Pune Design Festival 2022: Full Schedule

9:00am IST

Pocket Cinema Workshop - Session 1

The Pocket Film Workshop is designed to help participants integrate the workings and aesthetics of cinema as an art, and bring those ideas and aesthetics into the personal format of the mobile phone camera.

Duration
The workshop is being conducted over a period of 3 days, 28th Feb, 1st Mar and 2nd Mar - in 2 hour sessions.

Material needed for the workshop
Participants need to have a smart phone and any basic nonlinear editing software.

Below is a list of softwares suggested.
1. Filmr
2. Quik
3. FilmoraGo
4. Kinemaster
5. Viva Video

Limited Seats

Speakers

Kurush Canteenwala

Holding a Masters degree in Cinema from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Kurush pursued graduation and post-graduation in English from Mumbai University.He has an extensive body of work as an independent filmmaker, while also grooming the next generation of cinema professionals... Read More →

Monday February 28, 2022 9:00am - 11:00am IST
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Workshop - Into the Metaverse

The workshop presents an understanding on the basic building blocks of Metaverse. Participants will be introduced to AR/VR and its relevant prototyping tools (Lo-Fi and Software).

What to expect
1) An understanding of metaverse and it's enabling technologies.
2) Prototyping techniques for XR
3) Potential of Metaverse 4) Overview of relevant tools

This session is ideal for
Students and Professionals, UX Researchers and Designers, 18 and above

Material to keep handy
1. Stationary Kit - pencil, pen, paper cutter etc
2. Papers
3. Straws
4. Paper Cups

Limited Seats

Speakers

Dr Anmol Srivastava

Dr. Anmol Srivastava is a Human-Computer Interaction designer. His research interests are towards exploring the potential of emerging technologies to aid utility, usability and creative self-expression in various contexts and use cases. At present he is serving as an Assistant Professor... Read More →

Pankaj Badoni

Mr. Pankaj Badoni have been associated with UPES for last 9 years and previously worked with Headstrong Pvt. Ltd. as application developer. He has strong inclination towards Game Design and Development. He has a strong knowledge base in the field of Augmented and Virtual reality... Read More →

Monday February 28, 2022 4:00pm - 6:00pm IST
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Hackathon - Furniture Design | Session 1

This Hackathon is a Design Contest which will provide the participants a platform to engage with leading Industrial Designers who will shape the context and help synthesize their ideas over three days. All finalists will receive certificates. The winning teams will be further mentored by Foley Designs and prototyped by Dovetail Furniture and Design Circle.

Theme: To design furniture elements for the indoor and outdoor public spaces of the new Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology campus.

Limited Seats

Speakers

Samir Parkar

Samir is Associate Dean and Binu Head of Studies of Srishti Manipal's Interior Design & Build and Creative Manufacturing programs. They have developed and implemented the curriculum for the three year Undergraduate Skills-based Vocational Program which offers the Bachelor of Vocation... Read More →

Binu Bhaskaran

Monday February 28, 2022 8:00pm - 11:45pm IST
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9:00am IST

Pocket Cinema Workshop - Session 2

Speakers

Kurush Canteenwala

Tuesday March 1, 2022 9:00am - 11:00am IST
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4:00pm IST

Workshop - Beyond Objectification

The workshop is based on re-looking at objects from our families via a new lens - as artefacts of socio-cultural-historical-economic storytelling significance. Materials will be analysed as timekeepers; as historians of the house and as silent witnesses to (world) events. Using the first person narrative, each workshop member will use words and images, props and artefacts to weave a personal family narrative via an object of their choice from their homes. The mediums to be explored for expression of the narrative can be diverse: from postcards to accordions; family trees to collages; journals to maps for example.

What to expect from this Workshop
Create material memory for the continuum of family narratives through image and words. Archive, over 2 hours, these personal histories to last beyond human memory.

Limited Seats

Speakers

Aparna Raman

Aparna Raman is a storyteller, communications and branding professional, writer and entrepreneur who works with narratives and design thinking to visualise new possibilities. Areas of exploration include brand psychology, education, terrains and tales and memory.

