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SYNCHRONISATIONS was an international think tank probing the future of art and design academies and hosted by the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology from March 21-April 4 at Vishtar, an artists’ village on the outskirts of Bangalore.
“Synchronisations” is the first major event of Future Academy, an international research collective that includes art colleges in the United Kingdom and experimental studio labs and architectural foundations in Bangalore, Mumbai and Dakar, Senegal.
Ms Geetha Narayanan, Director, Srishti is the Project Director and Research Scholar for “Synchronisations” and Dr Clementine Deliss, a Paris-based artist, was the curator. >>more
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Khoj
International Artists Association, New Delhi, an artist-led,
autonomous and open-ended umbrella organization, registered as a society
in 1997, organized a high profile international event - KHOJ 2003, in
Bangalore with the active participation of the local artist community
with support from Srishti school of Art, Design and Technology.
KHOJ in Bangalore for the first time…
Building
on the success of KHOJ 2002 in Mysore (the first KHOJ event in the south),
the artist community of Bangalore once again took on the initiative
to organise KHOJ 2003. This seventh international KHOJ event in India
was held for the first time in Bangalore. It brought twenty-four immensely
talented mid career artists from across India and other countries to
work together and produce innovative and creative works of art in various
media. This two week workshop of artistic and cultural exchange among
the international and the Indian artists, working together on a single
platform to produce works of art and conducting outreach programs in
local communities, culminated in an Open Day exhibition of the creative
works of art, with special viewings for the sponsors and the general
public of Bangalore.
The Visual
Art scene and artists of the 1990s in Karnataka have begun to capture
the attention of the leading art historians, critics and connoisseurs
of art worldwide. With the successful culmination of KHOJ 2003 and the
publicity that was gained from such a high profile event, the city of
Bangalore received greater recognition not only for its prominence in
the IT arena and its excellent educational facilities, but also by making
its mark on the International Arts and Cultural Scene.
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dyd
02
The 2nd International Conference on Open Collaborative Design
for Sustainable Innovation was hosted by Srishti in Bangalore at the
Infosys campus from December 1 to 2, 2002. “dyd02”examined
issues of innovation and collaboration in the context of control and
culture to arrive at directions that are coherent and meaningful for
development – urban and rural. The conference showcased innovative
ideas and successful projects in design, change and technology and through
a critical examination of these concepts engaged in dialogues that will
result in the further development of these ideas. The conference was
sponsored by Media Lab Asia, Infosys Technologies, MIT/AGS, MIT Media
Lab, Indian Institute of Sciences, etc.
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Sunoh
Sunoh was the workshop organized in May 2002 as an integral
part of the Communication for Change course offered by the SCOM Lab.
Supported by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) and
Media Lab Asia, Sunoh offered a multidisciplinary platform for designers,
media professionals, NGOs, technologists and educators to come together.
Psychodynamic, scenario-building exercises were part of a process enabling
participants to recognize context, taboos and the problem-web. Engagement
with an issue within a design charette and its three mechanisms –
idea generation and knowledge transfer among affected parties, decision-making
requiring dialogue about emergent ideas and problem solving resulting
in recommendations and proposals as process outcomes - offered possibilities
of coming up with alternative models of communication to tackle HIV/AIDS.
The process also resulted in the creation of a short film titled “The
First Mile”.
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Aagaman
Aagaman was a workshop for stakeholders in the crafts
sector held at the Ecumenical Christian Centre, Banglaore, from May
9 to 13, 2002, as a component of the Design Lab. It targeted groups
of practitioners in the areas of craft design, heritage, technology
and craft training. The workshop focused on issues of design and sustainable
approaches to craft, and the challenge of using new technologies to
tackle the same. Aagaman was supported by IIT-Kanpur and Media Lab Asia.
At Srishti,
we believe that art and design provides a lens, which makes it possible
to go beyond looking to seeing, and beyond hearing to listening. It
also provides a framework for looking differently at issues that have
been part of our society for a long time.
Aagaman targets groups of practitioners in the areas of craft design,
heritage, technology and craft training. The workshop is centered on
the issue of design and sustainable approaches to craft, and the challenge
is to use new technologies to tackle this issue. Aagaman was held at
the Ecumenical Christian Centre, Bangalore between May 9-13, 2002.
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