Tag: evolution

Living with microbes

Nandini Dholepat
The Backyard Discovery group learns about the many roles of bacteria and how they shape our world: there are some that heal, others that harm, and quite a few that even help plants grow.

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Looking into a microscopic world

Nandini Dholepat
The Backyard Discovery group delves into the microscopic world of algae, fungi, and protozoa to learn how even the tiniest organisms play a vital role in keeping whole ecosystems alive.

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Spectres: Outlining the fragments of a future to come

George Panicker
This piece presents the voice of a design graduate. It raises questions about why design means what it does today. The most important question here is the question of the future. What it holds and how design will respond to it. As we paint a picture for design to enter schools, the piece creates awareness about the mutating nature of the discipline and how we need to be wary of it. The piece creates an urgency to equip ourselves with the changing definitions of design, especially as technology is evolving and the value that design has to offer is evolving with it.

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What is Design?

Charles and Ray Eames
Design is a fairly new imagination in India. It’s not that it didn’t exist, but it wasn’t recognized as such. Keeping its founding story in mind, what is the genesis of design education? Who are the important people, places? What are the milestones in its evolution to the shape and form it has taken today? We find out in this illustrated story.

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