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Book Review

All that is Product Melts into service. Book – Designing for Service: Key Issues and New Directions, edited by Daniella Sangiorgi and Alison Prendiville. 

Conference Paper

A new beginning for teaching Design for Sustainability. I borrow Dolezel ’s notion of Heterocosmica (1998) to describe this trajectory, which is a theoretical discourse on the notion of the narrative world …

Journal Article

Could the sacred be, whatever its variants, a two-sided formation?
Design Philosophy Papers

Book

Quality through industrial design: A dialogue between designers from Italy and India begun in November 1990. Alberto Cannetta & Soumitri Varadarajan

Report

“Universities today are an essential feature of our civilisation. It is almost as if developed human societies cannot do without them.”
School of Design Proposal, Delhi University.

Book Chapter

“This is the liminal space, neither inside nor outside but in-between, a transitional space separating the two parts of the house.”  My Grandfathers House

Other

Military Pedagogy

… all pedagogy is military pedagogy to the extent knowledge and education are used as weapons.

Your Inner Entrepreneur

You too could take a shot at finding and growing your inner entrepreneur.

I Love Drawing

A session of drawing can be set up by preparing your temperament.

The Illicit and the Ad Hoc

The inability of taking into the narrative of a creative practice the simultaneities of ‘the other’ is the tragedy of the ‘assimilationist’ paradigm of elite creative practice.

Remote Rural Poor

The current practice of service design fails when used to develop services for poor and marginalized communities.

Homelessness

I proposed the notion that by ‘occupying’ the cities of Australia the Homeless has shown us a ground up solution – the tent city!

More

I write on Learner Centered Education, Industrial Design and Health Service Design. I am am currently writing a book & negotiating with publishers for future books.

Research Gate

Here are the links to my Research Gate, & to my Academia sites. Where you can find and download other pieces I have written.

Campaign Projects Blog

I see my projects as Campaigns. This blog captures my thoughts on the change I would like to be a part of.

Soumitri Laoshi Blog

I practice learner centered pedagogy, and I write about progressive and alternative ways of doing teaching.