3rd - 7th November 2009
Mumbai, India

In a Planet of Our Own
- a vision of sustainability and design from across six continents

(Green issues from carbon footprints to eco-printing)

Design areas being addressed:
Culture and Sustainability
Identity and Sustainability
Design and Sustainability
Product Life Cycle
Green Design
Waste
Energy
Water
Storytelling, Myths and Legends
Creative Strategies
Design Curriculum
Corporate design strategies
Everyday Life and Sustainability
Sustainability management

Design issues being Addressed:
Vernacular design language
Cross-cultural design
Sustainability as creator of value for business
Design and globalization
Indigenous design networks
Design sustainability

Grandmasters, Speakers and Workshop Leaders:

Sustainability and design from around the world:


Anne Dutlinger (USA)
- Trash, Desire, and Consequences: Can Design Save the World?
(Sustainability and Design Education)

Brenda Sanderson (Canada)
- Looking beyond posters to understand communications as an agent of change
(Sustainability and Poster Design)

Bruno Temer, Partner FIBRA Sustainable Design (Brazil)
- Natural fibers and plastic bottles: reuse, reduce, recycle to meet the traditional crafts
(Sustainability and Recycling)

Cintya Concari (Italy)
- Ways to prevent a waterwar – the H2O project
(Sustainability and Natural Resource)

David Berman (Canada)
- Design gaps and challenges in a sustainability-challenged world – the role of design in shaping products, services, environments
(Sustainability and Product Design)

Debera Johnson (USA)
- Incubator for Sustainable Innovation
(Sustainability, Design and Enterprise)

Farid Esmaeil (UAE)
- Applying the elements of Nature in desert architecture and space – the Dubailand Project
(Sustainability and Architecture)

Halim Chouery (Lebanon)
- Pushing cross-cultural boundaries to build typographies that read well across cultural contexts and long lasting across time:
(Sustainability and Typography)

Iko Avital (Israel)
- A culture’s ability to preserve its values, visual language, sounds, stories and traditions: the story of an ancient migrant African community in Israel
(Sustainability and Cultural Design)

Joachim Krausse (Germany)
- Sustainability’s lessons in design from the vision and works of Buckminster Fuller
(Sustainability and Innovative Design Systems)

Katell Gelebart (New Zealand - France)
Installation - a show case of eco design household items
(Sustainability and Reuse)

Mervyn Kurlansky (Denmark)
- Pentagram and After: its role in promoting design sustainability
(Sustainability and Design)

Peter Perstel (Austria)
- Using materials sustainably while designing products
(Sustainability and Materials)

Peter Stebbing (Germany)
- Schesiology: the study of relationships between components and entities
(Consequences and Sustainability)


Sustainability and design from India:

A G Rao (IIT Bombay)
- Leveraging industrial design to recharge craft-based ecosystems:
(Sustainability, Industrial Design and Crafts)

Anil Gupta (IIM Ahmedabad, Honeybee Project)
- Innovations on the Ground: Networking the benefits from People to People
(Sustainability and Innovation)

Ashok Jhunjhunwala (IIT Madras)
- how ICT (information communications technology) works for the common man on the ground:
(Sustainability and Technology)

Anil Laul, Anangpur Experiment
Sustainability of the built environment derived from traditional principles
(Sustainability and Built Environment)

B V Doshi (Ahmedabad)

Dashrath Patel (Alibaug)

Dunu Roy (Hazard Centre, Delhi)
- Building sustainable economic systems on the ground to reduce hazards:
(Sustainability and Hazard)

Pralad Kakkar, Head, Genesis Films, Mumbai
- Escaping a tortured world to the deep sea environment of Lakshadweep: what can we learn from these depths?
(Sustainability and Nature)

Sudarshan Dheer (Mumbai)

Suresh Sethi (Singapore)
- Green packaging with the perception of taste and form - in search of new and meaningful ways of consumption
(Sustainability and Products)

Unmesh Kulkarni, Philips India
- Philanthropy by Design: Design of Low Smoke Biomass Stove
(Sustainability and Products)

Vinod Raina, Eklavya experiment
- Defining the Happiness Index - by material commodities or by human capabilities?
(Sustainability and Quality of Life)

Professor Anne Dutlinger
(USA)
- Trash, Desire, and Consequences: Can Design Save the World?
(Sustainability and Design Education)

Professor Anne Dutlinger is an Associate Professor at Moravian College, in Bethehem, Pennsylvania, USA, where she directs the program of study in Graphic and Information Design and serves as Chair of the Art Department. Her work as a graphic designer, artist, and writer has focused on art, culture, and issues of social responsibility. Her design expertise includes typography, design history, and publication design - areas that contribute to her presentations of her research as exhibitions and books - "Art, Music and Education as Strategies for Survival: Theresienstadt 1941-45" and Facing Race: Portraits of 21st Americans." Dutlinger also teaches an upper-level writing-intensive course called "Artists as Activists". designated as a course under the rubric "Moral Life" at Moravian College.

