Design in its many manifestations forms an integral part of every culture. Civilizations evolve and attain their full potential because of it. Design based creative industries in India are witness to a fascinating churning, necessitating a search for a vision that may inform their evolution beyond - spanning education, profession and the industry. Thus, involving exposes, round tables, exhibitions etc. Design by Design is a step in that direction.
The energy behind the design of a pin or a city being the same, this joint initiative of Alliance Francaise de Delhi and Studio IF is also geared towards raising levels of appreciation within and nurturing connections across various creative industries – architecture, urban/ landscape/ interior design, product/ industrial design, textile/ fashion design, graphic/ communication design etc. Local and global in outlook, it is directed at the initiated and the uninitiated alike.
PRESENTERS:
EXPOSE 1, February 2010: Mukul Goyal, Product Designer/ Stephane Paumier, Architect
EXPOSE 2, March 2010: Vir. Mueller, Architects + Book launch- 'GOLCONDE, Introduction of Modernism in India'- Pankaj Vir Gupta/ Christine Mul\eller, Cyrus Samii
EXPOSE 3, April 2010: Itu Choudhuri, Graphic Designer/ Akshay Kaul, Landscape Arhcitect
EXPOSE 4, May 2010: Rajat Tuli & Rahul Anand, Accessory Designers/ Ambrish Arora, Interior Designer (Lotus)
EXPOSE 5, August 2010: Sumant Jaykrishnan, Designer, Scenographer, Installation Artist/ Madhu Pandit, Neeraj Manchanda, Architects
EXPOSE 6, September 2010: Incubis Designers/ Badrinarayanan, Architect
EXPOSE 7, October 2010: Anuj Sharma, Apparel Designer/ Ratish Nanda, Conservation Architect
EXPOSE 8, November 2010: Siddhartha Das, Exhibition Designer/ Rajeev Agarwal, Architect
EXPOSE 9, January 2011: Anuj Prasad, Product Designer (Desmania Design Pvt. Ltd.)/ Jyoti Rath, Architect (Jyoti Rath Associates, JR+A)
EXPOSE 10, March 2011: Parthiv Shah, Graphic-Communication Designer/ Verendra Wakhloo, Architect- Town Planner
EXPOSE 11, May 2011: Shrikrishan Kulkarni, Textile Designer (Designquest)/ Anupam Bansal and Rajesh Dongre, Architects (ABRD Architects Pvt. Ltd.)
EXPOSE 12,September 2011: Pascal Cribier, French Landscape Architect and Gardener + Charette- 'Garden, Nature or Landscape?'
EXPOSE 13, November 2011: Alex Davis, Product Designer/ Mathur Kapre Associates, Architects
EXPOSE 14, March 2012: Sanjib Chatterjee, Architect, Product Designer/ Sudeshna Chatterjee, Urban Designer
EXPOSE 15, May 2012: Gaurav Jai Gupta, Apparel Designer (AAKARO)/ A.R. Ramanathan, Snehanshu Mukherjee, Architects (TEAM)
EXPOSE 16, September 2012: Ishan Khosla, Graphic Designer/ Sourabh Gupta, Architect (Archohm Consultants Pvt. Ltd)
EXPOSE 17, November 2012: Vibhor Sogani, Product Designer/ Anne Feenstra, Architect
EXPOSE 18, March 2013: Amit Aggarwal, Fashion Designer/ Manish Gulati, Architect
EXPOSE 19, May 2013: Amardeep Behl, Exhibition Designer/ Marco Ferrario, Architect & Rakhi Mehra, Economist
EXPOSE 20, September 2013: Bikram Mittra, Industrial Designer/ Rajiv Narain, Architect
