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17-25 October 2026

What do we REALLY know?

A call for culturally-inclusive global growth of social design.

Hosted by Tanishqa Bobde

This project is now archived and was part of DDW20

Culture influences how we engage with the world and thereby, influences social design. This exhibit presents Indian cultural nuances related to social design and then guides designers to relook at design basics so we can be more sensitive to social design growth in other cultures.
India is a developing country with a large scope for social design interventions. However, social design as a field hasn't developed in India as it has in the West. Understanding the contrast in Western and Indian cultural nuances can sensitise us, and ev

About Tanishqa Bobde

Tanishqa Bobde is a freshly graduated product-service system designer and human-centred design researcher from India. She has experience working with design thinking in India, Armenia and the Netherlands. She is curious to work with multidisciplinary teams in different cultures and create impact through design. She is passionate about speculative design and believes that visualising and conversing about the future is the first step towards getting there.

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