Today we are focusing on redesigning cities using Bengaluru as a peg. In your experience how do we reimagine a city that is bursting at the seams and having a host of problems? As Pranay Kotasthane from Puliya Baazi says, Over population is not the problem but under governance is… Let us take the recent […]
Design
Designing Green events
How did “Nose to Tail” come to be? Whats with the name? What do you girls do exactly? Why? Can you share landscape of events w.r.t number of events, types of events that happen on a regular day in India. Or if you want to address your TAM. What all types of waste that is […]
Generalists or/and Specialists
What is your definition of Design and how has it changed over time? Charlie Chaplin, Gulzar, Massimo Vignelli, Satyajit Ray, or R.K. Joshi – Would you call them specialists or generalists? Why? How do you define these terms? Steve Jobs used to say that folks like Micheal Angelo and Leonardo Da Vinci were both doers […]
Intangible architecture
What is the role of an architect? At times, even social reformers were called “Social architects”. Charles Correa believed that architecture and urban design were instruments for social change. Could you elaborate on this idea? What is the “first principle thinking” when one is designing a building for a community? How does one measure the […]
Learning to see
Observation is one essential quality in a designer that needs to develop – Why? How does this observation help? In your article you mentioned, that self-taught Architects like Le Corbusier and Tadao Ando traveled for more than a year before they started their practice. How can the art of seeing or observing be developed? How […]
Minimalist Architecture
What is your definition of architecture? How has it changed over the last 3 decades? How do you see the relationship between urban design and architecture and how have your post-graduate studies in urban design influenced your architecture? You use the word “craft” when referring to the act of designing. In India, we have a […]
Crafting moving visuals
Let’s start with a layman’s definition of VFX and Special effects. What are they? Are they categorically different or used interchangeably and loosely? What does motion mean to you? What according to you is a definition of “good” storytelling? Can you briefly paint a picture of the evolution of animation, VFX, and motion design in […]
Printmaking at Atelier Prati
What is Atelier Prati? Why did you form it? Can you give us a little history of printing in India? We have a narrative of print being mightier, why? What was the need while India had a lot of oral tradition to transfer knowledge? Even paper came to India after 12 centuries when it was […]
Game design
Can you give us a quick background of how you got into games and as I said, some “big names” you’ve worked with in what capacity? How has your definition of game design changed over time? Can you share any broad numbers of how many full-time gamers we have in India? How big is the […]
Designing boundaries
What according to you (philosophically) are maps? Why do we need maps? What are different types of maps? Some show vegetation while some show roads and railways. Do maps create exclusivity? What is the significance of maps? What are the dangers of map making What comes first? Maps or boundaries? How are maps designed? How […]