About people and everyday complexes
Wheels can take us around and our experiences, surely they are telling us a lot too; about their journeys, roads they have been to. Remember the poem, the “wheels of the bus go round and round…”
Well, here are some of those things that they are carrying, taking actions, experiences from one region to another across India. Continue reading “Look, what’s on the wheels!”
There have been many times that you exchange money, without acknowledging the services that you expect or receive in return and that’s what I started calling ‘Silent Economy’. In India, it is quite visible in many forms.
Besides how we know it, by analogy, the word silence can be referred to any absence of communication, even other than speech/verbal and music.
Just recently there was the International Literary Festival in Pune (www.pilf.in) and people from all over came to express love for the written word. If you’re a bibliophile and a trendwatcher, this was one literary event, you would have liked to attend. The main social theme of the event was ‘global image of India’, to showcase India’s cultural richness & diversity. Continue reading “Literature. Fashion. Art. creating a Global Image of India”
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested.” – Francis Bacon
And some are to be pictured!
While getting immersed in reading a book, we often go beyond the words, into the life of the author, book’s real purpose. Why and how the book was written and even how it might have impacted some people and relationships. Continue reading “Picture a Book”
People build doors for their spaces to divide functions. What drives their understanding of inside/outside?
What do they consider to select the build quality, the dimensions or the structure of this architectural element?
Do they call it an exit or an entrance? How does culture define the design of door?
Seth Priebatsch from SCVNGR, a mobile start-up, is looking at the next big thing in progress after the social layer of Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp. According to him it is about a “game layer,” a pervasive net of behavior-steering game dynamics that will reshape education and commerce. Continue reading “Mobile Gaming by Indian Teenagers”
What’s it that makes people go and sit at the local tea stalls?
How does space define behaviors? How do practices around tea determine the design of stalls?
Is it about the tea that is served, or more about the conversations that happen over sipping this magical beverage?
As a keen observer of the Indian urban landscape, it is fascinating to notice and put the city affairs in perspective with each other. So, here I tried to define an emerging phenomenon in my city, Pune and some other parts of this country and world. While doing so, I have attempted to apply Trendwatching approach in analysing all the pieces.
Most of us have heard about the concept of trends from somewhere or the other; be it in marketing, fashion, technology or internet. Trends stay longer than fads and are more like broader shifts that develop in an industry… Continue reading “Trends – Life is Random and Participatory Experiences”
My deep-dive into how art can make an impact in Indian cityscapes coincided with recent Pune Street Art Project and Pune Biennale. T C Chang (meet the researcher) presented his discourse on public art. He was introducing it as part of Pune Biennale’s event (supported by the Pune Municipal Corporation); Public Space and Aesthetics: Heritage In Continuous Motion.
The Research Book 