Collaborative Environments:

'Collaborative Solar Project'
- on creating an experience driven collaborative environment using the net for children across different countries
website: www.colorsofindia.com

'Interactive Social Environments'
- interaction design process and developing applications for specific user groups - undeserved, physically disadvantaged and the informal sector.
Related website: www.idc.iitb.ac.in/msr


Designing for Children:

'Learning with fun'
- combines storybuilding, gaming and characterization with interactivity and play to create an environment of learning that is full of fun and experience.
website: www.wavehome.net

'Digital Folk Tales'
This research project is intended to preserve traditional forms of folk tales in digital form - efforts are aimed at resourcing and visualizing the content in different medias and making it freely accessible to all.
website: www.idc.iitb.ac.in/research/research-focus-groups.html

Online Digital Resources:

'Design-Cuture-Technology Traid'
- documentation, analysis andapplication projects exploring triadic relationship between Design, Culture and Technology in the context of India.

'Design-in-India Resource'
- building a web space for creating, preserving, documenting resources for design in the context of India (started January 2005).
website: www.designinindia.net

'Designing for Children'
- creating a resource facility on issues related to designing for children

Way-Finding Systems:

'Signage Systems'
- as applied to iconic wayfinding representations for public facilities, Internet navigation, Interface Design, etc.
Related website: www.designofsignage.com

'Smart Navigator'
- for way-finding applications in City Streets, Public Places, Museums, Super markets, etc.

'Visible Information Studies'
- Studies related to organising and structuring information in various media to facilitate construction and visualisation of information.

'Design Experience 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008'
- a seminar on contemporary design applications in India, being organised by IDC, IIT Bombay at Nehru Centreand IDC
website: www.idc.iitb.ac.in/events

'Icograda Design Week in India - 2007
Design Local - stops at all stations'
- a week long celebration of communication design, organised by IDC, IIT Bombay at Nehru Centreand IDC
website: www.designlocal.net

'Design Innovation Week 2009'
- a week of pan India seminars on Design and Innovation organised by InDeAs and IDC, IIT Bombay
website: www.idc.iitb.ac.in/events

'Workshops on Expo-PD, Expo-CD and Product Interaction Design, Signage Design'
- 3/4 day professional workshops on the above subjects - more details at:
website: www.idc.iitb.ac.in/events