The Culture Lab – an update
Team India Culture Lab
9 October 2020
Dear friends, the Covid pandemic has been unprecedented, and for our Culture Lab, it has meant that our on ground events have been unable to take place. In this context, our lab will now be going on a long sabbatical to re-imagine our purpose.
Continue ReadingSmruti Koppikar on Cities in Crises
Team India Culture Lab
28 August 2020
This year’s series of masterclasses for the Leadership Programme 2020 closed with a session by journalist and urban chronicler, Smruti Koppikar. Smruti talked to us about the cities, pandemics and the inequalities that bring on crisis points in cities particularly in relation to identity and nativist self-identification.
Continue ReadingAnushka Shah on media and civic participation
Team Culture Lab
15 August 2020
Our Lab team met MIT Media Lab researcher Anushka in 2018 when we collaborated for our first event together, ‘The Past, Present, and Future of Civic Entertainment in India’. The event marked the launch of the framework that uses entertainment media to encourage citizens to become active civic participants. We crossed paths again in 2019 for the event ‘Crime and Punishment in Indian Entertainment’, this time in collaboration with Civic Studios, Anushka’s brainchild and one of the most exciting media projects on the interwebs today. To speak more about the pioneering work that they’ve been doing in the Indian media landscape, Anushka joined us for a masterclass with our Leadership Programme batch of 2020 and a few Lab alums.
Continue ReadingCountdown to Queeristan | Parmesh’s Queer Reading List !
TEAM CULTURE LAB
11 August 2020
From memoirs, to fiction to anthology, here's a reading list to explore before Queeristan launches!
Continue ReadingBook Excerpt: Queeristan
Parmesh Shahani
7 August 2020
Lab head Parmesh Shahani’s new book Queeristan traces his journey of advocating for LGBTQ inclusion in corporate India, spanning across boardrooms, business schools, college campuses, cultural spaces, global conferences and more. In this excerpt, Parmesh reminisces about the people who have inspired his efforts as well as influenced his approach to authoring this book. Read on!
Continue ReadingPadmini Ray Murray on rethinking design practice
TEAM CULTURE LAB
7 August 2020
Padmini Ray Murray held a class with us that took us through her paradigm of ‘design thinking’. She’s a consultant researcher and creative practitioner who founded Design Beku, which is a collective that emerged from a desire to explore how technology and design can be more locally rooted, relevant, and ethical. Read on for video games and design justice!
Continue ReadingBook Excerpt: Those Magnificent Women and Their Flying Machines by Minnie Vaid
Minnie Vaid
30 July 2020
Author and Lab speaker Minnie Vaid’s book ‘Those Magnificent Women and Their Flying Machines’ provides a window into the largely unknown and unfamiliar world of women space scientists in India—their initial struggles, their work and its challenges, their families and their triumphs. Read on for an excerpt from the book.
Continue ReadingBridging the Gap: The Digital Gender Divide in the Times of Social Distancing
Lab Team
29 July 2020
Twitter chat leading upto our virtual #WomenInSTEM event!
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