USID Gurukul 2010 at IIT Kanpur

This is a very intersting prgramme that I will be part of from the 21st August. A grief outline of the project and ofcourse my team consists of some brilliant students from Design and engineering stream.
Will keep you posted.

USID Gurukul 2010
USID Gurukul 2010 is being organized in partnership with IIT Kanpur and is inspired from “Gurukul” a school concept coming from ancient India which is residential in nature, with shishyas (students) living in proximity to the guru (teachers), often within the same house. USID Gurukul 2010
USID Gurukul 2010 will bring together 45 to 50 students selected from the disciplines of Design, Technology, Management and Social Sciences. The selected students will attend the gurukul free of charge and will be divided into number of team. Each team consisting of 5 to 6 students representing mix of different discipline teams will be assigned one mentor, who will work with them for a period of 2 weeks. It will provide a platform for students from the varied fields of design, technology, management and social science to go through a 2 weeks experience of collaborative and immersive learning. It will also provide opportunity to collaborate, explore, learn, experience and create solutions for some identified existing problems in the community/system under the mentorship of accomplished prectioners, researchers, academician and professionals, which would then facilitate social upliftment and better quality of life. It will Involve academia, industry, government personnel, media, performing arts, social work, non-design professionals etc. to provide a adequate ambience for the students to understand the importance of social context in design.
USID Gurukul 2010 first week (from August 21st to 27th, 2020) will be conducted in a virtual campus format and after that all the teams and the mentors will arrive at IIT Kanpur Campus on August 28th, 2010 and will spend the whole week (till 4th September. 2010 at IIT Kanpur Campus. This will include the project work under the assigned mentors as well as some field trips and external sessions including yoga, workshops, presentation, demo’s performance, movies, talent show and other team building exercises.
The overall experience and outcome of the gurukul will then be show cased at USID 2010 conference from 18th to 20th Nov, HICC, Hyderabad through presentations and reflections by few participants (both students and mentors).
We intend on focusing our problem statements on Education, Health & Care, Transport & Traffic, Inclusive Design, Agriculture & Food shortage, Public policies and its impact on citizens, and governments etc.