11 episodes
Design Positive (D+ve) Karthi Subbaraman
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The what, the why and the how of design for positive transformation. Design as a discipline can uniquely impact the quality of lives around and can bring in amazing transformation especially in the the current unprecedented times we are living in right now. The idea is to consciously explore the notion of design beyond its conventional scape.
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E10 | More than Human
In our grand finale of Season 1, we speak to futurist Anab Jain. In this episode we speak about the complex challenges in our hands as designer. We discuss with Anab around human and more than human. Anab is a designer, filmmaker, and co-founder of Superflux, a critically acclaimed foresight, design and technology company in London working for clients like V&A, Google, UNDP and BBC. Anab’s work has won honours from Apple Computers Inc., UNESCO, Geneva Human Rights Festival, and TED. Her work has been featured on NPR Radio, BBC 4, CBC, New York Times, Evening Standard, and the Guardian, and exhibited MoMA New York, V&A Museum and National Museum of China amongst others. Anab is also Professor and Programme Leader for Design Investigations at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Her work can be found at www.superflux.in
You can follow Anab on twitter @anabjain
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The show is an initiative of The Internet & Mobile Association of India aka IAMAI, hosted by Karthi Subbaraman.
Connect with Karthi:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/karthi2209
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skarthi/
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E9 | Agency for Impact
In this episode we speak to Dhruv Saxena, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Obvious, a strategic product consultancy about agency culture, conscious choices, inclusion, design operations, balance between business & social impact and more. Dhruv shares his views and number of anecdotes from his experience building Obvious that partners with businesses to create digital experiences across a wide range of domains and industries. Since its inception, Obvious has helped create several of SE Asia's unicorn startups and worked with 120+ startups, established industry titans and Fortune 500 companies such as Flipkart, Go-Jek, Myntra, Swiggy, Wikipedia, xto10x and many more. Obvious is known for its play-books and design culture.
Dhruv holds an MFA from the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) as well as a Master in Industrial Design from the Indian Institute of Science (IISC). Previously, Dhruv focused on designing tangible interfaces through collaborations with designers and professors at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, MIT Media Lab and Stanford.
Connect with Dhruv
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhruvsaxena1/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dhruvsaxena_
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The show is an initiative of The Internet & Mobile Association of India aka IAMAI, hosted by Karthi Subbaraman.
Connect with Karthi:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/karthi2209
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skarthi/
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E8 | Behavioural Economics
In this episode we speak to Deepa Bachu, a design leadership veteran who has about two decades of industry experience in creating compelling global products. She started as a software engineer like most of us. She grew quickly to lead Innovation and Global Strategy for Intuit, India. Currently Deepa runs Pensaar Design which is a design strategy and consulting firm to help businesses co.create awesome, by design.
Deepa has created multiple global products, across multiple domains, across multiple platforms. Her passion is to transform customers’ lives by creating products that solve their biggest unmet needs.
Connect with Deepa
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepa-bachu-3b215/
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The show is an initiative of The Internet & Mobile Association of India aka IAMAI, hosted by Karthi Subbaraman.
Connect with Karthi:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/karthi2209
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skarthi/
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E7 | Design the Designer in you
In this episode we speak to Niyam Bhushan, an industry-pioneer and industry-veteran in various disciplines of Design. He is a successful entrepreneur with two businesses he set up early in his career. First venture at age 16 in digital publishing, with international clients, which he ran for 12 years. Second, as a value-added solutions provider with Apple in the 1990s. Checkout this TEDx talk on Design that changes the narrative of Design from India in the world
He is currently augmenting his large legacy and initiatives of Design, through his ‘Awaken Your Creativity’ workshops. These use Dance, Mindfulness, and Meditation techniques to unlock explosive creativity in participants.
Connect with Niyam
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niyam/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/niyambhushan
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The show is an initiative of The Internet & Mobile Association of India aka IAMAI, hosted by Karthi Subbaraman.
Connect with Karthi:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/karthi2209
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skarthi/
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E6 | Design for Social Impact
In this episode we speak to Unmesh Kulkarni, founder of Oceanic Circle, a human-centered platform for Social Innovation, about design for social impact, the business of social impact, accountability, risks, government intervention, measurements and more.
Before jumping into social entrepreneurship, Unmesh handled global and regional design leadership roles at Honeywell and Philips, working across continents, living in India and China, bringing solutions to global markets at scale. Prior to that, he cofounded a multi-disciplinary design consultancy and appropriate technology lab, Design Matters.
Connect with Unmesh : https://www.linkedin.com/in/kulkarniunmesh/
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The show is an initiative of The Internet & Mobile Association of India aka IAMAI, hosted by Karthi Subbaraman.
Connect with Karthi:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/karthi2209
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skarthi/
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05 | Design through the eyes of an Anthropologist
In this episode we speak to Deepa Reddy, a lead cultural anthropologist and a faculty at University of Houston. She has published on topics ranging from religious nationalism, caste and ethnicity, women's activism, bioethics and blood donation, and human-technology interactions. She leads a group called Shalikuta in a project documenting Indian heritage rices and she is leading The Asthma Files (a multi-city study on air quality and governance), Chennai chapter currently.
Connect with Deepa : https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepa-r-9a2bb113/
Deepa's Blog: paticheri.com
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The show is an initiative of The Internet & Mobile Association of India aka IAMAI, hosted by Karthi Subbaraman.
Connect with Karthi:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/karthi2209
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skarthi/
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/designpositive/message