EXPOSE 21, November 2013: Payal Pratap Singh, Fashion Designer/ Martand Khosla, Architect
EXPOSE 22, March 2014: Anthony Lopez, Communication Designer/ Sanjay Bhardwaj, Architect
EXPOSE 23, May 2014: Srishti Bajaj, Product Designer/ Plural Design + Oracle Landscape, Architects
EXPOSE 24, September 25: Poonam Bhagat, Fashion Designer/ Suparna Bhalla, Architect
EXHIBITION: 20 under 35
PARTICIPATING DESIGNERS:
EXHIBITION 1: 2010-11
Architecture/ Habitat Design
Abhishek Bij/ Amit Talwar/ Madhav, Vaibhav/ Sumit, Aditi, Parul, Mukul Arora/ Preksha Baid
Product/ Industrial Design
Avinash, Ayush/ Bikram Mitra/ Chetan Sorab/ Sahil, Sarthak/ Srishti Bajaj
Graphic/ Communication Design
Dev Kabir Malik/ Ishan Khosla/ Kirti Monga/ Pushkar Thakur/ Rajesh Dahiya
Apparel Designer/ Textile Designer
Aneeth Arora/ Gaurav Jai Gupta/ Mayank Mansingh Kaul/ Rimzim Dadu/ Varun Sardana
EXHIBITION 2: 2011-12
Architecture/ Habitat Design
Somnath Ray, Koustuv De Biswas, Nitin Rao/ Adreesh Chakravarthy, Priyanka Khanna, Rohit Singh, Rudraksh Charan/ Manish Gulati/ Moulshri Joshi, Amritha Ballal, Suditya Sinha/ Rahul Sen
Product/ Industrial Design
Sandeep Paul, Suhasini Paul/ Vallabh Rastogi, Kamal Sharma/ Tanveen Rathi/ Gunjan Gupta/ Aditi Prakash
Graphic/ Communication Design
Vikram Kaushik/ Prasun Majumdar/ Shahna Garg/ Shilpa Wadhwa/ Sidhartha Chatterjee, Anitha Balachandran
Apparel/ Textile Design
Amit Agarwal/ Divyam Mehta/ Anand Bushan/ Shani Himanshu, Smita Singh Rathore/ Samant Chauhan
EXHIBITION 3: 2012-13
Architecture/ Habitat Design
Studio 11 Architects' Collaborative/ Amit Khanna/ Chinglemba Chingtham/ Akshat Bhatt/ Dhruv Chandra Sud
Product/ Industrial Design
Sandeep Paul/ Sibanand Bhol, Shweta Mahapatra/ Valay Gada/ Rohit Kumar/ Khushboo Gupta, Sargam Gupta
Graphic/ Communication Design
Hanumant Khanna, Sujay Sanan/ Anvita Jain/ Harpreet Padam, Lavanya Asthana/ Bhushan Basankule/ Amit Verma, Rajnish Kashyap
Apparel/ Textile Design
Swati Kalsi/ Nitin Bal Chauhan/ Ajit Kumar/ Ruchika Sachdeva/ Gautam Sinha
EXHIBITION 4: 2013-14
Architecture/ Habitat Design
Akshay Shrinagesh/ Ankon Mitra, Aashish Garg, Kanishka Jain/ Kanishka Prasad, Shruti Singhi/ Rajat Sodhi, Christoph Klemmt, Franceso Brenta/ Zameer Basrai, Ayaz Basrai
Product/ Industrial Design
Aditi Vitasta Dhar/ Kriti Chaudhary/ Rohan Chhabra/ Tanya Khanna, Anika M Dhawan/ Vikram Jangir, Kamal Sharma
Graphic/ Communication Design
Divya Chadha/ Hanif Kureshi/ Mickey Bardava/ Neha Tulsian/ Nikheel Aphale
Apparel/ Textile Design
Kunjika Gogna/ Pranav Mishra, Shyma Shetty/ Rahul Mishra/ Thinles Chosdup, Nirajana Adhya/ Vidhi Gupta, Mamta Gupta
ROUNDTABLE
PARTICIPANTS:
ROUNDTABLE 1: 2010
'Whither Design?'- the future of design based creative communities in India
Architecture/Habitat Design
Ashol Lal/ Ashok Dhawan/ M.N. Ashish Ganju/ Ashish Bhalla
Product/ Industrial Design
Lalit Das/ Alex Davis/ Amit Gulati/ N.C. Mathur
Graphic/ Communication Design
Lolita Dutta/ Vishvesh Sant/ Gopika Chofla/ Binu Nanu
Apparel/ Textile Design
Asha Baxi/ David Abraham/ Mayank Mansigh Kaul
Apex Bodies/ GOVT.
