Past events
For five years, we’ve been nurturing and championing India’s best emerging entrepreneurs in design and fashion, and connecting them with the UK through networking, mutual learning, and showcase opportunities such as the fashion shows at the Southbank Centre’s Alchemy Festival. That sector development continues in 2011-12 with the next edition of the Unbox Festival, and dialogues on design education.
We’re also at the early stage of broadening our relationship with the design sector from 2012 onwards, from surveying the needs of design education to fostering multinational collaboration, and from debating design policy to sharing the ideas that could shape the 21st century: and we’re looking for collaborators to join us on a journey of design discovery.
Past Events
UNBOX FESTIVAL & FELLOWSHIP
2 – 5 February 2012
British Council, Delhi
The UNBOX Conference
The UnBox festival builds momentum around design thinking and interdisciplinary collaborations to drive sustainable innovation for businesses, society and culture in India. Powered by invention, fostered by enterprise, and inviting the engagement of all the senses: Unbox 2012 will delve deep into the possibilities of collaboration, combining conference, workshops, exhibitions and performances to stimulate thought, debate, and action.
Find out more here.
UNBOX Fellowships
UnBox fellowships provide an opportunity to travel and work across a diverse selection of projects hosted in different parts of India. We have selected nine innovative, multidisciplinary UK entrepreneurs to embark on this fascinating journey.
Some of the selected projects for 2012 include understanding sustainable lifestyles in Auroville, collaborating with craft groups in Rajasthan, and sourcing new fashion inspirations in the local textile traditions of Kutch - each one anchored at the various intersections betwen design, development, technology and entrepreneurship.
The projects are designed to inspire and inform participants about the power of interdisciplinary thought and action and give a window into the complex and challenging landscape of India. Fellows will be sharing their experiences both online via the fellowship blogs and through workshops and exhibitions at the UnBox Festival, providing an avenue to continue the conversations within the larger community.
The nine UK fellows will be working with multi-disciplinary groups to collaborate, reflect and work on projects while immersed in real-life contexts.
You can find out more about the selected fellows below and follow their progress here.
Louise Clements: BlowUp
Paul Drury: Digital Activism
Ryan Bowman: Hacking for Governance
Karen Smithson: Livelihoods for Children
Elizabeth Laskar: Sustainable Fashion
Menka Sanghvi: Sustainable Lifestyles
Darren Bolton and Trevor Blackman: The Great WASH Yatra
Tanvi Kant: The Green Room
Designing better designers
25 February 2012
British Council, New Delhi
in association with RSA in India
supported by Sushant School of Design, University of Arts, London and Home Trends
featuring
Andrew Summers, Chairman, Design Partners
Penny Egan, Executive Director, U.K. Fulbright Commission
Bob Masterton, Director, International Centre, UAL
Indian Design Education and where is it headed?
Brainstorming session for deans and senior educators
10:00 am – 1 pm
The design education industry in India is suddenly booming but seems to lack vision and infrastructure. What are the large gaps and how can the design educators gain from European design schools? What are possible ways of collaborating and sharing knowledge? What are the needs of the Indian industry? How does one fill the lack of qualified design educators? How do we ensure that design graduates are industry and future ready?
What is design and how it can change your life!
Hands on workshop for school children
11 am - 4 pm, Charbagh
Registrations through schools
Hands on workshop for potential design students
Open to school students between 14 - 16, the workshop will aim to open their minds to the power of creation. The workshop will culminate in an exhibition.
What you wish was taught in design schools!
Series on panel discussions for design teachers and design learners
2 pm – 5 pm,
An open series of presentations in the theatre that focuses on value of creative industries and power of design. Encouraging students and teachers to discuss issues in design education and critically examine how design education can be better designed
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