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	A High Level Conclave bringing Design Thinking to the Challenge of Governance Innovation. March 18th, 2011 New Delhi + READ MORE



	Crowdsourcing a Planned Economy for India Elections are only the beginnings of democracy, not their end. The kind of government which is truly for the people must routinely ask after the welfare and needs of the people, and invite those views into the process of governance... + READ MORE



	When One Technology Mashes Up Against Another To ride a bike in Delhi is to rub up against structures of status and class hierarchy expressed through our respective modes of transport... + READ MORE



	CKS Hosts a Talk on ICT4D for Students from the University of Manchester CKS had the pleasure of hosting a group of students visiting from The University of Manchester for the fourth consecutive year... + READ MORE



	The Market for Meaning There is such deep pleasure in making things, and it is so fundamentally a part of what it means to be human... + READ MORE...



	The Way We Will Live Along with these technical and technological changes within the home, I also look forward to some interesting transformations in our social experience of the city... + READ MORE...



	The Role of Design Thinking in India's Innovation Century India is now on its way to becoming a knowledge economy powered by innovation, with the object of design becoming more ethereal, experiential, distributed and interactive... + Read more on Page 5...



	Will This Be India's Decade of Innovation? We need to start thinking about innovation in terms of being able to do things that were hitherto not only not possible, but not even conceivable... + READ MORE



	In The Future, We Will All Be Balinese Socio-technical innovations in the ways in which our multi-unit dwellings are designed may offer one set of solutions... + READ MORE



	Design and Innovation in Indian Classical Musical Instruments Despite its Vedic antecedents, Indian Classical music has changed and evolved continuously, with some of its most vibrant periods of innovation coming during periods of cultural contact, synthesis and fusion... + READ MORE



	Designing for India's Emerging Skymen and Skywomen This master of the four directions, this frequent flier, this mile-high club-member and prized patron of the travel industry has emerged as a type on account of an emerging culture of Indian aviation... + READ MORE



	On the Design of Public Water Interfaces Here in India, we have developed culturally specific techniques for using and interacting with taps, which are based on our prior cultures of drinking and sharing -- or not sharing -- water... + READ MORE



	The Design Legacy of the Ambassador Car In the India of my childhood, we socialised with two kinds of families, Fiat and Ambassador, depending on which kind of car they drove... + READ MORE



	What Does Design Mean in Emerging Economies? Some years ago, my fellow researchers at the Center for Knowledge Societies began thinking about India's place in the wider world... + READ MORE



	CKS at Start-Up Saturdays Mumbai CKS was invited to present its growth story at Start-Up Saturdays on 9th October 2010 in Mumbai, a social and support group for budding entrepreneurs... + READ MORE



	On The Role and Meaning of Brands in Society Turn on your TV and attempt a brief survey. So many of the most commonly promoted brands appear to celebrate consumption. They are associated with products that provide sugar, water, carbohydrates and some nutrients to thirsty-hungry bodies and minds... + READ MORE



	CKS back with a Voice: Charlotte Lapsansky Charlotte Lapsansky is collaborating with CKS. After her successful talk, ‘Mobile Voices,’ early this year, she now joins CKS to pursue a shared passion for developing innovative technologies that enable communities marginalized from resource access... + READ MORE



	PechaKucha ‘RBG’ Night at Delhi The PechaKucha ‘RGB’ hosted by CKS on 29th October 2010 was a successful interactive night with nine young domain speakers covering a wide range of colour experience stories... + READ MORE



	What Indians Want When They Fly Some years ago, my company was approached by an international aircraft manufacturing company to help them design aircraft cabins that would be better appreciated by Indian passengers... + READ MORE



	Love for the Meaning of Form The technology of vector drawing may be trivial, but the conceptual and cognitive virtuosity required to derive meaning from image, text, and spatial relationships... + READ MORE



	Pecha Kucha Night on 29th September 2010, Delhi Ubiquitous but instinctual, one hardly knows how the mind perceives colour. Superficially, colour creation, selection or appreciation may seem like they have very little of the method in them... + READ MORE



