Banagalore, December 2008: In 2003, in a Nokia design workshop on designing tools for children and their grandparents, I meet Geetha Narayanan. Geetha has an impressive presence around her even
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Geetha Narayanan
Director of Srishti School of Art Design and Technology in Bangalore
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Geetha Narayanan has been at the forefront of the developing digital industry in Bangalore, India’s renowned ICT centre for several decades now. Being the founder and director of the Srishti School
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Geetha Narayanan has lived in Bangalore since the 50’s and has witnessed how public funding in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s made Bangalore India’s technology and engineering centre. In those
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The learning environment of Srishti is an open environment; always in a state of flux, there is a survival of the fittest, and there are new ideas, which are constantly allowed to be seeded. And
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When suggesting that technology actually functions as a social engineering tool, Narayanan disagrees with this formulation. It is too much like there is a utopia that has been determined and we are
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Narayanan expects that a huge feminine gender based transformation will take place in India over the next 20 years. Women will be empowered to be able to take care of their families and have a
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Geetha Narayanan argues it is time to question our systems of knowledge. Professional life gets more and more dependent on keeping virtual identities going: 100 % blogging, 100% FaceBook and 100%
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The complexity paradigm of self-organization, complexity, co-evolution, adaptation, all words that come out of Santa Fee, has been the dominant paradigm for the last decades and Narayanan wants to
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Full transcript including film fragments you find at: http://www.systemsdesign.tbm.tudelft.nl/witness
Hereunder the transcript in text.
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