Unboxing UnBox

UnBoxing India

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:05:47 +0530

UnBoxing India:

Parmesh Sahani on art & design in India; and in particular, his experience at UnBox

Crafting Authenticity at UnBox

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:00:05 +0530

Crafting Authenticity at UnBox:

Tanvi Kant, recounts her experience as an UnBox 2012 Fellow.

Un-Boxing Cross cultural differences

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:00:05 +0530

Un-Boxing Cross cultural differences:

STBY on a workshop they conducted at UnBox 2012

Social Innovation and Design Thinking

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:43:50 +0530

Social Innovation and Design Thinking:

“Design thinking, which encourages consideration of a wide array of solutions, can be applied in the field, and used incrementally, is an important tool for social innovators. It approaches problem solving from the point of view of the end user and calls for developing a deep understanding of unmeet needs, thus avoiding the pitfall of imposing the wrong solution on a community.”

Snapshots of the Future

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 11:06:42 +0530

Snapshots of the Future:

Lousie Clement’s Photojournal from UnBox 2012

Tales in Ink at UnBox

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:01:06 +0530

Tales in Ink at UnBox:

Life, in drawings, except this time, for UnBox 2012. Interaction design for action at the intersections!

Deconstructing Food at UnBox

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 11:01:06 +0530

Deconstructing Food at UnBox:

The platform blog uncovers a Partner Festival ~ FoodLab, at UnBox 2012

UnBox V.2

Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:01:05 +0530

UnBox V.2:

The Designwala blog also covered UnBox 2012. Big up to Ria Rajan for all her help in documenting the festival~

Recruiting Festival Director

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:01:06 +0530

Recruiting Festival Director:

UnBox is looking for a festival director to anchor the processes that will go into putting UnBox 2013 together, along with management and conceptualization of the festival itself. Those interested, look up deets here. APPLY! APPLY! APPLY! and SHARE.

The UnBox Diaries

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 10:15:00 +0530

The UnBox Diaries:

Turmeric Design created an art(work) diary inspired by the festival. These images and doodles were all made live, as the conference was on going! Water colours, and calligraphy for the win!

Jaaga Curates? UnBox Festival 2012

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 11:01:06 +0530

Jaaga Curates? UnBox Festival 2012

Coverage on UnBox by Perch

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 11:01:05 +0530

Coverage on UnBox by Perch

UnBox 2012 + Hendzel and Hunt. Woot Woot.

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:44:50 +0530

UnBox 2012 + Hendzel and Hunt. Woot Woot.

Art-iculating a vision for India

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 09:43:55 +0530

Art-iculating a vision for India:

A design report by Mayank Mansingh Kaul on UnBox 2012

Antariksha Sanchar: UnBox 2012 Closing CeremonyPictures by...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:39:00 +0530

Antariksha Sanchar: UnBox 2012 Closing Ceremony

Pictures by Lucida (many many more available soon!)

Blow Up! in the park, at Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi on 5th...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:33:17 +0530

Blow Up! in the park, at Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi on 5th February, 2012

BlowUp was a partner festival of UnBox.

Get the Poo in the Loo

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:42:47 +0530

Voices : Thorsten Kiefer (Wash United)

Given the big issue of sanitation faced by India, Thorsten Kiefer’s talk threw light on how to use sport and harness the power of sports-stars to reach people, provide positive influences and change habits of sanitation and hygiene (which is the campaign mantra of the work Wash United does in India). “Building toilets doesn’t necessarily translate to using toilets” said Kiefer, emphasizing on the need to understand what poor people want from the toilets in their homes (the function, the location, the facilities etc.) in order to enable successful adoption of its use.

Directors of Information

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:37:42 +0530

Voices : Daniel Joachim Christian Gross & Joris Maltha (Catalogtree)

Highly inspired by the organisational techniques of Stanley Kubrick on the sets of Sparticus, where the famed director allotted each extra on the set with a number to ease the process of direction. The Catalogtree duo talked about the role of a designer as a Director of Information. Their presentation toyed with the idea of how things design themselves and the importance of facilitation the starting point of an evolution where information can picture itself. Most crucially, as a designer one can create and define a system in which patterns can be perceived, understood and evolve naturally.

Thank You, Thanks, Thanks very much, Thank you again

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:32:26 +0530

Voices: Merel Snel & Loes Verstappen (75B)

75B, a design studio based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, has been described as embodying the main characteristics of modern Dutch design: “conceptual, simple, no-nonsense, ironical and tongue-in-cheek” Their presentation at Unbox highlighted the ability and the importance of designers to strike a balance between creative freedom and client demands. Unlike artists, designers are some times limited in the expression of their work because they also have to cater to what the client wants. It thus becomes essential to find ways by which one can infuse a sense of freedom and play into one’s work, to foster the creative process - which studio 75B consistently strives to achieve.

A Small Hole in a Busy Market

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:27:56 +0530

Panel: Parmesh Shahani (Godrej-India Culture Lab), Archana Prasad (Jaaga) and Richard Van der Laken & Pepijn Zurburg (What Design Can Do)

Centered around questioning and understanding the clear definition of the term ‘curation’, the panel discussed if there was an ideology with which each of them curated their work. In the current climate of emerging subcultures, is a part of curation just editing and distilling the multiple processes they are exposed to? In other words, the panel reflected on whether curation was a form of authorship, or agency.