Brenda Sanderson
(Canada)
- Looking beyond posters to understand communications as an agent of change
(Sustainability and Poster Design)

As Managing Director of Icograda, Brenda oversees the international Council's programming and activities, builds strategic partnerships that further Icograda's objectives and works closely with the Executive Board in the development of Icograda's policies and best practices. It is notable in the context of the present event, Icograda's membership will consider the adoption of a framework for sustainable practice at the General Assembly 23 in Beijing, China.

Brenda studied photography, design, English and Art History before pursuing a multidisciplinary graduate programme at St. Mary's University, exploring the links between creative communities, politics and economic development. Prior to joining Icograda in 2005, Brenda worked as a creative director and designer for Colour (CCL), one of Canada's leading integrated communications agencies.

Brenda is a long standing professional member of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC). She crafted the agreement which binds a diverse group of chapters into a national council, served as the national Membership Vice President, and led the Atlantic Chapter's accreditation initiative.

Cintya Concari
(Italy)
- Ways to prevent a waterwar – the H2O project
(Sustainability and Natural Resource)

Cintya did her bachelor in jurisprudence all' University of Genoa.

After a period of professional activity, she is dedicated to the development of echo-sustainable plans that put into effect itself between the Policlinico of Milan and to the planning and restructure of some pavilions dell' Greater hospital .

She is adviser for various publishing groups: Area Group, Weekend, the sun 24 hours, On Air.

She is the president of the non-profit organization H2O.

David Berman
(Canada)
- Design gaps and challenges in a sustainability-challenged world – the role of design in shaping products, services, environments
(Sustainability and Product Design)

David Berman has over 20 years of experience in graphic design and communications and has worked extensively in the adaptation of printed materials for electronic distribution, including Web design and software interface development. As an expert speaker, graphic designer, communications strategist, public speaker, typographer and consultant, his professional work has brought him to over 10 countries in the past few years. His clients include IBM, the International Space Station, the Canadian Government, the World Bank, and the Aga Khan Foundation. David's work includes award-winning projects in the application of plain writing and design.

David has worked to establish a code of ethics that embraces social responsibility for graphic designers throughout Canada. The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada ratified his draft nationally in May 2000. He served as President of the first elected board of the Association of Graphic Designers of Ontario, North America's first accredited graphic design organization, from 1997 to 1999. He led the development of the association's General Bylaw and Rules of Professional Conduct and authored Ontario's accreditation examination section on ethics and professional responsibility. He has served as the National Ethics Chair for Graphic Design in Canada since 2002.

Debera Johnson
(USA)
-Incubator for Sustainable Innovation
(Sustainability, Design and Enterprise)

Debera Johnson, is the Director of the Pratt Design Incubator Sustainable/Social Enterprise. She served as chair of the Industrial Design program at Pratt Institute from 1997-2005. She founded the Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable/Social Enterprise in 2005. The incubator sponsors environmental, social and cultural initiatives and brings together people who share a common goal – linking social entrepreneurship with design. The incubator is a creative collective of designers, artists, engineers, strategic planners, researchers, and business people working together on a diverse range of products, services and events that reflect the values of its members.

Debera is currently the Chair of the NYC chapter of the Industrial Designers Society of America and has also served the IDSA as the Northeast District educational representative. She has produced numerous national and regional conferences, workshops and exhibitions. She is also president of Greenmatter, LLC, a shared creative work environment for designers, artists and architects located at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Deb is also tenured professor of Pratt Institute and teaches Thesis and Drawing in the graduate industrial design program.

Farid Esmaeil
(UAE)
-Elements of nature in architecturing Dubailand project
(Sustainability and Architecture)  

Farid Esmaeil is the founding partner of x-architects, a leading architecture and urban design practice in Dubai. He graduated from the American University of Sharjah (AUS) in 2003. His design work addresses issues of contemporary society, urban identity, and architecture. Farid has been the driving force in conceptual projects such as 'Xeritown' 60 hectare sustainable city in Dubai, and 'Al Nasseem' a 12 hectare community development in Al-Ain, amongst others.

