The floods in Pakistan are being described as a slow Tsunami, sweeping across the length of the country, raising further fears of epidemics. It is a heart wrenching situation, but is only the taste of things to come, as this article puts it. Everyone who can is helping out, in whatever way possible. From a [...]
As part of the public engagement activities around the 5th Dimensional Camera project, we ran a school workshop with A level science students from York. They were given an overview of the project in the exhibition, and we then discussed various possibilities and likely implications of Quantum Computing. Finally, all of us split into teams [...]
Few weeks post TEDIndia, I am still a bit overwhelmed, trying to decompress the experience. Sunitha Krishnan’s images of the many thousands of young girls she continues to rescue from Indian brothels through her organization Prajwala shook the soul. Her words “Very often you find that the victims have an incredible sense of ‘giving’, they [...]
Next week I will be attending TEDIndia as a TED Fellow, and I am definitely looking forward to it. The theme of the conference is ‘Future Beckons’ and conference line-up is absolutely fantastic. Some of the speakers I am very keen to listen include Hans Rosling, R.A. Mashelkar, Banny Banerjee, Kiran Sethi, Anil Gupta and [...]
In a previous post, I had mentioned about the Power of 8 public engagement efforts we had organsied as part of the London 2012 Open Weekend events. Here’s what the big table looked like at the end of the weekend. You can read more about it here, and more images here.
Its the day before our OPEN WEEKEND, for the Power of 8 project, and we are excited. Here are some images of our setup. The table will grow into some kind of cityscape / landscape hopefully over the course of two afternoons. More pictures then. This is work-in-progress and part of our public engagement efforts. [...]
In a conversation with Dougald Hine about the Power of 8 project, he mentioned the Dark Mountain Project that he had been working on, with Paul Kingsnorth. Today is the launch of this project, and to coincide with that event, here’s a video of Dougald explaining the story behind it. You can read and download [...]
A quick update regarding The Power of 8 project. We are opening the first phase of the project to the public with an ‘OPEN WEEKEND’ at the Watermans Gallery on 25th and 26th July, from 1pm to 4pm on both days. This is part of the London 2012 Open Weekend and the Cultural Olympiad, organised [...]
As part of Superflux’s endeavour to understand the values that will underlie the changing design scene in the India in the coming years, especially when there seems to be a sudden interest in the country’s economy, I thought I’d start with ‘Eames Report‘ (written in April 1957). Charles and Ray Eames Although hugely famous in [...]
“What we can say without any shadow of doubt is that petroleum man is just about extinct by the end of the century. That poses the thorny, difficult question, will Homo sapiens be as wise as his name implies and figure out a way to live without oil which is the bloodstream of virtually everything.” [...]