Mathusamy Varadarajan/ Darlie Koshy/ Vinod Kaul/ Premendra Raj Mehta/ Savita Punde
Moderators: Iftikhar-mulk Chishti/ Arun Rewal
ROUNDTABLE 2: 2011
"Designlok Pal?"- management of design based creative communities in India
Abhijit Ray, Indian Institute of Architects (IIA)
Anjan Das, Indian Design Council (IDC)
K.T. Ravindran, Institute of Urban Designers of India (IUDI)
Lapika Sood, Indian Institute of Interior Designers (IIID)
Niladri Mukherjee, Association of Designers of India (ADI)
Rajesh Pratap Singh, Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI)
Rohit Marol, Indian Society of Landscape Architects (ISOLA)
Vijay Sohoni, Council of Architecture (COA)
Moderators: Amit Gulati/ Madhav Raman
ROUNDTABLE 3: 2012
"Design Poriborton"- design as a domain and an agent of change in India
Architecture/ Habitat Design: Ravi Punde
Product/ Industrial Design: Mike Knowles
Graphic/ Communication Design: Vivek Sahni
Apparel/ Textile Design: Anjali Kalia
Moderator: Madhav Raman
A G Krishna Menon, Architect/ Urban Planner
Karma Lendhup Bhutia, Design Innovation strategist
Kalpana Viswananth, Researcher, Women's safety/ gender inclusion in cities
Parthiv Shah, Photographer/ Communication Design:
Shefalee Vasudev, Author/ fashion journalist
Moderator: Madhav Raman
ROUNDTABLE 5: 2014
Jagan Shah, National Institute for Urban Affairs
Paromita Roy, Unified Traffic and Transport Infrastructure Centre
Yamini Aiyer, Centre for Policy Research
Ayush Chauhan, Quicksand
Moderator: Madhav Raman
The energy behind the design of a pin or a city being the same, this joint initiative of Alliance Francaise de Delhi and Studio IF is also geared towards raising levels of appreciation within and nurturing connections across various creative industries – architecture, urban/ landscape/ interior design, product/ industrial design, textile/ fashion design, graphic/ communication design etc. Local and global in outlook, it is directed at the initiated and the uninitiated alike.
PRESENTERS:
EXPOSE 1, February 2010: Mukul Goyal, Product Designer/ Stephane Paumier, Architect
EXPOSE 2, March 2010: Vir. Mueller, Architects + Book launch- 'GOLCONDE, Introduction of Modernism in India'- Pankaj Vir Gupta/ Christine Mul\eller, Cyrus Samii
EXPOSE 3, April 2010: Itu Choudhuri, Graphic Designer/ Akshay Kaul, Landscape Arhcitect
EXPOSE 4, May 2010: Rajat Tuli & Rahul Anand, Accessory Designers/ Ambrish Arora, Interior Designer (Lotus)
EXPOSE 5, August 2010: Sumant Jaykrishnan, Designer, Scenographer, Installation Artist/ Madhu Pandit, Neeraj Manchanda, Architects
EXPOSE 6, September 2010: Incubis Designers/ Badrinarayanan, Architect
EXPOSE 7, October 2010: Anuj Sharma, Apparel Designer/ Ratish Nanda, Conservation Architect
EXPOSE 8, November 2010: Siddhartha Das, Exhibition Designer/ Rajeev Agarwal, Architect
EXPOSE 9, January 2011: Anuj Prasad, Product Designer (Desmania Design Pvt. Ltd.)/ Jyoti Rath, Architect (Jyoti Rath Associates, JR+A)
EXPOSE 10, March 2011: Parthiv Shah, Graphic-Communication Designer/ Verendra Wakhloo, Architect- Town Planner
EXPOSE 11, May 2011: Shrikrishan Kulkarni, Textile Designer (Designquest)/ Anupam Bansal and Rajesh Dongre, Architects (ABRD Architects Pvt. Ltd.)