	The Colour of India's Collective Unconscious Some years ago, at my company CKS, we embarked on a large multiyear project for a client... + READ MORE



	CKS visit to Kitchen Budapest A talk on recent innovation activities to an independent new media research lab funded by Magyar Telekom for joint efforts to tackle challenges in Europe... + READ MORE



	CKS visit to the MBE Speech Lab in Budapest A shared interaction of research and development at CKS with new technologies developed by the Speech Lab relevant to the Indian context... + READ MORE



	The Parable of Metatechnology In these contemporary times we do not talk of metatechnology, but rather use the word ‘innovation’ to refer to the process of creating new technologies... + READ MORE



	Vaccine Delivery Innovation Report As noted by the World Health Organization, delivering safe and effective vaccines through an efficient delivery system is one of the most cost effective public health interventions... + READ MORE



	The Layman My gold and silver, the jewelry, they're in a bank locker, so that's safe. We have three hundred and fifty bigha-s of land, and mostly our servants are trustworthy, reliable. But there are bandits, dacoits, you can't be too safe... + READ MORE



	In Visible Cities It was not always this way, say the old Bangaloreans. This was once a beautiful garden city, almost a hill station, before you, we, the whole madness began... + READ MORE



	Designed to Succeed Business of Brands, Economic Times quotes Dr. Aditya Dev Sood in “Designed to Succeed”... + READ MORE



	On the Need for User-Centered Governance Innovation A decade on, while e-governance has become a normal mode for governments and agencies in India to transact, and practically represents a sub-sector within the IT industry... + READ MORE



	What India’s New Symbol for the Rupee Means The word ‘rupee’ is said to derive from the Sanskrit rupyakam, that which can be given another form... + READ MORE



	The Techno-Future and Pre-History of Toes I was riding the 2/3 to Brooklyn the first couple of days I was back, when I saw this guy in a baggy pair of shorts... + READ MORE



	Towards a Post-Human Manifesto The discipline of Anthropology teaches us that technology is something uniquely human... + READ MORE



	On the Creative Powers of Our Mind The other day, I was visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where I happened upon a public lecture by Dr. Kurt Behrendt.... + READ MORE



	At the Intersections of Design, Ethnography and Global Governance Once, in a very long while, there will be an occasion at which all that you have been doing is illuminated, organized in new terms, given new perspective... + READ MORE



	Tajikistan Mission visits CKS CKS had the honour of hosting an esteemed mission comprising of Presidential Advisors, eminent NGOs, Heads of Mobile Networks and E-health experts from Tajikistan... + READ MORE



	When Twenty Minds Work as One Last week, I was privileged to participate in a high-level conclave hosted by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research... + READ MORE



	The Question of Scale Back when I was in Architecture school, our professor brought in an old-style film projector... + READ MORE



	India’s design mavericks As a second in the five-part series on 'Design and Business' - Dr. Aditya Dev Sood featured in Mint, the Indian arm of the Wall Street Journal... + READ MORE



	Food System Design On 11th June 2010; Zack Denfeld from the Center for Genomic Gastronomy, will present a few projects that address the challenges facing... + READ MORE



	Design and the Redressal of Social Challenges Earlier this afternoon, I'd had my head on my table, and was drifting in and out of wakefulness... + READ MORE



	Talk on Mobile Voices On the 6th of May 2010, CKS played host to a research presentation on Mobile Voices... + READ MORE



	What Makes Designers Different? So long as I can remember, I was always aware that there are some special people... + READ MORE



	CKS at the Glen Cove Conference on Strategic Design and Public Policy CKS is participating at the Glen Cove Conference on Strategic Design and Public Policy in Glen Cove Mansion Hotel and Conference Center in New York... + READ MORE



	The Design of Experience After about a whole day's driving, we finally arrived at Rainforest House. The resort sits on the banks of the Ganga, north of Rishikesh, just a few kilometers north of Lakshman Jhula... + READ MORE