Farid has lectured and exhibited work in various universities and institutions worldwide, including Venice Biennale 2008, AUS, Technical University [TU] Berlin, AIA Berlin 2002, and Archiprix international Architecture thesis program. His design work has won numerous awards including the regional Holcim Award 2008, and cityscape awards 2008 Dubai. He has contributed to Al Manakh, Architecture+, Art and Architecture and numerous other publications. Farid is also founding member of Architecture Association in UAE and currently serving in its board of directors.

Halim Choueiry
(Lebanon)
-Typography’s sustainable existence inside cultural influx – the story of Arabic Type
(Sustainability and Typography)  

Professor Halim Choueiry is a design educator and practitioner based in Qatar. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Having obtained a Bachelor's and two Master's degrees, he is undertaking a PhD in Design at Brighton University in the United Kingdom. Halim also runs his own design studio, Cinnamon, which specializes in cultural patterning identification, visual development of bilingual corporate identities, and the simultaneous typographic representation of Latin-based languages and Arabic.

Iko Avital
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
- A culture’s ability to preserve its values, visual language, sounds, stories and traditions: the story of an ancient migrant African community in Israel
(Sustainability and Cultural Design)

Iko Avital is a graduate of the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in Jerusalem. Iko majored in Graphic Design and went on to graduate in an M.A. from Boston, US and a Ph.D. (UKF, SK) in the area of Creativity.

Iko has served as a faculty member of the Holon Institute of Technology, Israel, for over 25 years, as well as the head of the VCD department (1994-2000) He is now the Head of Design Studies, Sami Shamoon Engineering College, Beer-Sheva. As part of his design foundation teaching, he has developed a holistic method, which empowers the use of authentic resources of creativity in students.

He is also the Principal of Avital Designers Group, Ra’anana.

Joachim Krausse
(Germany)
- Sustainability’s lessons in design from the vision and works of Buckminster Fuller
(Sustainability and Innovative Design Systems)

Joachim Krausse graduated in philosophy, literature and sociology in Berlin and received his PhD from the University of Bremen and is professor of design theory at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences,Dessau.

He has curated exhibitions, directed television documentaries on housing and living for the German television(wdr) and published widely on theory and history of architecture, design and technical culture. He has edited several books of Buckminster Fuller‘s writings and co-curated the inter-national exhibition “Your Private Sky – R. Buckminster Fuller”, and is a collaborator of the architectural magazine archplus.

Katell Gelebart
(Newzealand-France-India)
- Installation - a show case of eco design household items

Where ever she is in the world, be it New Zealand, India, the Netherlands, or her native France, her creative energies go toward addressing this growing problem of enormous amounts of packaging that are being discarded every day.

As an "eco-designer" she creates exclusively with used and discarded materials such as inner tubes, blankets or towels. Lately shehas focussed her attention on food packaging which is ubiquitous and contains great potential for re-use. This particular packaging has wonderful aesthetic qualities in its graphics, colour and display of language through text.
Its delicateness however, has meant the works that were previously robust have become light and metaphors for a world of re-use. The pieces she creates are inspirational. They hint at a world after waste.

Gabriel Patrocinio
(Brazil)
- sustainability design in Brazil

Former Director (2004/2008) and Vice-Director (2000/2004) of ESDI, the School of Design from the University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; during his last term, ESDI was awarded with an IF Gold in 2005, was invited to take part in the Salone Satellite 2006 in Milano, was invited to take part at Microsoft Research Design Expo in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 and Yahoo Design Expo 2006, was appointed as the best design school in Brazil through a test applied by the Ministry of Education in 2006 and finally was, in 2007, appointed one of the best design schools in the world by Business Week magazine.

Adviser at the Design Advisory Council from the Secretary of Economical Development of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (since 2007); there he helped organize the Rio+Design 2008, a series of events in the City of Rio during the month of September of 2008; took part on the coordination committee of Brazil Design Week 2008 and organized the International Forum to discuss public policies of design with guests from the UK, Korea, Spain and Brazil.

