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Jan 24

The future will emerge from outside of the metaverse.

The past six weeks have felt to me like a liberation from the clutches of the media. I was on a pilgrimage to my roots in India. I decided not to buy a newspaper, watch Tv or access news online during my stay. Instead I decided to travel and meet…

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The future will emerge from outside of the metaverse.
The future will emerge from outside of the metaverse.

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Published in SonicRim: Stories from the Edge

·Dec 19, 2022

The Changing Skyline of Mumbai

The Changing Skyline of Mumbai The neighborhood I grew up in is one of the middle class hubs of Mumbai. A very large number of the political activists, social reformers, artists, trade unionists, authors, poets have emerged from the humble living conditions of Mumbai. Yesterday I had the opportunity to…

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The Changing Skyline of Mumbai
The Changing Skyline of Mumbai

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Nov 24, 2022

A framework for designing a post pandemic future

During the pandemic I have had several online conversations with hundreds of students from around the world. One message ran through all of my interactions with them. “You are entering the job market with a unique opportunity. The pandemic has forced everyone to reconsider our priorities, heal and regenerate the…

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A framework for designing a post pandemic future
A framework for designing a post pandemic future

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Nov 12, 2022

The role of poetry in building a regenerative future

As a poet I feel concerned about growing spread of hatred in the society. I have a hypothesis based on my observations of human nature and my own musings as a poet: Hatred benumbs and impairs our natural capacity for healing and regeneration. It is easier to heal from grief…

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The role of poetry in building a regenerative future
The role of poetry in building a regenerative future

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Published in SonicRim: Stories from the Edge

·Oct 10, 2022

The Third Act

Background “Everyone has a book in them and that is where it should remain.” Christopher Eric Hitchens a British-American author and journalist. My reaction (below) to this popular quote sets the premise for this blog: The life we live is our evolving story; Becoming aware of our evolving story can…

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The Third Act
The Third Act

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Published in SonicRim: Stories from the Edge

·Sep 25, 2022

Start redefining your relationship with food to redefine your life

Since my first day as a student of design my design curiosities and sensitivities have evolved into discovering, cultivating and harnessing relationships between people and the things we design. I have discovered that through the process of design people are able to define and refine their relationship with their environment…

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Start redefining your relationship with food to redefine your life
Start redefining your relationship with food to redefine your life

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Sep 20, 2022

Why I don’t think about design thinking

Earlier this year, on the first day of my class at the Integrated Innovation Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University, a graduate student (who has several years of experience as a software product manager) asked me “What do you think about Design Thinking?” I do not remember the answer I…

Design Thinking

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Why I don’t think about design thinking
Why I don’t think about design thinking
Design Thinking

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Published in SonicRim: Stories from the Edge

·Sep 15, 2022

The Productivity Trap

22 years ago I was working on an emerging markets study for Microsoft to understand the life of people in China, Thailand and India. The overall objective was to help our client team understand how Microsoft could develop software (and possibly hardware) tools to serve the unique needs of people…

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The Productivity Trap
The Productivity Trap

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Jul 10, 2022

Tapping into the abundance of our connectedness

I have been a nomad all my life. For the past almost thirty years I have been an ethnographer of imagination. My curiosity for human perception of the material world brought me to the United States to study Product Semantics. As I shifted my attention from the material things I…

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Tapping into the abundance of our connectedness
Tapping into the abundance of our connectedness

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Jul 5, 2022

what does it mean to be human?

five thousand friends on facebook felt more like my audience than friends when i cut them down to two hundred i stopped responding to hateful comments and felt calm and balanced i don’t even need facebook anymore to feel connected because my real friends care for each other

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what does it mean to be human?
what does it mean to be human?

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Uday Dandavate

Uday Dandavate

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A design activist and ethnographer of social imagination.

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