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Design domains/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
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International Design Conference on Sustainability and Design:
6th and 7th of November 2009
Venue: IDC, IIT Bombay
Schedule Day 1:
Friday 6th of November 2009
8.30 – 9.50 Welcome tea and coffee
9.50 – 10.00 Introduction
10.00 – 10.45 Inaugural Keynote Address (Sustainability and Innovative Design Systems)
Germany Joachim Krausse, Professor, Anhalt University and Berlin University, and
principal researcher of Buckminster Fuller
- Sustainability’s lessons in design from the vision and works of Buckminster Fuller
10.45 – 11.00 Question and Answer Session
11.00 – 11.30 Tea Break
Session Chairman: Sudarshan Dheer
11.30 – 12.10 Designing from around the world 1 (Sustainability and Materials)
Austria Peter Perstel, Principal, Naked Consultancy SDMP Ltd. London – Vienna, and Faculty, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
- Using materials sustainably while designing products
12.10 – 12.50 Designing from around the world 2 (Sustainability, Design and Culture)
New Zealand Donna Campbell, Centre for Māori and Pacific Development Research
- Design’s role in sustaining indigenous communities
12.50 – 01.05 Question and Answer Session
1.05 – 2.45 Lunch and networking
2.45 – 3.30 Vision Talk 1 (Sustainability, Industrial Design and Crafts)
India A G Rao, Bamboo Studio, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB)
- Leveraging industrial design to recharge craft-based ecosystems:
3.30 – 4.10 Designing from around the world 3 (Sustainability and Cultural Design)
Israel Iko Avital, Head of Design Studies, Sami Shamoon Engineering College, Beer-
Sheva, and Principal, Avital Designers Group, Ra’anana
- A culture’s ability to preserve its values, visual language, sounds, stories and
traditions: the story of an ancient migrant African community in Israel
4.10 – 4.30 Question and Answer Session
4.30 – 4.55 Tea Break
Session Chairman: Professor Uday Athavankar
4.55 – 5.35 Designing from around the world 4 (Sustainability, Design and Enterprise)
USA Debera Johnson, Director of the Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable/Social Enterprise
- Incubator for Sustainable Innovation
5.35 – 6.15 Vision Talk 2 (Sustainability and consequences)
Germany Peter Stebbing, Hochschule für Gestaltung in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
- - Consequences and Sustainability
6.15 – 6.30 Youth Talk 1
India Varun Lulla
6.30 – 6.45 Question and Answer Session
6.45 – 8.00 Tiffin and networking Break
8.00 – 8.45 Closing Keynote Address (Sustainability and Innovation)
India Anil Gupta, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), and the Honey Bee Project, Ahmedabad
- Innovations on the Ground: Networking the benefits from People to People
Schedule Day 2:
Friday 7th of November 2009
8.30 – 9.30 Welcome tea and coffee
9.30 – 10.20 Opening Keynote Address (Sustainability and Hazard)
India Dunu Roy, Director, Hazard Centre, N. Delhi
- Building sustainable economic systems on the ground to reduce hazards:
10.20 – 10.30 Question and Answer Session
Session Chairman: Prof Anil Date
10.30 – 11.10 Designing from around the world 5 (Sustainability and Design Education)
USA Anne Dutlinger, Chair of Art Department, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
- Trash, Desire, and Consequences: Can Design Save the World?
11.10 – 11.40 Tea Break
11.40 – 12.10 Designing from around the world 6 (Sustainability and Natural Resource)
Italy Cintya Concari, President, H2O - Nuovi Scenari per la Sopravvivenza, Milan
- Ways to prevent a Water War – the H2O project
12.10 – 12.50 Designing from around the world 7 (Sustainability and Product Design)
Canada David Berman: author of ‘Do Good Design: How Designers Can Change the World’; also
Founder of the Constitution of Code of Ethics ratified Nationally, and Member, Icograda
Board. Based in Ottawa
- Design gaps and challenges in a sustainability-challenged world – the role of design in
shaping products, services, environments
12.50 – 1.10 Question and Answer Session
1.10 – 2.45 Lunch and networking
Session Chairman: Professor K Munshi
2.45 – 3.30 Vision Talk 3 (Sustainability and Quality of Life)
India Vinod Raina, Eklavya experiment
- Defining the Happiness Index - by material commodities or by human capabilities?
3.30 – 4.00 Designing from around the world 8 (Sustainability and Products)
India Unmesh Kulkarni, Philips India
- Philanthropy by Design: Design of Low Smoke Biomass Stove
4.00 – 4.15 Question and Answer Session
4.15 – 5.00 Tea Break 5.00 – 5.45 Vision Talk 4 (Sustainability and Built Environment)
India Anil Laul, The Anangpur Experiment and School of Planning and Architecture, N. Delhi
- Sustainability and living systems
5.45 – 6.00 Question and Answer Session
6.00 – 6.45 Tea Break
6.45 – 7.15 Interactive session with David Berman
7.15 – 8.00 Closing Keynote Address (Sustainability and Nature)
India Pralad Kakkar, Head, Genesis Films, Mumbai
- Escaping a tortured world to the deep sea environment of Lakshadweep: what can
we learn from these depths?
9.00 – 10.30 Dinner
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