner - but is proposed by the attendees themselves. You propose a session or talk that might be of interest to the audience at the unconference, … more

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Gregory DSouza

Design for Culture (Products that thrive on adapting to culture or productizing a local cultural behavior)

Before venturing on a global expansion or copying a new startup, it is probably necessary to identify the cultural differences that may exist between one’s home country and the country of business operation. Where the differences exist, one must decide whether and to what extent the home-country practices may be adapted to the foreign environment. Most of the times the differences are not very ap… more
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  • Confirmed
  • 25 Dec 2015
Technical level: Beginner

Aditya Karle

Truly,Madly,Deeply, designing products for your customer’s needs

To introduce product owners,designers,analysts or entrepreneurs to tricks and techniques of designing products/services that are truly useful and desirable.(I typically run this as a 2hr hands on workshop) more
  • 0 comments
  • Cancelled
  • 26 Dec 2015
Technical level: Beginner

Tathagat

Let's build something "unuseless" :)

Creativity can’t always be mandated or predicted. It requires experimentation, and often results in totally useless or outrageous ideas that might mean nothing of value. However, innovation requires us to keep moving forward and we eventually find some ideas worth pursuing! In this highly interactive and hands-on workshop, we will play around with one such technique that helps us build something … more
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  • Confirmed
  • 26 Dec 2015
Technical level: Beginner

Sudhir Sharma

Indian Design - Where it comes from & how its different.

Indian vs european vs american design & why the difference is important how it shapes design culture more
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  • Confirmed
  • 08 Jan 2016
Technical level: Beginner

Shipra Bhutada

Know Your Users In Emerging Markets

To understand the nuances of designing for rural India. more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed
  • 08 Jan 2016
Technical level: Beginner

jasmeet sethi

Tinker Stories - Design for Startups

To understand how design works / should work for startups. more
  • 1 comment
  • Rejected
  • 08 Jan 2016
Technical level: Beginner

abhijit sinha

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Project DEFY : Design Education For Yourself

Show how you can learn by yourself, and how schools can exist without a teacher. A philosphical statement on definitions of education. more
  • 6 comments
  • Confirmed
  • 09 Jan 2016
Technical level: Intermediate

pooja talreja

Behind the scenes: Designing the world of ‘Court’

A presentation on the production design of the feature film ‘Court’. more
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  • Confirmed
  • 11 Jan 2016
Technical level: Beginner

preeti kolambekar

STORIES SPACES MEMORIES

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. more
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  • Confirmed
  • 11 Jan 2016
Technical level: Beginner

pooja ugrani

Ori-Ga-Me : fold - play - discover

let’s create, sit down (or run around, we aren’t too keen on decorum) let paper do all the talking. let’s touch more than a screen watch how our bodies react to paper and find new expressions! more
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  • Cancelled
  • 11 Jan 2016
Technical level: Beginner

khushboo hasija

PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR SMARTPHONES

For those who are looking to engage Youth - A presentation on emerging youth tech patterns in India more
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  • Cancelled
  • 12 Jan 2016
Technical level: Beginner

Parul Kumtha

Access-ability. Designing for Inclusion.

Sensitize through a presentation that mainly focuses on ‘Accessibility’ and Barrier free design. Explore adaptive design to suit local contexts.Focus on the importance of retrofitting existing ‘non-inclusive’ designs to make them inclusive, by the way of detailed audits and sensitive solutions.The presentation aims to plant a seed of thought in the minds of design students to help make them sensi… more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed
  • 13 Jan 2016
Technical level: Intermediate

Nambirajan

My Europe Travel Experiences

For people who have travelled or consider travelling to Europe more
  • 1 comment
  • Rejected
  • 13 Jan 2016
Technical level: Beginner

Jagdish Gandhi

The future of the Car??

to familiarise participants with developments in the auto industry including selfdriving autonomous vehicles under development by Google, Apple and car makers like General Motors, Ford, etc more
  • 2 comments
  • Rejected
  • 13 Jan 2016
Technical level: Intermediate

Nikhil More

Angrezi Signboard Painters

a look into a very peculiar phenomenon that occurs when signboard painters paint signs in both devanagiri and latin scripts. more
  • 0 comments
  • Cancelled
  • 13 Jan 2016
Technical level: Intermediate

Prajakta Kulkarni

A brief history of 'Asks'

The power of design is its ability to contextually morph into situations to make meaning out of them. And that is also perhaps its biggest defeat, leading to mental models in our economy on how we can be useful. This talk is about tracing the lineages of the different mental models of design which are the deeper meanings behind the ‘Asks’ of today. more
  • 2 comments
  • Confirmed
  • 14 Jan 2016
Technical level: Intermediate

Sushrut Bidwai

Rejuvenate our cities

Find practical solutions to some of the difficult questions our cities are facing more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 14 Jan 2016
Technical level: Beginner

Jasmine Jhaveri

Good Morning Design. Good Morning Life! 'Design' each day and make it count.

I would like to re- introduce DESIGN as a ‘concept’, as a game changer in our mundane lives and inject a bit of adventure, humour and joie d’vivre in all that we do. more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 15 Jan 2016
Technical level: Beginner

aditi bhalerao

Inside-out

Relating a persons visual identity to the branding of thier profession, product,service or simply for the sake of remembering the face. more
  • 0 comments
  • Rejected
  • 15 Jan 2016
Technical level: Intermediate

Dharmesh Ba

'Make the blue more blueeeeee' - Feedback on feedbacks

Designers, at the current moment are both fortunate and unfortunate at the same time. Fortunate, because design is being recognised. Unfortunate, because design is being recognised for wrong reasons. I shall share some of my experiences in design receiving feedback from 3 different product startups, I have worked with before. Extending that, I shall share my thoughts on how a clever feedback and … more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed
  • 17 Jan 2016
Technical level: Beginner

Nishita Gill Proposing

Original stained glass (Tiffany-style) in India by Saarus Nirhali

To classify and re-introduce this European art which is restricted only to the old churches built by the British and Portugese. more
  • 0 comments
  • Confirmed
  • 06 Feb 2016
Technical level: Intermediate

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#The Goa Project Funnel The Goa Project is an unconference - where unlike a typical conference, the talks are not put together by a panel or knowledge partner - but is proposed by the attendees themselves. You propose a session or talk that might be of interest to the audience at the unconference, … more