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Guest Lecture
Crafting Alternate Futures with Design
Babitha George
Online Event
17 April 2024, 10:00
Babitha George is a director at Quicksand. She has worked on evolving design methods for research with vulnerable communities in India, for participation and co-design. She is also one of the co-founders of UnBox Cultural Futures, a platform bringing together efforts around social change, art & culture, thoughtful design and open research. Babitha is on the Advisory Board of the Victor Papanek Foundation and a member of the Mozilla Foundation’s first cohort of ‘Network50’, for outstanding work in Internet health. George shares reflections on how to build more caring and resilient design practice through actively engaging with the contextual richness, uniqueness and specificity of place-based conditions.