Tuesday March 1, 2022 4:00pm - 6:00pm IST
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Workshop - Digital Sketching

In this workshop, you will explore how to use sketching as a tool for creativity and idea communication. Participants are best suited to have a working knowledge of any digital sketching software like Photoshop / Sketchbook Pro / Procreate and must have a sketching tablet and stylus for this session.

What to expect
Techniques of ideation using digital sketching and conceptualizing a product idea

This session is ideal for
Design students with a working knowledge of digital sketching using tablets

Requirements
A digital tablet with stylus
Laptop with any digital sketching softwares like photoshop, sketchbook pro etc

Limited Seats

Speakers

Mandar Kale

Mandar is an Electrical Engineer, Industrial Designer, and Design Educator, though currently, he calls himself a design generalist.A keen observer by nature, design for him is a juggling act of creation, communication, and implementation, with user emotion at the core of all activities.His... Read More →

Tuesday March 1, 2022 4:00pm - 6:00pm IST
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8:00pm IST

Hackathon - Furniture Design | Session 2

Speakers

Samir Parkar

Binu Bhaskaran

Tuesday March 1, 2022 8:00pm - 11:45pm IST
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9:00am IST

Pocket Cinema Workshop - Session 3

Speakers

Kurush Canteenwala

Wednesday March 2, 2022 9:00am - 11:00am IST
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4:00pm IST

Design Thinking Workshop for High School Students

THINKING LIKE A DESIGNER: understanding aspirations to solve everyday problems in a “designerly” way. What differentiates a designer from a non designer? To understand this we have to first understand what designers do! Everything we have around us – our environments, clothes, furniture, machines, communication systems, even much of our food – has been designed. The quality of that design effort therefore profoundly affects our quality of life. The ability of designers to produce efficient, effective, imaginative and stimulating designs is therefore important to all of us. Although design is usually associated with novelty and originality, most run-of-the-mill designing is actually based on making variations on previous designs.

Materials to keep handy: Scissors, A4 paper 12 sheets, Card board from packaging, Glue, Colour markers, Thick cotton/nylon string

Speakers

Jacob Mathew

Having completed an intensive five-and-a-half-year PEP programme from NID Ahmedabad, Jacob Matthew has pursued Business Design extensively throughout his professional journey.Among his many professional ventures, he started as the Co-Founder of Tessaract Design that helped build the... Read More →

Janak Mistry

A graduate and post graduate in Industrial Design, Janak Mistry is also an alumnus of NID Ahmedabad, where he pursued product design.He has had an impressive journey in both the industry and academia and has explored diverse profiles to pursue his passion for product design and industrial... Read More →

Wednesday March 2, 2022 4:00pm - 6:00pm IST
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Workshop -Creating Satisfying Vidoes Using Blender

In this workshop the participants will be introduced to 3D imaging software blender and they will be guided through to create visually satisfying looping animations in Blender.

Skill level: beginners

What to expect
Introduction to the interface and basic concepts of 3D imaging

This session is ideal for
Anyone who is keen on learning Blender or get introduced to the world of 3D imaging

Requirements
1. Laptop/ computer with stable internet connection
2. Blender Software Installed
3. Check more details here https://www.blender.org/download/requirements/

Limited Seats

Speakers

Hemant Suthar

Wednesday March 2, 2022 4:00pm - 6:00pm IST
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8:00pm IST

Hackathon - Furniture Design | Session 3

Speakers

Samir Parkar

Binu Bhaskaran

Wednesday March 2, 2022 8:00pm - 11:45pm IST
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3:00pm IST

Panel Discussion: Design Education

Moderators

Dr. Geetha Narayanan

An evangelist for learning and an activist for change in educational milieus across the world Geetha has worked for over 4 decades in the overlapping fields of education, arts and culture, design and technology. Her work is embodied in her daily practice as teacher and as leader... Read More →

Speakers

Thursday March 3, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm IST
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4:30pm IST

Networking

Thursday March 3, 2022 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
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5:00pm IST

Opening Session

Speakers

Rahul Ram

Rahul Narasimha Ram has some exceptional educational qualifications, earned at some of the top-ranking educational institutions in India and the USA. After schooling at St. Xavier’s School, Delhi, he took a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and followed... Read More →

Thursday March 3, 2022 5:00pm - 5:40pm IST
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5:45pm IST

Design Leadership: A Catalyst for Change

In a world where society is changing rapidly, novelties commoditize instantly and markets are no longer segmented in familiar ways, opportunities are driven by meaningful and relevant ideas nurtured through company systems into successful commercialization. Companies, often large and complex, recognize the role of creativity and design as an opportunity to advance innovation and drive change into the future. Learn how design can create positive change; and how to navigate the challenges that we all face as strategists, creative professionals, and change-makers, as we work to drive innovation and progress…by effective design leadership.

