The Unbox Festival celebrates interdisciplinary processes and experiences that shape contemporary thought and action. UnBox manifests itself as a blend of different events – including a conference, workshops, exhibitions and performances – designed in sync with one another, to stimulate thought, debate and action.
First day _ The method involved generating and reviewing stories of life in the Chandni Chowk area of old Delhi, prioritizing and refining design ideas with the help of festival participants, and realizing a working design response.
100 ideas for a physical app. Here's our team along with other volunteers and participants at Unbox giving their inputs to finally decide upon one idea to implement.
The idea was to create public awareness of uncomfortable or harassing behavior by sending a text to a pre-assigned number. The text triggered a bell on the bird table to ring, frightening off any feeding birds and sending a twitter feed to phones nearby.
Workshop was headed by UCLan’s Paul Egglestone, Jon Rogers from Dundee, Justin Marshall from Falmouth and Surrey University’s David Frohlich, who flew to New Delhi to ‘anchor’ one of the biggest Design festivals in India with an exercise in Insight Journalism.
The scattering of real birds was seen as a metaphor for the scattering of messages on Twitter. The concept speaks to public concern over the recent Delhi rape case, and suggests that design may have its own part to play in addressing social issues.
