Talks by Amit Krishn Gulati, Incubis & Monika Khanna Gulati, SkyBLUE Design

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Talks by Amit Krishn Gulati, Incubis & Monika Khanna Gulati, SkyBLUE Design

Talk I
DESIGN THINKING FOR HEALTHCARE

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Amit Krishn Gulati

Discussing the components of an innovation toolkit derived from the principles of design thinking Illustrating new experiments in the healthcare sector that deploy this method.

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About Amit Krishn Gulati

Amit Krishn Gulati is an industrial designer, entrepreneur and design educator with a multifaceted oeuvre encompassing new product development, healthcare, hotels, branding, retail experiences and spaces. Amit graduated from the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad in 1995 and is the founder of Incubis, an architecture and design studio.

Working closely with start-ups is a passion for Amit. He is one of the founding investors at Barista, India’s pioneering espresso retailer and at Eye-Q - a successful and fast-growing chain of eye hospitals targeted towards low-income patients in small towns. Amit teaches at The School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi and at his alma-mater, NID.

Talk II
CHALLENGES OF COMMUNITY WASTE MANAGEMENT

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Monika Khanna Gulati

Sharing experiences getting communities to recognize the looming environmental crisis and motivating them to take action at the personal and neighbourhood level.

About Monika Khanna Gulati

Monika Khanna Gulati is a communication designer and educator with over eighteen years of diverse experience as a design management consultant, advertising executive and founder of SkyBLUE Design. She is a visiting faculty of Visual Communication at the Sushant School of Design, Ansal University, Gurgaon, India.

For the past few years, Monika has been spending a lot more of her time on community waste management issues with neighbourhoods and organizations in Gurgaon, spreading awareness and taking action-on issues of resource optimization, segregation at source, recycling and organic composting. NCR Waste Matters - a highly-motivated and energetic community of volunteers is the outcome of this drive.

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