Art & Design in Urban India: New Media Pedagogy and Design Ethnography in Bangalore (1 PM. Room 125)

A guy gets on to a plane and lands in India. His contact person has gone to Finland for two weeks, and he is lost in the outsourcing capital of the world with little money and no place to stay. Hilarity ensues.

Two years later he discovers that he has launched a graduate program in ‘experimental media’, published a business report on designing for the emerging markets and is totally burnt out. So he moves to Portland, Oregon.

Now the story can be told in all its optically rotting glory. If ‘Slum Dog Millionaire’ piqued your interest or you want to find out whether the dragon or the elephant is going to overtake Uncle Sam, this is the talk for you.

Surely, a Q&A will follow to clear up all of the contradictions that are produced by living in the dangerous symphony that is contemporary urban India.