Dear Gordon Rowland
I would be interested. We are organising many conferences in India on
design and this may be of use to keep it focussed and interesting. This
year a local list called [log in to unmask] is co-sponsoring
the 'Design with India" conference.
I am leaving for Pune today to attend the Pune Design Festival on 17th
& 18th November and on 4th and 5th December we have the CII NID Design
Summit with the Theme "Design with India", all of which may need
redesign and can be made interesting and effective.
<<http://www.ciionline.org/designwithindia/>>
We are hoping to see many people from the world design community at
these meets, and we hope that some from this list too would join us,
with ideas for new formats and activities.
With warm regards
M P Ranjan
from my office at NID
16 November 2006 at 12.55 pm IST
Prof M P Ranjan
Faculty of Design
Head, Centre for Bamboo Initiatives at NID (CFBI-NID)
Chairman, GeoVisualisation Task Group (DST, Govt. of India) (2006-2008)
Faculty Member on Governing Council (2003 - 2005)
National Institute of Design
Paldi
Ahmedabad 380 007 India
Tel: (off) 91 79 26623692 ext 1090 (changed in January 2006)
Tel: (res) 91 79 26610054
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On 16-Nov-06, at 6:13 AM, Gordon Rowland wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> A brief comment on the conversation theme. About 25 years ago, members
> of the systems science community recognized that they were getting
> more accomplished on the breaks than in the sessions of their
> conferences. Consequently, they declared a permanent break and created
> formal events in which conversation in small groups was the primary
> mode. I attended a dozen or so in California and Austria and found the
> experiences far more enriching than other professional conferences. I
> (and others on this list who I know attended) can provide links and
> literature if anyone is interested.
>
> Gordon Rowland
> Ithaca College
>
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