Social Capital is an important outcome of any design process. Designers should seek more from it. In the age of smart devices and systems, we seem to forget about the social capital, for our notion of being 'social' itself has changed. In the context of Social Enterprise, we have to rely on it a lot more, for working in the development sector comes with its own set of challenges.
These are the slides from my today's talk at Adobe India (Noida) office. 17th August 2016.
1. DESIGN & SOCIAL CAPITAL
@kshitiz , Adobe, Noida, 17th August, 2016
2. CURRENTLY
Managing Trustee @ Happy Horizons Trust
Dean / Director @ L’école de design Nantes Atlantique (India Studio)
Principal Designer @ Happy Horizons Consulting
PREVIOUSLY
Director, The Design Village
Design Manager & Strategist, Kuliza Technologies
UI Designer at Motorola, Infosys
STUDIED AT
BDes, Communication Design, IIT Guwahati, 2005
MS, Interaction Design, Indiana University, 2009
3. ‘Social Capital’ is the network of relationships among people who
live and work in a particular society, enabling the society to function
properly.
Transactions are marked by reciprocity, trust and cooperation.
7. Design is all around us
How can it help in improving the quality of life
8. From education to women empowerment to poverty reduction
The pressing problems of today
9. Unemployable graduates
Lack of skills
Malnutrition
Bad traffic in cities
Urban chaos
Lack of healthcare facilities
Pollution
…
the list could go on!
10. More challenges for designer
How may we create large scale impact through our solutions
11. We face a shortage of designers in
India
Just about 4000 design graduates per year
13. We face a severe crisis of good
designers in India
How do you define someone as a good designer?
14. Trust, reciprocity and cooperation
How do we build design solutions that are based on the above
15. As we move to a more connected world, full of
gadgets and systems that are smarter than us, we
designers question the very foundation of these new
systems and solutions we are building, for its ability
to solve a problem and a potential to create long
lasting impact.
51. We need to value Social Capital
created for or by our designs!
It should come naturally to us!
52. Outreach of Happy Horizons Trust
Working with 40 schools across the country
6 districts in Bihar, 1 in Karnataka, 1 in Bengal
Programs outreaching over 27000 students
Digital literacy program to over 250 students
Over 1500 students benefited from Career Awareness Seminars