Towards Post Post-Colonialism - India's Design Journey | Sujata Keshavan - Wednesday 5th @ 18.00

Collage of Nehru and Corbusier in Chandigarh by David Wild

Wednesday, March 5 at 6:00pm

National Gallery of Modern Art
Manekyavelu Mansion, 49 Palace Road Bengaluru – 560 052
 

As part of its quarterly lecture series, the Tasveer Foundation is delighted to present a talk by Sujata Keshavan. The talk will trace the evolution of modern design in India from independence to the present. Keshavan's own role as a practitioner dovetails with roughly half this period. Her views therefore are informed by observation and experience from working in the field, rather than through academic research. In this talk, Keshavan will consider the social, political and economic contexts against which design as a profession has evolved in this country. She will analyse the factors that have influenced this journey, from the fledgling experiments in nation building in the fifties, to the impact of economic liberalization, as well as of globalization and technology in the nineties and thereafter. She will also examine the relationships between art, craft, technology and design.

Sujata Keshavan graduated from Yale University with a Master of Fine Arts degree specializing in Graphic Design in 1987. Her undergraduate degree was from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. In 1989, she founded Ray+Keshavan Design, widely regarded as India’s most influential design firm which has consistently been ranked by The Economic Times as India’s No 1 company in  Brand Design. Ray+Keshavan was acquired by the WPP group in 2006 and is now part of the global design company, the Brand Union. Keshavan is regarded as a pioneer in developing the brand design industry in South Asia. 

Keshavan has received numerous awards and served on the jury of design competitions around the world, including the Cannes jury in 2010 and D&AD jury 2014. She is currently on the World Economic Forum’s Global Council on Design and Innovation.

 

We request you to be seated 10 minutes before the lecture.

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