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25 Aug 2022

Industry Lecture Series 2021

Title: Comedy filmmaking
Comedy in Advertising and the experience of doing a long-form series. The role of a director in advertising, questions surrounding the process of creating an advertisement, and long-form content.

Sukriti is a filmmaker, based in Mumbai. After finishing her master’s at the National Institute of Design, she began her directorial career in 2015 with advertising. Since then she has gone on to work with clients like Pepsi, Google, One Plus, Perfetti, amongst others. She has recently made her foray into long-form with a sketch comedy series that she directed for Sony Liv. She is presently co-writing a young adventure comedy and producing a fiction podcast. Her other interests include miniature photography and writing about herself in third person.

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Title: Republics of Design
Through the title ‘Republics of Design’, Jogi Panghaal introduces the idea that there are multiple and different universes of design that exist in the world and so do in India. He will explore and share more about the republic he lives and works in through the talk

Jogi Panghaal  is a designer, teacher, and thinker with a special focus on the role of design in social innovation and sustainable livelihoods creation.
His research, learning, and co-creation experience focuses on the sources and design methodologies of craftspeople, and how craftsmanship and traditional artisan communities can be an inspiration for sustainable design of products and services in modern societies. Jogi has been working in the field since 1979 after graduating in Product Design from National Institute of Design (NID). He works to provide product and strategic design services to artisanal communities. He has worked with NGOs and State Governments in Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Bengal, Orissa, Kashmir and Gujarat. For many years, he was a key contributor to the design research platform Doors of Perception Foundation, now based in France. He has taught at several design schools in India, as well as international institutions including Les Ateliers Paris and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam. He lives between Ahmedabad and Delhi.

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Title: Art History’s impact on Design Discipline
India boasts of her unique art historical and cultural diversity and to witness such magnitude of the cultural diversity of the folklores, arts and crafts defies the mainstream imaginations built by the so -called academic art & design world. The discipline of Art History might vary from social, ritualistic or of narrative tradition but they all contain vibrant & enigmatic sense in it . In glossy and glazing capitalism the cultural diversity which we study in Art History is marked by anonymity and yet to receive its due recognition. In this talk Mr. Aditya is going to examine the binaries that needs to be challenged through existing theoretical perspective where we have to shed the widely prevalent ”mainstream” cultural baggage of all these great art & design thinking where the modern art institutions needs to incorporate theory and practice of Art History into art education curricular and also its a time of self-questioning self-examination and self-awareness about the revival, sustenance and future of the timeless traditions of what we study in Art History.

 

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Title: Natural History filmmaking in India

• Documentary filmmaking industry in India, how it is different from the West
• Natural History Filmmaking basics: Pitching the idea, Production, Permissions, Scope of business
• Challenges of the Wilderness
• Cutting Edge Tech: Camera traps, Drones, Gyro-stabilised gimbals, Transmission systems, etc.
• Behind-the-scenes Experiences
• Career: How to start

Nishant Kapoor, Engineer by qualification, Filmmaker by calling. Nishant has been a part of Disney Nature’s film based on the life of Tigers, produced by 5-time Emmy Award nominee Mark Linfield. He helps with liaisons, permissions and assists the crew in the field, research, and story development. Wearing the shoes of a cameraman, he has been setting up Motion-sensing camera traps, also filming Landscapes and Behind-the-scenes for the project. The film is set to release in April 2022. In October 2020 he joined John Downer Productions as Cameraman and Field Producer for their 5-part blue-chip Wildlife series titled Jungles, slated to release in 2023.

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Title: Showcasing the spiritual beauty of Indian classical dance and other temple arts

Sruthi Mohan an accomplished and well trained classical dancer who is the Founder and Creative Director of Tat Tvam Asi, a boutique art organization in Austin, Texas, created specifically to curate and present works of internationally acclaimed Indian classical dancers touring the US. She currently serves as the Cultural Committee Chair of the Austin Hindu Temple and aims to showcase the spiritual beauty of Indian classical dance and other temple arts. She also shares her passion for dance by writing about dance, appearing on radio and TV talk shows to promote and educate a wide and diverse audience about Indian Classical Dance. She was invited by the prestigious dance institution, Jacob’s  Pillow, a treasured 220 acre National Historic Landmark. Apart from being a dancer and a dance presenter she is also a Co curator for the Erasing Borders Festival of Indian Dance, New York.

