Uday,

I think a "DesignIndia" conference in the US is a
wonderful idea. Let's see a show of hands from US
based designers for this!

Deepa

Deepa Rathnam Nirmal
CD, NID, 1995
St. Paul, MN, USA

--- Uday Dandavate <uday@...> wrote:

> I do believe that it is time for designindia to
> invite suggestions
> from its members on how the site should evolve next.
> Even Design
> India mini-conferences in a few cities in India and
> maybe a couple
> outside of India to discuss this issue could help.
> As the size of the
> membership increases, we will have more people who
> have distinctive
> interest in interacting with others who are a part
> of the network.
> While it seems natural for some people to use this
> forum as a way to
> chat with long lost friends from shcool, maybe
> another forum such as
> alumni.com would be more appropriate for such
> interactions. The
> evolution of this forum should ideally reflect the
> diversity of
> interest groups within the design community,
> especially amongst those
> who have a stake in the future of design in India.
>
> As a natural consequence of a lot of attention India
> is attracting
> around the world, as a place where action is likely
> to be in the
> future, we need to evolve this forum, keeping in
> mind a much wider
> network of people who are developing an interest in
> India. I do
> believe that it would help immensely if this forum
> had a website and
> from there pathways into various topic areas (e.g.
> core77). As we go
> through this evolutionary process we need to ensure
> that the open
> source model of sharing information and building
> ideas is at the
> heart of this forum.
>
> My companywould be glad to coordinate a Future of
> "DesignIndia"
> conference in the U.S. If there are any takers to
> this idea, we can
> start here and then take the road show to U.K. There
> have been a
> number of initiatives in discussing Future of
> Innovation in China.
> maybe it is time to make a big impact by creating an
> event where
> stakeholders of future of Innovation in India get
> together and think
> about it even outside of India. We can then feed the
> outcome back
> into shaping how DesignIndia should evolve.
>
> Let me know what you think about it.
>
>
> Uday Dandavate
> Principal
> SonicRim Ltd.
> Graduate of NID 1981 batch in Industrial Design.
>
>
>
>


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