After all the fun I had teaching Design in Rural Marketing, Here’s a little writeup on my experience at FIIB.
I walked into a class of 50 odd students expecting a talk on rural marketing and strategies thereof. After all, this is what they had signed up for.
This being my first experience with teaching, I did not really know what to expect but hoped that the students would have fun, stay awake and be able to connect with their creative side while learning a thing or two about design, rural marketing and all that goes into its operations.
After a brief talk on the work that Leela Design Studio has been doing, we took the class to the second phase of the session where we were going to do a small group exercise. …more
For most of my adult life, I have been fascinated by the way children play; the impact playfulness has on their development and play as a language of children. As an educator, I have observed children at close quarters and admired the way they took charge of their own learning by interacting with the environment and with the people around them. I have also witnessed some exceptional teachers perform magic by engaging the imagination of their students – by giving them the opportunity and incentive to interact with seemingly ordinary objects – and fired developmental neurons in the child’s brain. …more
A quick overview that outlines the experience aspects of an Ayurvedic MediSpa.
A collection of thoughts on Design, Sustainability, Learning, Technology, Product and People.
In a world where everyone is seeking smart people , experts and lists, the real lessons that one learns are in the nuggets of insight, encouragement or the tough questions that some people provide for no apparent benefit. These people may actually be outside your social circle or influence. Call them chance encounters or serendipity but one just comes across these people and they make a difference to the outcome of one’s situation at that time.
A mentor’s input is never a commercial transaction, because if there is some money involved then one could question motive. A mentor is not really a designation and one does not anoint someone as mentor. A person rarely would announce to the world that they have identified a mentor. A mentor is just someone they would turn to for that practical, no nonsense, non judgmental input over a period of time. …more
Whizzing past the empty roads and barren landscape of western Rajasthan the attempt to think was way past my ability. All one could do was hear the radio singing above the whistling wind. Daddam khan, the taxi driver was the proud daddy of the innovative radio. He beamed and told us how he had invented it in only Rs.500. He could even take out the chip and insert it in his phone to upload songs. He had been bored with the cassettes and had figured out the ‘chip technology’. He fiddled with it needlessly and continuously changed the songs with his remote.
We stopped for a tea break in one of the road side dhabas to see the small innovations all around us. It just reiterates my thought about how Indians will never be able to replicate like the Chinese – each Indian is an innovator or designer due to his own survival needs.The dhaba owner had long stone sink that had a hole though which a pipe drained into a kanaster or aluminum container. Simple and clean solution. …more