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We have extended the abstract submission deadline for the ICDHS14 Cultures of Design. Please send in your entries now. Visit icdhs14.org #ICDHS14 #DesignHistory #DesignStudies #CulturesOfDesign
डिज़ाइन सिर्फ वह नहीं है जो दिखाई देता है। यह इस बात में भी है कि चीज़ें कैसे काम करती हैं, हम उनका इस्तेमाल कैसे करते हैं और वे हमारे अनुभवों को कैसे बेहतर बनाती हैं। इस परिचयात्मक वीडियो से शुरू होती है डिज़ाइन को समझने की हमारी यात्रा
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#DesignInHindi #WhatIsDesign #DesignEducation
Om Shanti Krishna
IIT Delhi is deeply saddened by the demise of Prof. Krishna AchutaRao, a Professor at the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS). He passed away on September 4, 2026.
Prof. AchutaRao served at the Institute for about two decades and held various positions of responsibility, including Dean (Faculty) and Head, CAS. He was also instrumental in the establishment of the Centre of Excellence for Climate Change Adaptation at the Institute.
He was a well-known researcher in climate change, climate risk assessment, and adaptation to climate change. He contributed significantly to various international bodies, including the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the World Climate Research Program.
The Institute community extends its heartfelt condolences to Prof. AchutaRao’s family, friends, and students.
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One of the best catches I have seen in the recent times! #RichaGhosh
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My childhood Hero, and still the one of them. #Narlikar
In 2001, the University Grants Commission of India decided to introduce astrology as a science course in India. Back then, Indian scientists still used to protest this sort of thing and JV
Narlikar was one of most vocal.
Perhaps this event motivated JVN and his friends to run a double blind study on astrology some years later. Their methodology was simple. They considered two groups of children—one group was children with severe intellectual disabilities, the other was a typically developing group. Could astrologers tell which is which from their horoscopes?
Many prominent astrologers backed off from taking the study but 27 took it up. It didn’t take a horoscope to predict the result of this study—not a single one beat the null hypothesis (link to the paper 👇). Astrology busted (again).
Narlikar, Dabholkar and the likes were old school scholars who dedicated their time to championing rationalism and scientific temper in the country, even in the face of hostility, instead of chasing personal wealth and status. They don’t make them like that anymore.
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The controversy around the Indian #Rupee symbol, ₹, takes me back to the morning at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (2010). I was casually walking back to my room in Hostel-13 when I noticed a crowd gathered near the entrance of Hostel-7. It was not students—there were media mobs, cameras, and mics. Something big had happened!
Curious, I approached one of them and asked, “Kya hua, sirji?”
“A student from IIT Bombay has won the rupee symbol competition,” he replied, brimming with excitement.
My first instinctive response: “Udaya?” And then, without waiting for an answer, “Wow! You know Udaya?”
“Yes,” I nodded. “He’s my senior in IDC.”
That’s when one of the journalists perked up, nudging his colleague. “Arre, he is Udaya’s junior! We can take his byte till Udaya is available.”
And just like that, I found myself unexpectedly caught in the media frenzy, all because I happened to know the guy who had just designed a symbol that would be etched into India’s currency forever. Please see the video at 1:05 ;)
PS: I also submitted an entry but I think, ₹, the better #design won.
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Very excited to announce the Keynotes for the SiDE Symposium TU Delft, “What Was Sustainability? The Past, Present, and Future of Sustainability in Design and its Education,” a two-day symposium featuring papers and keynote addresses from around the world on 26-27 March 2025 at Industrial Design Engineering @tudelft
Jan Carel Diehl, Peter Van Dam and Kjetil Fallan
More information on the theme, speakers, and schedule can be found at side.iitd.ac.in
Thanks
Sam Franklin and @thinksaurabh
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Happy to share my Book Review on @venumaddipati's brilliant book "Gandhi and Architecture: A Time for Low-Cost Architecture" published by Contributions to Indian Sociology (Sage).
Venu's book is a thought-provoking work that rekindles the relevance of Gandhian ideals in the contemporary built environment and urbanisation discourse. #BookReview #Architecture #Housing #India #Gandhi #LaurieBaker
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Me with my doctoral scholars Rana Shinde and Srutinwita Roy at Visual Discourse and @IndiaHCI_ 2024 Conferences at @iitbombay #Design #HCI #CommunicationDesign #DesignInIndia
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Hosted Dimitry Kharshak and Ksenia Malich from @hsestpetersburg at Department of Design @iitdelhi for their lectures and workshop on Communication Design. Lectures were deep and the workshop was fun. #design
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📢 #CFP Alert!
Join us @icdhs14 New Delhi 🌍 for an exciting exploration of Cultures of Design! Submit your abstracts by Nov 1, 2024
🔗 Details: icdhs14.org
#DesignHistory #DesignStudies #ICDHS14 #DesignResearch #DesignConference #CallForPapers #CulturesOfDesign
ICDHS 14 New Delhi, the 14th edition of the International Conference on Design History and Design Studies, brings together the voices from various geographies and design domains of histories, traditions and practices.
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#ICDHS #DesignHistory #DesignStudies
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We have an Open Full-time PhD Position in UQ-IITD Research Academy for Indian, Australian and International Students for our Collaborative Project "Historical Context, Contemporary Practices, and Future Frameworks for Institutional Campus Design: ... 1/n
A Comparative Study with Indian and Australian Technical Institutes on Liveability, Sustainability, and Imageability".
See the Project Call here lnkd.in/gtxBNMCd
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Kohei Sugiura, the Brilliant.
Design (Japan), 56, 1964. Cover design by Kohei Sugiura designreviewed.com/artefacts… #koheisugiura #japanesedesign
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Champion Guy. #Kohli
Virat Kohli, Player of the T20 World Cup Final in the last match of his T20I career.
What a way to sign off 🏅
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Neither EV nor ICE, only a dense Public Transportation Infrastructure can address India’s Energy Crisis. Also enabling bicycling at inter-neighbourhood and intra-city levels can make us really sustainable. #publictransport
EV-GRID DISASTER | How our thoughtless EV policy is going to endanger India's future
A few days ago Transport Minister @nitin_gadkari said that Central Govt is planning to eliminate Petrol and Diesel vehicles by 2034 and replace them mostly with Electric Vehicles.
But if they are really serious about it, it is going to be a disaster-in-the-making for the country. Why do we say so? (1/n)
@WomensCricZone See this please
Once cricket was called gentlemen’s game. Not anymore, girls of my village in Almora Uttarakhand playing cricket in the same field where we used to play 15 years ago. Signs of hope for our society. Thanks to Lalit and other volunteers for the initiative
#womencricket
#almora
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I am excited to announce the award of the @iitdelhi @tudelft Collaborative Research Seed Funding. Grateful to have collaborated with @HiSamFranklin, a Design Historian, who co-articulated a proposal just hours before the deadline. Thankful to the internal and external reviewers.
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