EXPOSE 12,September 2011: Pascal Cribier, French Landscape Architect and Gardener + Charette- 'Garden, Nature or Landscape?'
EXPOSE 13, November 2011: Alex Davis, Product Designer/ Mathur Kapre Associates, Architects
EXPOSE 14, March 2012: Sanjib Chatterjee, Architect, Product Designer/ Sudeshna Chatterjee, Urban Designer
EXPOSE 15, May 2012: Gaurav Jai Gupta, Apparel Designer (AAKARO)/ A.R. Ramanathan, Snehanshu Mukherjee, Architects (TEAM)
EXPOSE 16, September 2012: Ishan Khosla, Graphic Designer/ Sourabh Gupta, Architect (Archohm Consultants Pvt. Ltd)
EXPOSE 17, November 2012: Vibhor Sogani, Product Designer/ Anne Feenstra, Architect
EXPOSE 18, March 2013: Amit Aggarwal, Fashion Designer/ Manish Gulati, Architect
EXPOSE 20, September 2013: Bikram Mittra, Industrial Designer/ Rajiv Narain, Architect
EXPOSE 21, November 2013: Payal Pratap Singh, Fashion Designer/ Martand Khosla, Architect
EXPOSE 22, March 2014: Anthony Lopez, Communication Designer/ Sanjay Bhardwaj, Architect
EXPOSE 24, September 25: Poonam Bhagat, Fashion Designer/ Suparna Bhalla, Architect
EXHIBITION: 20 under 35
PARTICIPATING DESIGNERS:
EXHIBITION 1: 2010-11
Architecture/ Habitat Design
Abhishek Bij/ Amit Talwar/ Madhav, Vaibhav/ Sumit, Aditi, Parul, Mukul Arora/ Preksha Baid
Product/ Industrial Design
Avinash, Ayush/ Bikram Mitra/ Chetan Sorab/ Sahil, Sarthak/ Srishti Bajaj
Graphic/ Communication Design
Dev Kabir Malik/ Ishan Khosla/ Kirti Monga/ Pushkar Thakur/ Rajesh Dahiya
Apparel Designer/ Textile Designer
Aneeth Arora/ Gaurav Jai Gupta/ Mayank Mansingh Kaul/ Rimzim Dadu/ Varun Sardana
EXHIBITION 2: 2011-12
Architecture/ Habitat Design
Somnath Ray, Koustuv De Biswas, Nitin Rao/ Adreesh Chakravarthy, Priyanka Khanna, Rohit Singh, Rudraksh Charan/ Manish Gulati/ Moulshri Joshi, Amritha Ballal, Suditya Sinha/ Rahul Sen
Product/ Industrial Design
Sandeep Paul, Suhasini Paul/ Vallabh Rastogi, Kamal Sharma/ Tanveen Rathi/ Gunjan Gupta/ Aditi Prakash
Graphic/ Communication Design
Vikram Kaushik/ Prasun Majumdar/ Shahna Garg/ Shilpa Wadhwa/ Sidhartha Chatterjee, Anitha Balachandran
Apparel/ Textile Design
Amit Agarwal/ Divyam Mehta/ Anand Bushan/ Shani Himanshu, Smita Singh Rathore/ Samant Chauhan
EXHIBITION 3: 2012-13
Architecture/ Habitat Design
Studio 11 Architects' Collaborative/ Amit Khanna/ Chinglemba Chingtham/ Akshat Bhatt/ Dhruv Chandra Sud
Product/ Industrial Design
Sandeep Paul/ Sibanand Bhol, Shweta Mahapatra/ Valay Gada/ Rohit Kumar/ Khushboo Gupta, Sargam Gupta
Graphic/ Communication Design
Hanumant Khanna, Sujay Sanan/ Anvita Jain/ Harpreet Padam, Lavanya Asthana/ Bhushan Basankule/ Amit Verma, Rajnish Kashyap
Apparel/ Textile Design
Swati Kalsi/ Nitin Bal Chauhan/ Ajit Kumar/ Ruchika Sachdeva/ Gautam Sinha
