On a typical Saturday morning in Bangalore, a small group of design practitioners and product folk got together at the Fusion Charts office in Koramangala. They were attending an informal round table discussion on the topic ‘Design driven innovation to help make the world a more beautiful and pleasurable place.’
As part of a design tour being organized by the Danish Government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Eskild Hanson (a prominent Danish designer) was visiting Delhi and Bangalore. Members of iSpirit, Indian designers and design thinkers were invited to meet and engage with him on areas of common interest.
Eskild is a part of the Danish government strategic think tank that is developing and strategizing the ‘Danish Design Society.’
His previous workplaces include CISCO and Coloplast.
At CISCO, Eskild was responsible for establishing their first European Design Center in Copenhagen and during this period helped bring a fresh air to their previously ‘boring and bulky’ Wireless Routers. He won a Red Dot in 2011 for one of his designs.
More about his work at www.eskildhansen.com
Here are a few pictures capturing the event:
- Participants introduce themselves at the start of the event
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- Eskild talks about a trend in executive roles – CCO (Chief Creative Officer) / CDO (Chief Design Officer)
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- Making a point about the importance of competing on factors apart from price, features and technology. (COMPAL and Quanta Computer – Virtually unknown – but producers of most of the worlds laptops!)
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- Technology as an ‘enabler of innovation’ (As opposed to ‘driver of innovation’)
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- User Research – A tool to drive and validate innovation.
The interactive session was a great forum to hear each other’s thoughts on topics related to design and design thinking.
It also gave participants an opportunity to learn more about the Danish Design approach and their innovation related initiatives in India – www.icdk.um.dk.
To know more about the session, check out this sketch note created by Rasagy Sharma, an NID student – https://twitter.com/rasagy/status/407165458303836161/photo/1/large
