• I am sure you must have answered this a thousand times, but just to set the context for Audiogyan listeners, how was DesignYatra conceived, and what made you conceive it? How did the name “DesignYatra” come about?
  • What according to you is the importance of these design events and gatherings apart from empowering creatives to showcase their work and making attendees feel inspired?
  • How do you decide on each year’s theme? From “Design Empowers Businesses.” in 2007 to “On the contrary” in 2019. and what the theme for this year?
  • What is the overall process of curating the speakers? What are a few metrics on which a particular speaker is selected?
  • I attended my first DesignYatra last year and it was really wonderful. Full of inspiration to do great work. However, 70% of the speakers were non-Indian which made the work less relatable and more utopian for Indian developing countries. What is going on when you wish to showcase this kind of work?
  • Design is such a broad discipline. From Interior to textile to illustrations to industrial products. What sort of brief is given to speakers to make their work relatable to such a wide-ranging audience?
  • Can you share a few big challenges to organize this sort of an event when the design has not reached that tangible projected outcomes which is possible it may be a few other domains?
  • You also don’t have concurrent talks going around. Which is very unlike regular conferences. Does this seem to be a conscious call? Can you share your thought behind it?
  • I was personally in awe when you spoke about how DesignYatra is handling the carbon footprint of such a massive 2 day-long event. Can you tell us it in detail? What is the process and how do you reconcile it?
  • Have you got any plans of making Designyatra more accessible to the design community? A wonderful talk last year by Ayaaz has less than 1K views, which is sad according to me.
  • Lastly, I would like to conclude by asking what’s the story with changing venues and then finally in Goa? 🙂 What are your future plans with DesignYatra and whom can we expect this year?

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