EXHIBITION 4: 2013-14
Architecture/ Habitat Design
Akshay Shrinagesh/ Ankon Mitra, Aashish Garg, Kanishka Jain/ Kanishka Prasad, Shruti Singhi/ Rajat Sodhi, Christoph Klemmt, Franceso Brenta/ Zameer Basrai, Ayaz Basrai
Product/ Industrial Design
Aditi Vitasta Dhar/ Kriti Chaudhary/ Rohan Chhabra/ Tanya Khanna, Anika M Dhawan/ Vikram Jangir, Kamal Sharma
Graphic/ Communication Design
Divya Chadha/ Hanif Kureshi/ Mickey Bardava/ Neha Tulsian/ Nikheel Aphale
Apparel/ Textile Design
Kunjika Gogna/ Pranav Mishra, Shyma Shetty/ Rahul Mishra/ Thinles Chosdup, Nirajana Adhya/ Vidhi Gupta, Mamta Gupta
ROUNDTABLE
PARTICIPANTS:
ROUNDTABLE 1: 2010
'Whither Design?'- the future of design based creative communities in India
Architecture/Habitat Design
Ashol Lal/ Ashok Dhawan/ M.N. Ashish Ganju/ Ashish Bhalla
Product/ Industrial Design
Lalit Das/ Alex Davis/ Amit Gulati/ N.C. Mathur
Graphic/ Communication Design
Lolita Dutta/ Vishvesh Sant/ Gopika Chofla/ Binu Nanu
Apparel/ Textile Design
Asha Baxi/ David Abraham/ Mayank Mansigh Kaul
Apex Bodies/ GOVT.
Mathusamy Varadarajan/ Darlie Koshy/ Vinod Kaul/ Premendra Raj Mehta/ Savita Punde
Moderators: Iftikhar-mulk Chishti/ Arun Rewal
ROUNDTABLE 2: 2011
"Designlok Pal?"- management of design based creative communities in India
Abhijit Ray, Indian Institute of Architects (IIA)
Anjan Das, Indian Design Council (IDC)
K.T. Ravindran, Institute of Urban Designers of India (IUDI)
Lapika Sood, Indian Institute of Interior Designers (IIID)
Niladri Mukherjee, Association of Designers of India (ADI)
Rajesh Pratap Singh, Fashion Design Council of India (FDCI)
Rohit Marol, Indian Society of Landscape Architects (ISOLA)
Vijay Sohoni, Council of Architecture (COA)
Moderators: Amit Gulati/ Madhav Raman
ROUNDTABLE 3: 2012
"Design Poriborton"- design as a domain and an agent of change in India
Architecture/ Habitat Design: Ravi Punde
Product/ Industrial Design: Mike Knowles
Graphic/ Communication Design: Vivek Sahni
Apparel/ Textile Design: Anjali Kalia
Moderator: Madhav Raman
ROUNDTABLE 4: 2013
"Design - nara ya mada?" - Gender sensitivity in design practices in India
A G Krishna Menon, Architect/ Urban Planner
Karma Lendhup Bhutia, Design Innovation strategist
Kalpana Viswananth, Researcher, Women's safety/ gender inclusion in cities
Parthiv Shah, Photographer/ Communication Design:
Shefalee Vasudev, Author/ fashion journalist
Moderator: Madhav Raman
ROUNDTABLE 5: 2014
'Designer Sarkar' - Design of governance and the governance of design
Jagan Shah, National Institute for Urban Affairs
Paromita Roy, Unified Traffic and Transport Infrastructure Centre
Yamini Aiyer, Centre for Policy Research
Ayush Chauhan, Quicksand
Moderator: Madhav Raman
