Workshop on Sustainability for students:
International Design Workshop on 'Sustainability' for Students:
3rd, 4th and 5th of November 2009
(Entry through competition)
Venue: IDC, IIT Bombay
Number of participants: limited to 150 (entry through competition)
Number of International Leaders/facilitators: 8
Number of National Leaders/facilitators: 8
Theme:
The three day workshop promises to be filled with high energy interactive sessions with lots of enthusiasm to search, ideate, discuss and design. Students from 25 countries are expected to participate. The workshop is meant to address and solve sustainability related problems. The students will work with international and national leaders on this subject.
Leaders/facilitators:
International and National leaders will lead and guide the student teams for two days:
1st Day – Need Finding and Analysis, 2nd Day – Concepts and 3rd Day - Execution and presentation.
Procedure for selecting student participants:
100 - 150 students winning this competition will be entitled to free participation (workshop expenses, food and stay*) during the ‘International Student Workshop’ from 3rd to 5th of November 2009.
Competition:
The theme of the event ‘In a Planet of our own – a vision of sustainability’ based on practices, projects, narratives and stories from your own culture, context and environment. This is to be interpreted and represented as a visual inside a circle (of diameter 1200 pixels).
We encourage you to express the characteristics, motifs, stories or designs from your own context as related to issues of sustainability.
The task is to design a visual with the above theme expressed inside a 'circle'
You could use illustrations, sketches, photos, graphics and typography. The output could be a symbol, logo, poster or a composition.
Submissions:
You need to submit the solution as 72 dpi JPEG file with an image size of 1200 x 1200 pixels
along with a brief write-up in less than 150 words along with the entry.
and email these to:
inaplanetofourown@idc.iitb.ac.in
or snail mail to:
Workshop - in a planet of our own
IDC, IIT Bombay
Powai, Mumbai
400076
India
Last Date:
30th September 2009
Details:
- Studios, materials and facilities for the workshop will be provided at IDC, IIT Bombay.
- The students have to bear the expenses of their travel to Mumbai
- * Students chosen to participate at the workshop will be accommodated free in Hostels/Guest Houses around the IIT Bombay Campus on the 3rd, 4th and 5th of November 2009. (The stay can be exptended for the duration of the International Design conference on the 6th and 7th of November 2009 by paying nominal charges (Rs. 150 or US $ 4.00 per day for hostel accommodation and Rs. 1500 for guest house accommodation) at the venue)
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