Speakers

Eric Quint

Eric is bringing over 20 years of international executive design leadership experience and is a practitioner of design thinking as a mindset for collaboration and transformation across multiple levels of an organization to drive progress. He is a frequent keynote speaker and guest... Read More →

Thursday March 3, 2022 5:45pm - 6:25pm IST
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6:30pm IST

Beyond Function

Beyond function is emotion and meaning.
Cars have, for the most part, been emotional purchases. What are the emotions that are triggered by car purchase and ownership and how do we as designers satiate those emotional needs of customers.
The challenge facing the automotive industry is climate change and our response to it. Customers will be asking us about how meaningful our contribution is towards saving earth for future generations.

Speakers

Ramkripa Ananthan

Ramkripa Ananthan (Kripa) is Director, KRUX Studio, an automotive design services venture she founded in December 2021.She obtained her BE (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from BITS, Pilani, in the year 1992. She worked in manufacturing engineering in Thermax Ltd for 3 years and subsequently... Read More →

Thursday March 3, 2022 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST
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7:15pm IST

ADI Honorary Fellow Talk

Speakers

Prof Vijay Bapat

Thursday March 3, 2022 7:15pm - 8:00pm IST
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8:00pm IST

PDF After Hours: Design Quiz

Thursday March 3, 2022 8:00pm - 9:00pm IST
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3:00pm IST

Panel Discussion: Business of Design

Moderators

Radhika Seth

Speakers

Shibani Jain

Shashank Deshpande

Shanoo Bhatia

Tanay Kumar

Friday March 4, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm IST
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3:00pm IST

GEN.D - Generation Design Day 1

Speakers

Manas Ranjan

Dr. Geetha Narayanan

Baarish Date

Seema Seth

Vinay Mundada

Akash Alegaonkar

Shivani Gadkari

Friday March 4, 2022 3:00pm - 5:00pm IST
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4:30pm IST

Networking

Friday March 4, 2022 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
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5:00pm IST

Beyond Craft and Communities

Speakers

Jaya Jaitly

Popularly known as a firebrand national-level politician and a social activist, Jaya Jaitly is a promoter and expert in the field of India’s arts and crafts cottage industries. Dastkari Haat Samiti (Arts & Crafts Market) was founded by her in 1986, to enable rural artisans of traditional... Read More →

Friday March 4, 2022 5:00pm - 5:40pm IST
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5:45pm IST

Beyond Borders

A new paradigm where art meets design : 18 years of Srishti-Interim and the future of design education.
In 2004 60 students from art and design colleges from Africa (Senegal), Europe (France), UK and Asia (India) came to Srishti and in a 3 week long workshop on the Future of Education 20 years hence came up with their vison of interdisciplinary working between art, design, science and technology. Meena Vari takes us through 18 years of this exploration as she co-creates the next 20 year vision of the Future of Education. In the process she has blurred the boundaries between Art, Design, science and technology to helped co create collaborations between artists and designers from India and abroad to create works of outstanding creativity and expression that are bigger in scope than the individual disciplines themselves.

Speakers

Meena Vari

Meena Vari, Dean: School of Media Arts and Sciences and Contemporary Art and Curatorial Practice at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology works to develop the practice of Contemporary arts in Srishti and outside. She is interested in curatorial practice as a form of experience... Read More →

Friday March 4, 2022 5:45pm - 6:25pm IST
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6:30pm IST

Beyond Visual Design

How to approach storytelling for editorial illustration and find a style that works for you. Simoul will also be presenting some of her 3D Illustration work for clients like The New York Times, Adobe, Youtube Music, New York Magazine, Slack, WIRED.

