IIID and Mother Earth summit on Sustainable Design

Mother Earth has joined forced with the Indian Institute of Interior Designers to host an event on Sustainable Design. It has been an interesting project to create the Sustainable Design presentation for my father Jacob Mathew, one of the keynote speakers along with Katarine from the Savana Institute of Design. The presentation included references to conscious consumption, social business and how to do less with more as well as a screening of "The Story of Stuff".

How do we create a new paradigm of development

Consumption = development
to
Conscious consumption
=
Sustainable development

Owning things = happiness
to
Fulfillment = happiness

And other key questions:

How do we do more with less?
Do minimum harm?
Use less energy and resources?
Be passive?
Tread lightly

Chris Lydon and the New India

Host of the Radio Podcast, “Radio Open Source”, Chris Lydon is down in India doing a special series on the “New India” an interviewing leading members in the fields of politics, government, conservation, education and business. It has been an absolutely pleasure having Chris and home and watching him absorb as much as he possible can about the new developments and the old history all housed in the enormously complex country that is India. Chris’s sound specialist Paul, is also keeping a keen eye on developments as they occur and provides valuable insights and key questions as the interviews progress. The interviews have been engaging, thought provoking and passionate, held in the library (which doubles as my bedroom) where the acoustic qualities are just right due to the sound absorbing bookshelves. Chris is currently on the road travelling down south to Trivandrum to visit more, intriguing Indians. Check out Chris Lydon at http://www.radioopensource.org/ and his bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lydon.

Summer Plans

Summer 2010

Schedule:

June 12th - Return to India
June 20th - Leave for Himalays (Trekking to 1500 meters in the uttaranchal part of the himalyas)
July 4th - return to bangalore
July 12th - Begin work at idiom.
July 17th - 19th Travel to Orissa to work on Water Chlorination project
July 25th - travel to Kutch to work on rural artisanal project
August 29th - leave for stanford
September 6th - leave for peru
September 21st - restart classes at stanford

Projects:

1. anjna - Patient Education NGO - design strategy and free clinic coordinator, anjna board member
2. Ecoconfluence - expansion of business operations
3. SI group - construction of design education syllabus and workshops - collaborating with SPREAD, NODES and DKN
4. Social Entrepreneurship Incubation projects - consulting for 5 individual social entrepreneur organizations
5. Education reform at MAIS - project observation

Current Contact Info

SKYPE: nishant.jacob,jonathan.mathew
Email: nishantj@stanford.edu
Phone: +91 9880707846