	In India Fashion Week, The Future of Indian Culture The history of Delhi can be told as a series of tents. The encampments of the Turks, of Babur, of Sher Shah Suri. Our architecture is the story of shamiana-s and kanath-s turning to stone... + READ MORE



	Fashion as a Metaphor Your correspondent has wrangled a place in the first elevated row, just behind the backless futons reserved for buyers... + READ MORE



	The Design of Invisible Things It is that time again, when we celebrate the complex ways in which bodies and things adorn one another... + READ MORE



	Do You Believe in Innovation? Hm, you wonder, what could this mean? Do I believe in air? Do I believe that innovation happens? Do I believe that more innovation should happen?... + READ MORE



	The Drawing of Architecture Consider the computer rendering above. It shows the roofline and courtyard of a building in some detail, including the qualities of tiling, vegetation, and varied wall finishes... + READ MORE



	Pecha Kucha Night at Jaaga Center for Knowledge Societies in collaboration with Jaaga pulled off a successful Pecha Kucha Night on the 26th of February. The evening saw the theme - Indian Innovation Stories... + READ MORE



	When the Shoe is on the Other's Foot Some years ago, I was walking around the lifestyle and fashion district of Milan, when I came upon a pair of sandals... + READ MORE



	The Truth in Wine Labels India's wine revolution is now fully underway, with over a dozen vineyards registered north of Bangalore and about 22 outside of Nasik, north-east of Mumbai... + READ MORE



	Design Diary I have been directed to a line that says C.P.L.P. for some reason. Most of the passengers around me are holding Brazilian passports... + READ MORE



	Pecha Kucha Night at KHOJ The theme for the evening, “Indian Innovation Stories”, will give us a brief peek into the innovations emerging in new India; the ways in which technology, media, physical and virtual spaces are being customized and contextualized to connect better... + READ MORE



	Information Communication Technology for Development in India CKS' interest in engaging with young minds led us to conduct an interactive session with a diverse group of students of the University of Manchester... + READ MORE



	‘How user-centered innovation can change the way you do business’ CKS is conducting an interactive innovation workshop in Collaboration with the India Design Festival under the 9^th Design Summit, on ‘How user-centered innovation can change the way you do business’... + READ MORE



	Pecha Kucha Night with ‘The Art & Design of The Book’ CUnder IDF(India Design Festival) 2009, CKS is once again hosting Pecha Kucha Night Delhi, in collaboration with British Council and CMYK, on 16th December... + READ MORE



	Abstract Backyard at CKS - Delhi CKS is proud to host a photographic exhibition, “Abstract Backyard” by Lohash Sood, from the 26th to the 29th of November, 2009 at the CKS House, New Delhi... + READ MORE



	Pecha Kucha Night at KHOJ The upcoming session of Pecha Kucha Delhi is being hosted by CKS in collaboration with KHOJ and British Council on the 15th of October, 2009. The theme for the evening- Public Works Department – Art/Infrastucture... + READ MORE



	Work of CKS Showcased in Lisbon CKS is being showcased among the seven key design houses around the world in the exhibition by ExperimentaDesign in Lisbon. Dr. Aditya Dev Sood from CKS has been invited by EXD and will share his thoughts on the inaugural day of the exhibition... + READ MORE + Experimenta Design LISBOA 2009



	‘Electronix City’ by CKS at AEDES’ Exhibition in Berlin Electronix City, a presentation by CKS on the transformations and translations that occur from rural areas to urban environments, is being showcased at AEDES’ exhibition titled ‘What makes India Urban’ in Berlin, Germany... + READ MORE



	Catalytic Possibilities around New Media by Professor Ramesh Srinivasan On 5th June, 2009; Dr. vasan, Assistant Professor in UCLA, Department of Information Studies, visited CKS to share with our clients, alumni and internal team, his experience around working with ethnically-diverse populations... + READ MORE



	Book Release by Sridala Swami On the 26th of July 2007, CKS played host to the launch and book release of the eminent film editor, critic and a Friend of CKS, Sridala Swami... + READ MORE



	Dikhtatone CKS’ interest in developing a dynamic cultural community in Bangalore, lead us to an evening of an open house discussion on art, culture and creativity in Bangalore... + READ MORE



	Pecha Kucha at Bangalore The Pecha Kucha night was hosted by CKS in collaboration with Naresh Narasimhan of Venkatramanan Associates in Bangalore...