Speakers

Simoul Alva

Simoul Alva is a Visual Designer and Art Director based in New York. She works across identity design, storytelling, 3D illustration and visual strategy. Her clients include The New York Times, Youtube, Harvard Business Review, MIT Technology Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic... Read More →

Friday March 4, 2022 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST
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7:15pm IST

Beyond Communication

Mervyn Kurlansky completed his education at the Central School of Art and Design, London in 1960. He then took up the role of Director at the design consultancy service of Knoll International in 1961. A decade later, in 1972, he became the Co-founder of Pentagram, which has today evolved into the world’s biggest independent design company. He then proceeded to start Mervyn Kurlansky Design in 1994. He has also been a Partner at Crosby/Fletcher/Forbes since 1999.
Mervyn has worked with MNCs, cultural establishments and educational institutions worldwide. With such a wide range of clientele, the work he has produced has also won some of the most prestigious awards, globally. This includes a Bronze at Brno Biennale, Silver awards at Designers and Art Directors Association and New York Art Directors Club, a Gold at the Package Designers Council and Japan’s Minister of Trade and Industry, the iconic Gustav Klimt Prize 1995 and the Danish IG Design Prize 1996.
He has held many prestigious offices including Former President of ICoD, a Fellow of CSD, ISTD and RSA, National President in Denmark of AGI, and a former member of DD (the Association of Danish Designers).
Mervyn’s work is in the permanent collection of MOMA New York, Design Museum, Copenhagen and Poster Museum, Aarhus, and has been featured in publications and exhibitions worldwide. He conceived and designed the books, Watching My Name Go By, the first documentation of New York graffiti, and Masters of the 20th Century celebrating the work of the 107 speakers of Icograda London Design Seminars 1974-1999, co-author of four books about Pentagram.
He is active in design education, conducts lectures extensively and serves on design juries internationally.

Speakers

Mervyn Kurlansky

Friday March 4, 2022 7:15pm - 8:00pm IST
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PDF After Hours - Game - I DID'NT DO IT - Scenario Planning

A visceral experience of how many small events tip systems into connected globe changing shifts. Play Perspectivity’s Climate Change Game. Two hours that will change forever how you view systems. Perspectivity.org's Climate Change game is a great way to experience systems, scenario planning and effects usually unintended, of our current economic models. Scenario Planning emerged out of the work Peter Senge and others did with Shell Oil in the 70s and led to Transformative Scenario Planning method that helped in the creation of South Africa as a Rainbow Nation and prevented it from sliding into chaos and violent destruction at the end of the apartheid era.

2 hours that will change forever how you view systems

What to expect
Introduction to Scenario Planning, Climate Change Systems Thinking and unintended consequences

This session is ideal for
Practicing professionals, design students and design educators

Requirements
1. Laptop that can access Miro/Mural,
2. stable internet connection

Limited seats

Speakers

Jacob Mathew

Anubhav Khanduja

Anubhav leads Perspectivity.org in India and has conducted workshops for the Singapore Government and Design schools in India and many corporate entities in India and abroad

Nandini Kulkarni

Nandini Kulkarni leads Idiom Circular Services Trust and has adapted the Perspectivity Game for online participation and will monitor the progress of the game.

Friday March 4, 2022 8:15pm - 10:15pm IST
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9:30am IST

Workshop - Beyond Calligraphy

Truly exploring calligraphy or lettering only begins when one goes beyond tools and techniques. Only then one sees how much just the right swirl or the perfect angle can speak to you... Letters no longer remain letters, you see them as forms that invite you to play around with them! You then connect with your content on a totally different plane and lose yourself in the new world while you simultaneously create it! Everyone holds hidden potentials and extraordinary talent within them and to take that potential to new heights is up to the individual. I invite you to join me on this beautiful creative journey; I would love to share my skills, experience and knowledge to take this art to the next level. Let's explore some interesting, aesthetically pleasing compositions together!

What to expect
Explore gestural calligraphy
Simple techniques in calligraphy
No prior experience required
Expressive lettering using brushes

This workshop is ideal for
The Workshop is designed for all the creative minds, students and art enthusiasts.

