Letters to the Future
Cumulus | Bengaluru 2017
MONDAY ~ November 20, 2017
TIME
8:00 ~ 9:00 am
9:00 ~ 9:30 am
10:00 ~ 11:00 am
11:00 ~ 11:30 am
11:30 am ~ 12:30 pm
12:30 ~ 1:30 pm
1:30 ~ 2:00 pm
2:30 ~ 7:00 pm
* The Kabir Project is housed at Srishti (www.kabirproject.org/profile/shabnam virmani)
**SECMOL is Students’ Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh. (www.secmol.org) and HIAL is Himalayan Institute of
Alternatives, Ladakh (www.hial.co.in)
Proposed Design Studio Visits
BANGALORE – NORTH
Darshan Shankar
Foundation for the Revival
of Local Health Traditions
Dhananjay Sharma
Team Indus
Jayashree Poddar
Himatsingka Seide
Sonia Manchanda
SPREAD Design
TUESDAY ~ November 21, 2017
TIME
9:30 to 11:00 am
11:00 to 11:30 am
11:30 to 1:00 pm
1:00 to 2:00 pm
EVENT
Registration
Opening Ceremony
Keynote: Shabnam Virmani (Artist in Residence and Director, The Kabir Project*)
Title: Time.Less
Signup for Walks &
Coffee Break Media Shack Workshops
Proposals for UnConferences
Keynote: Sonam Wangchuk (Engineer, Innovator, Educator and Founder, SECMOL & HIAL**)
Title: Ice, Sun and Earth
Lunch Media Shack Signup for UnConference
Group Departures for Design Studio Visits (by Metro or Bus)
Design Studio Visits
Dinner in town on your own
(list of suggested restaurants serving local and regional cuisine will be provided)
BANGALORE – CENTRAL BANGALORE – EAST BANGALORE – SOUTH/WEST
Arzu Mistry Michael Foley Navrun Jacob
Art in Transit Foley Designs MindTree
Jyoti Thyagarajan Narendra Ghate Shriya Kariappa
Meghshala Tata Elxsi Industree Foundation
Poonam Bir Kasturi
Daily Dump
Runjhun Pacholi
Idiom Design
Sharukh Mistry
Mistry Architects
EVENT
“Occupy Academia:
Dismantling the Journal”
Parallel Sessions UnConference
Session: Ph.D aspirants, (Letters to the Future) (Including Working Groups)
Doctoral and Research
Scholars
Coffee Break
“Occupy Academia:
Dismantling the Journal”
Parallel Sessions UnConference
Session: Ph.D aspirants, (Letters to the Future) (Including Working Groups)
Doctoral and Research
Scholars
Lunch
1
 Pradyumna Vyas
Director, National Institute of Design and “The Colour of My Home”:
2:00 to 3:00 pm A Film on displacement, hope
Member Secretary, India Design Council
shares vision and policies for India and rebuilding relationships
Discussion with Filmmaker
Parallel Sessions
2:00 to 4:00 pm Sanjay Barnela
(Letters to the Future)

4:00 to 5:30 pm High Tea with Members of ADI**

“BodyMine”: A solo performance by Shabari Rao (dance maker, educator and researcher)
6:00 to 7:30 pm
at Aditi Amphitheatre
**Association of Designers of India. Opportunities for collaboration and engagement.

WEDNESDAY ~ November 22, 2017

TIME EVENT
Keynote: Kalpana Kar (Co-Founder of the Centre for Public Problem Solving)
9:30 to 10:30 am

10:30 to 11:00 am Coffee Break Media Shack

11:00 am to 12:00 pm Unconference continues
12:00 to 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm Departure for Walks & Workshops
1:30 to 3:30 pm Walks & Workshops (in multiple venues across the city)
3:30 pm Departure for Evening Venue (by Metro or Bus)
5:00 to 6:00 pm Art Walk at Bellandur (a new space for public art setup by RMZ Foundation**)
A Live Performance of Folk Music typical of the Meghval community of Rajasthan in
6:30 to 8:00 pm western India.
by Mahesha Ram and his troupe, annotated & translated by Shabnam Virmani & Vipul Rikhi
Future Talk: Ravi Gururaj*** – Serial Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist and Member of the
8:00 to 8:30 pm
NASSCOM Executive Council
8:30 to 9:30 pm Dinner
9:30 pm Departure for hotels in the city (by bus)
**www.rmzfoundation.org
***www.10000startups.com/ravi-gururaj-hbs-alumni-angels/

THURSDAY ~ November 23, 2017

TIME EVENT
Closing Keynote: Prof. Ezio Manzini (Honorary Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Founder
10:00 to 11:00 am of DESIS Network and Member of International Board of Advisors, Srishti Institute of Art,
Design and Technology.)
Presentations:
11:00 to 11:45 am Next Cumulus Conference
Student Ambassadors
11:45 am to 12:00 noon Closing comments by the President of Cumulus and Founder – Director Srishti
12:00 noon to 12:30 pm Closing Ceremony (by Srishti Student Community)
12:30 to 1:30 pm Lunch
2:00 pm Departure for hotels and for some excursions