Design Expert in Intellectual & Industrial Property issues, producing technical advice reports and doing consultation either for courts, patent offices or companies (since 1998)
Gabriel Patrocinio’s Specialties:
Design education management; design policies planning and management; design patents consultant and IPR legal expert (product and industrial design, trade marks, visual identity, branding, packaging)

Mervyn Kurlansky
(Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Pentagram and After: its role in promoting design sustainability
(Sustainability and Design)

Mervyn Kurlansky was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1936. He trained in London at the Central School of Art and Design and then freelanced before becoming Graphics Director of Planning Unit, the design consultancy service of Knoll International. In 1969 he joined Crosby/Fletcher/Forbes and in 1972 co-founded Pentagram from which he resigned in 1993 to live and work in Denmark.

His clients have included multinational corporations, cultural establishments and educational institutions throughout the world. He has won a number of important awards, including a bronze medal from the Brno Biennale of Graphic Design, a gold award from the Package Designers Council, silver awards from the Designers and Art Directors Association, a silver award from the New York Art Directors Club, a gold award from Japan's Minister of Trade and Industry, the Gustav Klimt prize 1995 and the Danish IG design prize 1996.

His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and has been featured in several publications and exhibitions worldwide. He conceived and designed the book Watching My Name Go By, a celebration of New York's colourful graffiti. He was also a co-author of four books about Pentagram.

Peter Perstel
(Austria)
- Using materials sustainably while designing products
(Sustainability and Materials)

Peter Perstel is part of the research team  in Kingston University doing the project ‘Creative Resource’. He has a MA degree in Product and Spacial Design. In his final master project he carried out research into waste management and investigated applications for bio polymers and biodegradable plastics.

He is part of the team that is responsible for material research, promotion and data management of the Creative Resource. He has played a large part in evolution of the Creative Resource into a solid Sustainable Materials Library through sourcing materials, updating current files and delivering more information on each material than was seen on the previous database. They have also guided a major update of the Rematerialize web site.

Alongside their continual work at the Creative Resource, Peter has also established Credo Design, a sustainable design consultancy that focuses on the development and promotion sustainable products. www.credodesign.co.uk

Peter Stebbing
(Germany)
- Schesiology: the study of relationships between components and entities
(Consequences and Sustainability)

Peter Stebbing studied zoology prior to qualifying as a biological illustrator at Hornsey College of Art in 1971. After Hornsey he immediately went freelance and shared a joint biological illustration practice in London up until his appointment in Germany in 1987. Peter has worked on a wide range of biological illustration commissions ranging from biology teaching aids to accurate scientific illustrations for zoological papers to children"s books for a variety of clients.

In 1987 he took up his current post at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Schwäbisch Gmünd where he now teaches analytical drawing and creative visualising. In 1989 he was a founding member of the Academy für Gestaltung im Handwork, Ulm, for which he wrote the teaching program.

His early scientific education has substantially influenced his approach to design education. Since 1984 he has intensively researched and been fascinated by the basics of visual composition and the universal constants of human visual expression which he proposes have provided a grammar of visual organisation. Peter has published a number of peer reviewed papers, developed and taught a teaching program and run workshops on this organisational grammar.

Peter Stebbing is the ERASMUS coordinator at the Hochschule für Gestaltung since 1990 and runs workshops in both drawing, visualising and visual composition in design schools in London, Helsinki, Graz, Milan, Budapest, Kuopio, etc.

Professor A G Rao
(IDC, IIT Bombay, India)
- Leveraging industrial design to recharge craft-based ecosystems:
(Sustainability, Industrial Design and Crafts)

Professor Ra is a senior faculty at the Industrial Design Centrex at IIT Bombay. His areas of interest are in Bamboo crafts, Creativity and problem solving, Basic Design and Product Design.

He established the Bamboo research and development labs at IDC, IIT Bombay. Some of the work involves development of tools for the bamboo craftsmen, research into natural finishes in bamboo, design of products using bamboo and conducting training workshops for bamboo craftsmen.

Professor Anil Gupta
(Ahmedabad, India)
- Innovations on the Ground: Networking the benefits from People to People
(Sustainability and Innovation)

Anil K. Gupta is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and
Co-ordinator, SRISTI and Honey Bee Network, and , Executive Vice Chair, National Innovation Foundation .

He established Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI) and Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network (GIAN), two NGOs, respectively to support the Honey Bee Network and to scale up and convert grassroots innovations into viable products. Has also helped set up the NIF (National Innovation Foundation) by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, to help India become an inventive and creative society and a global leader in sustainable technologies.

His Mission is to demonstrate the potential of knowledge rich economically poor people in taking developing societies out of the morass of mediocrity and lead these on to a path of sustainable progress.

Professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala
(IIT Madras, India)
- how ICT (information communications technology) works for the common man on the ground:
(Sustainability and Technology)

Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala is Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India and was department Chair till recently. He received his B.Tech degree from IIT, Kanpur, and his MS and Ph.D degrees from the University of Maine. From 1979 to 1981, he was with Washington State University as Assistant Professor. Since 1981, he has been teaching at IIT, Madras.

Dr.Jhunjhunwala leads the Telecommunications and Computer Networks group (TeNeT) at IIT Madras. This group is closely working with industry in the development of a number of Telecommunications and Computer Network Systems. TeNeT group has incubated a number of technology companies which work in partnership with TeNeT group to develop world class Telecom and Banking products for Rural Markets.

Dr. Ashok Jhunjhunwala has been awarded Padma Shri in the year 2002. He has been awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Award in 1998, Dr.Vikram Sarabhai Research Award for the year 1997, Millennium Medal at Indian Science Congress in the year 2000 and H. K. Firodia for "Excellence in Science & Technology" for the year 2002, Shri Om Prakash Bhasin Foundation Award for Science & Technology for the year 2004, Awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Lecture Award by INSA for the year 2006 and IBM Innovation and Leadership Forum Award by IBM for the year 2006. He is a Fellow of INAE, IAS, INSA and NAS.

Dr. Jhunjhunwala is a Director in the Board of SBI. He is also a Board member of several companies in India, including TTML, BEL, Polaris, 3i Infotech, Sasken, Tejas, NRDC, and IDRBT. He is member of Prime Minister's Setup Scientific Advisory Committee

Professor Anil Laul
(New Delhi, India)
- Sustainability of the built environment derived from traditional principles
(Sustainability and Built Environment)

As an Architect Anil Laul pioneered the Building Centre Program in India and now has established Entrepreneur Building Centre at Anangpur and has been involved with pioneering work in the field of Appropriate Technologies for three decades. The Centre has been the forerunner of the Building Centre movement in India. The issues it addresses are right from the Brick as a basic element in building and its appropriateness to high-end technology structures such as Space Frames and Geodesics.

The blocks, an amalgam of traditional wisdom with present day technologies, were primarily designed for the earthquake-affected region of Gujarat, India. Interlocking Blocks were listed as one of the six best products for the year 2001 by the Design Sense Museum, London and nominated as 'Stockholm Partners' for the year 2002 for 'Earthquake Resistant Housing'. The structures built in Gujarat post earthquake received a Certificate of Commendation from the President of India.

The simplification of complex jointing systems for space frames and geodesic domes are among the centre’s high-tech developments. All the technologies developed at this Centre are based on the Integration of the Architect, Engineer, Artist and the Artisan.

Dr. B V Doshi
(Ahmedabad, India)
- sustainability and built space

Dr Balkrishna Doshi, a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Architects was born in Pune in 1927. After initial study at the J J School of Architecture, Bombay, he worked for four years with Le Corbusier as senior designer (1951-54) in Paris and four more years in India to supervise his projects in Ahmedabad. His office Vastu-Shilpa (environmental design) was established in 1955.

Dr. Doshi has been a member of the jury for several international and national competitions including the Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts and Aga Khan Award for Architecture. Apart from his international fame as an architect, Dr Doshi is equally known as educator and institution builder. He has been the founder-Director of School of Architecture, Ahmedabad (1962-72), founder Director of School of Planning (1972-79), founder dean of Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (1972-81), founder member of Visual Arts Centre, Ahmedabad and first founder Director of Kanoria Centre for Arts, Ahmedabad. Dr Doshi has been instrumental in establishing the internationally known research institute Vastu-Shilpa Foundation for Studies and Research in Environmental Design. The institute has done pioneering work in low cost housing and city planning. As an academician, Dr Doshi has been visiting the U.S.A. and Europe since 1958 and has held important chairs in American Universities.

In 1976, the Government of India awarded Doshi with the Padma Shri, a national civilian honour.
(Wikipedia)

Dashrath Patel
(Ahmedabad, India)

Dashrath Patel, a leading Indian artist and designer, has worked and moved among
some of the 'giants' of contemporary art. He was first given a camera by
Henri-Cartier Bresson, studied architecture with Buckminster Fuller,
worked musically with John Cage and worked in design and design-education
with Charles and Ray Eames, to name but a few. He was part of the faculty who established theNational Institute of Design in Ahmedabad . He spent 19 years at NID during which time he designed and coordinated a series of Festivals of India. These were large-scale exhibition installations aimed at projecting India's profile abroad. Patel then went to Sewapuri, which is a rural design school based upon Gandhian principles, where he

Dunu Roy
(Delhi, India)
- Building sustainable economic systems on the ground to reduce hazards:
(Sustainability and Hazard)

Anubrotto Kumar Roy popularly known as Dunu Roy obtained a B.Tech in the year 1967 and an M.Tech. in the year 1969 from the Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay. He is also the recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Bombay in the year 2000.