Requirements
Pen, pencil, a bottle of water for yourself

Limited seats

Speakers

Chaitanya Gokhale

Chaitanya Gokhale is a professional calligrapher, design consultant and researcher. He has studied Graphic Design at the University of the Arts, London. He's mainly devoted to the development of the Indian Devanagari Calligraphy. He has played important roles in the field of Art... Read More →

Saturday March 5, 2022 9:30am - 12:30pm IST
PDF Workshop at Pune Handmade Papers

Workshop, Offline

3:00pm IST

Panel Discussion: Scaling Design Businesses

Moderators

Siddharth Kabra

Speakers

Geetanjali Kasliwal

Nachiket Thakur

Sanandan Sudhir

Aurobinda Pradhan

Saturday March 5, 2022 3:00pm - 4:30pm IST
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3:00pm IST

GEN.D - Generation Design Day 2

Speakers

Narendra Ghate

Amit Deshmukh

Thomas Dal

A Balasubramanian

Kaushal Dabak

Subhrajit Ghosal

Saturday March 5, 2022 3:00pm - 5:00pm IST
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4:30pm IST

Networking

Saturday March 5, 2022 4:30pm - 5:00pm IST
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Beyond Design

Speakers

Bhushan Patil

Saturday March 5, 2022 5:00pm - 5:40pm IST
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5:45pm IST

Responsible Design: Thinking Beyond Technology, Business, People & Environment

The talk aims to expand the horizon of understanding that underlies the design and management of complex urban socio-technical systems including buildings, communities, critical infrastructure, governance, and cities. Particularly, my talk provides several examples drawn from my experiences of living and working in Denmark, Singapore, and India. Some key takeaway messages for audiences include - a definition of "responsible design-thinking", and its exemplification through real-life illustrations.

The discussion revolves around several methods (e.g. observing CPS in the wild) and practical frameworks through which design professionals can collaboratively develop both aptitude and attitude required to identify challenges (e.g. climate-change, urbanization, sustainability, digitalization), opportunities (e.g. liveability, resiliency, happiness, health) required to understand and address the complexities (e.g. governance, implementation) beyond technical and business feasibility for the benefit of the environment and people in the design of urban socio-technical systems.

Speakers

Balaji Kalluri

A systems engineer turned urban building scientist, Balaji is a seasoned multi-disciplinary researcher, a futurist, an innovator, and a young educator. He carries international professional experience working in several leading academic and industry settings, predominantly across... Read More →

Saturday March 5, 2022 5:45pm - 6:25pm IST
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6:30pm IST

Building Brands in Motion

Design in Motion: Let’s look at motion from the lens of what it is not and what does it have to do with a brand? For starters, just like a brand, it is not stagnant, dull, boring, lifeless or dead. If the story of a brand is not expressed through the principles of motion, it will eventually die and become meaningless. Sheetal talks about the principles and theory of motion and how guidelines can be created to express deeper values and dimension.

Speakers

Sheetal Sudhir

Sheetal is an NID grad who has spearheaded numerous PromaxBDA award-winning campaigns for Channel V as its Creative Director. She has been a guest lecturer at prestigious educational institutions like NID, Ahmedabad & Parsons School of Design, New York. Her last position with Star... Read More →

Saturday March 5, 2022 6:30pm - 7:10pm IST
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Mughal-e-Algorithm

A writer, a director and an Indian filmmaker of repute, Pushpendra is an alumnus of the prestigious National Institute of Design where he fine tuned his craft in storytelling. From popular ad films to feature films and even web series, Pushpendra excels in writing for all formats – short and long – and has received tremendous acclaim for his craft. Born and brought up in Lucknow, he is proud of his Hindi heartland upbringing and firmly believes that it adds a lot to his approach to work.
He has a firm opinion that ‘everything begins with a good script’ and that the craft should mostly be invisible. Having worked on ad films for many leading brands, his work has won several shortlists at all the global marquee events like Cannes Lions, Clios, Adfest and New York Festival. In fact, he has received many awards for his truly clutter-breaking work at Kyoorius, Abbys and Promax.
Pushpendra lives by the adage, ‘You cannot take Lucknow out of a Lucknowite’ and says that it is reflected in his craft.

Speakers

Pushpendra Nath Mishra

Saturday March 5, 2022 7:15pm - 8:00pm IST
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Battle of Projects Awards

Saturday March 5, 2022 8:00pm - 9:00pm IST
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