India

CONQUEST OF THE USELESS & SPECULATIONS ON THE USEFUL

Let us come away together from this, for a bit, and try to figure out how it all seems from a distance. Let us put some distance between this and us, and see how this appears. And while we are at it, let us take a look at the perch as well.

This, that, the perch and us; is the long and short of everything we will explore

1. THIS

This is where we are right now, all of us. This is our city and our forest, our river and our sewer, our air

DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIAL INNOVATION WORKSHOP

The MIT India Initiative is a not-for-profit effort of students and alumni from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to delve into pressing problems in novel, challenging contexts, and tackle these with technology and design. This is a first of its kind workshop where mentors from multiple departments of MIT and Harvard will work with talented participants chosen from all across India to design solutions to some of today's most pressing challenges.

The workshop will be held in Mumbai, India facilitating participants to work on solutions that cut across boundaries of cultures, disciplines, and institutions.