Dunu Roy devoted over four decades in the field of rural development. A chemical engineer, he provided technical expertise to rural communities, carried out prolonged experiment in environmental planning and now provides succor to those who became victims of Delhi's hazardous life. Even while at IIT, Dunu and a group of fellow-students were engaged in trying to assess how their knowledge could help in solving problems of the poor.

He runs an institution with likeminded persons and the organization itself has been named the 'Hazard Centre'. The institute's core team comprises ten dedicated researchers and as many as 50 professionals, some of them well-known in their fields. They provide free service to the victims and needy and hail from such diverse disciplines as public health, environment impact, pollution control and urban architecture.

Sudarshan Dheer
(Mumbai, India)

Sudarshan Dheer is the well known, prolific and outstanding graphic designer from India. He established his own design workshop Graphic Communication Concepts in 1973 to specialise in corporate communication projects on: Corporate Identity Programmes, Corporate Literature, Corporate Packaging and Signage Systems. Sudarshan Dheer is the editor of the book ‘Symbols, Logos ’. He has several international and national awards for his work and achievements.

Suresh Sethi
(Singapore)
- Green packaging with the perception of taste and form - in search of new and meaningful ways of consumption
(Sustainability and Products)

Suresh Sethi is a Product Designer and his Area of Expertise is Industrial \ Product Design in Mass Manufacturing, Lighting Design, Design of Luxury Products and Environments, Retail and Exhibition Design.

He has been working on Lighting design for many years apart from his professional work mainly products in consumer electronics and home appliances. His work has been produced in many countries and his designs have had successful re-runs in various parts of the world.

He has many facets, apart from doing mass produced product design he has design custom built luxury yachts and has worked with Organic Architect and Indian Master Craftsmen for many years. He is also an artist and has been part of many International Art festivals and exhibitions.

Suresh has been a visiting professor and has led many workshops and seminars at the leading Design Schools in India and abroad. He is now with the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in the School of Art, Design and Media.

Unmesh Kulkarni
(Delhi, India)
- Philanthropy by Design: Design of Low Smoke Biomass Stove
(Sustainability and Products)

Unmesh Kulkarni holds degree in product design from Industrial Design Centre at IIT, Mumbai. In his current role as Senior Design Manager, at Philips Design, he is responsible for the design strategy, innovation and service development for Healthcare, Lifestyle and Lighting sectors of Philips in India. Unmesh has lead design on strategic projects for Philips’ global initiative new business and strategy for emerging markets. He is part of Philips Design’s global creative platform for sustainable design.

Prior to Philips Design, Unmesh ran design consultancy for corporate and NGOs focusing on design and innovation for FMCG, consumer products, telecom products, medical and industrial equipment. He worked with NGOs and government agencies, on appropriate technology, livelihood development, craft rejuvenation and communication projects.

Vinod Raina
(Delhi, India)
- Defining the Happiness Index - by material commodities or by human capabilities?
(Sustainability and Quality of Life)

A physicist by profession, Vinod is one of the pioneers of the People’s Science Movement in India, having helped set up the All-India People’s Science Network (AIPSN) and the Bharat Gyan Vigyan Samiti (BGVS). He is a founding member of Eklavya, an organization advocating alternative education for more than two decades, and the only NGO whose curriculum was
adopted in the state school educational system.

He resigned from his job in Delhi University to devote full time to grassroots work. He has been a Homi Bhabha Fellow, a Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, and an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Science Writers Association.

Vinod was the Asia Leadership Fellow (Japan) in 2002. Vinod has researched and written extensively on the interphase of Science, Environment and Development. He is also the Chair of the Asia-Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), and an International Council member of the World Social Forum.

His involvement with ARENA began after the Bhopal Gas Disaster and the anti-Narmada dams campaign. As a Board member, he helped conceptualise the Victims of Development project and co-edited the subsequent volume The Dispossessed. He is the convener of the ARENA programme on Environmental Security.