	Pecha Kucha at Delhi The Pecha Kucha night was hosted by CKS in collaboration with British Council, in Delhi on 25 January 2007 at the India Habitat Center...



	Doors of Perception 9 CKS produced the famous Doors of Perception Design Conference... + READ MORE



	Used around the World! CKS researchers and designers have been traveling all around the world... + READ MORE



	CKS at Technology Horizons Program Conference by IFTF Dr.Aditya Dev Sood, founder of CKS presented at the... + READ MORE



	'Used in India' at Lille 3000 Dr.Aditya Dev Sood, Sayalee Joshi and Karthikeya Acharya gave presentations... + READ MORE + www.lille3000.com



	Pecha Kucha hosted by CKS Naresh Narasimhan of Venkatramanan Associates and Dr.Aditya Dev Sood of the Center for Knowledge Societies are pleased to invite you to the inaugural PECHA KUCHA BANGALORE! + READ MORE



	Mobile Monday at CKS CKS hosted Bangalore’s second Mobile Mondays event on the 28th of August 2006... + READ MORE



	CKS Talk: Molly Wright Steenson CKS hosted a talk by Molly Steenson on 'Fun places and Mobile architecture'... + READ MORE



	CKS Workshop: Sound Design by Sophia Lerner CKS hosted workshop on sound design by Sophia Lerner... + READ MORE



	Juice: Doors Ideation Workshop at CKS An ideation workshop was held at CKS in June 2006 on the theme of ‘JUICE’! + READ MORE



	'Used in India' at Aula Klubi, Helsinki Dr.Aditya Dev Sood, founder of CKS, presented findings from the ‘Used in India’... + READ MORE



	CKS Artist in Residence: Zack Denfeld Zack Denfeld, of University of Michigan, Ann Arbor was Artist and Scholar in Residence at CKS in May and June 2006... + READ MORE



	CKS Artist in Residence: Welcome party Zack Denfeld, Artist and Scholar in Residence, stunned people... + READ MORE



	Used in India at the Mal Au Pixel Festival in Paris The ‘Used in India’ was presented at the Pixelache... + READ MORE



	Doors Night New Delhi A planning and ideation meeting for Doors 9... + READ MORE



	Doors Night Beijing An extraordinarily diverse group of artists, curators, designers, and... + READ MORE



	Is Light the First Form of Media? CKS Celebrates Diwali CKS hosted a party to celebrate Diwali... + READ MORE



	CKS Lecture at Dhvanyaloka Uma Chandrasekharan spoke at Dhvanyaloka... + READ MORE



	Doors Night Helsinki In collaboration with Pixelache, CKS hosted Doors Night Helsinki... + READ MORE



	Doors Night London CKS and the Doors of Perception Foundation hosted Doors Night London... + READ MORE



	Doors of Perception 8 CKS co-hosted Doors of Perception 8 INFRA, the international Design conference... + READ MORE


	Used in India Used in India, a multimedia installation, showcases media devices designed and used in India... + READ MORE


	MEX the PMN Mobile user experience conference Our CEO Dr.Aditya Dev Sood was a speaker at the MEX, the PMN Mobile User Experiences conference on 6-7 of September 2005... + www.pmn.co.uk/mex

CKS is a research and design practice that works in the area of media and technology. It uses variety of innovative social research tools, to understand user needs and practices to fine tune existing products and services and conceptualize altogether new technologies.
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Our clients include technology houses and service networks that are increasingly catering to the needs of first-time users of technology. We currently have offices in Bangalore and New Delhi.
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Apart from its contractual work CKS has initiated a number of public domain initiatives such as Learning Lab which explores the possibility of using mobile devices in innovative ways to significantly enhance school education.
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	Pecha Kucha “Copyright ” Night on 25th February, Bengaluru + READ MORE