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Title: Experience within Design industry

Apeksha Appaiah is UI/UX designer. She has done her post graduation from MIT Institute of design Pune in Graphic Design. After completing her graduation project with Dyworks, Mumbai, she Started her career at Palasa design studio then moved to Tata Elxsi. For 7 years her projects have included the strategy and design of brands, identity, publications, packaging, environments, events and other projects ranging across multiple media. Her clients are some of the world’s best-known private and public sector brands such as Unilever, Marico, Taj, Grand Hyatt Danone, Walmart, Gulf Oil, Den Hotels to name a few. Her work at Tata Elxsi helped bag them the prestigious Indi Pool award for ‘Project of the Year’ award with her team work for ‘The Den Bengaluru’. Currently, she works with Progress Software, Hyderabad as the UI design Lead.

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Title: Wildlife conservation

Rajnish Kumar Singh is currently the Deputy Conservator of Forests and is stationed at the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department headquarters at Bhopal. Academically he is a Master’s in Statistics, following which he joined the Forest Services in 1997. He started with a 2-year training module at Balaghat, followed by various training at Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, and CASFOS (Central Academy for State Forest Services) at Forest Research Institute, Dehradun. He has served in various capacities in the wildlife areas of MP, namely Pench, Satpuda, and Kanha; as well in several other territorial divisions over the last two decades. His primary interest lies in wildlife conservation-related issues and is always proactive in providing factual information regarding wildlife in print as well as social media. His interest in designs resulted in the world-famous antler arch of Kanha, it also reflects in the various souvenirs, promotional materials, and restoration of old buildings done under his leadership. He currently oversees the Madhya Pradesh Tiger Foundation Society workings, which primarily creates awareness for various conservation initiatives undertaken by the state forest department.

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Title: Street Art (Murals)

Ranjith Dahiya is an artist and designer with over 22 years of experience in street art projects and 14 years of experience in communication design projects. He is the founder of Bollywood Art Project (BAP), BAP is an urban street art project to celebrate Bollywood through painting large murals in the streets. Currently Mr Dahiya is a Visiting lecturer at Balwant Sheth School of Architect (BSSA) NIMS University Mumbai. His several works have been recognized worldwide. His work has been showcased in several galleries, few of them are History of Bollywood an Exhibition in Durban (South Africa), History of Bollywood an Exhibition at La Rochelle (South France) and many more. He has also been speaking on the podiums and encouraging people.

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Title: Communities, Culture & Conservation

Vidya Venkatesh made her passion for wildlife conservation into her profession a decade ago. She currently works as a Director for the Last Wilderness Foundation, an NGO which focuses on conservation projects pertaining to Human-Wildlife coexistence, by working with communities living around the forests in Central India. Apart from working with the other communities, her pivotal work has been with the Pardhis, a traditional hunting community & the Baiga tribe, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group who are both dependent on the forests. She works in partnership with the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department and the communities. She was also the Project Coordinator for the Mumbaikars for SGNP project (Phase 1), which is a Citizen’s project for managing the Human-Leopard conflict in Mumbai.

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Title: Aesthetics Mindset
An approach to enhance our understanding of seeing beauty in Everyone and Everything.

Ankur Khare has been working with the school education for more than a decade now, worked as the Design facilitator at the renowned school like ‘The Doon School’ and currently inculcating his passion to the young students at the The Royal Academy, Bhutan. Working with Corporates, Universities and Schools has given him a diverse approach in looking at education from different perspectives. As a seasoned Professional with a rich and varied background in Art and Design, and an alumnus of NID Ahmedabad. He is passionate when it comes to Art and Design and it gives him a great satisfaction to explore materials to its fullest. An outdoor person who loves to do nothing when out in nature.

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Title: Data in Pixel
How to turn complex data sets into beautiful, simple images that help see unseen patterns and connections. How to design and build tools that empower the users to understand and use data to make better data-driven decisions.

Mustafa Saifee is a data visualizer and UX designer based in Helsinki. Currently, I am working as a Sr. UX Designer for Data-intensive applications at Aiven. He has vast experience designing complex applications and tools used in data-driven decision-making. He has worked with the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti, designing and developing dashboards for National Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis, a policy tool used to identify and quantify child deprivation. He has a Master’s in Visual Communication Design (focus on information design) from Aalto University (Finland), and a Bachelors and Masters from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (India) in electrical engineering.