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Jain, Devaki,
Devaki Jain (born 1933) is an Indian economist and writer, who has worked mainly in the field of feminist economics. In 2006 she was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award from Government of India, for her contribution to social justice and the empowerment of women.
Devaki Jain (born 1933) is an Indian economist and writer, who has worked mainly in the field of feminist economics. In 2006 she was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third-highest civilian award from Government of India, for her contribution to social justice and the empowerment of women.
Jain, Gunjan,
Gunjan Jain is a textile and craft designer and researcher based in New Delhi, India. In 2008, she founded Vriksh (vrikshdesigns.com), a social design studio in which she has been collaborating with handloom weavers in the state of Odisha, India, where her focus has been to revive the dying and lesser known weaves of Odisha like the Ganjam Bomkai weave and Dhalapathar weave. She is known for her innovative work in Ikat textiles, Jala (extra weft), and natural dyed textile techniques. She offers contemporary aesthetics in traditional indian textiles yet retaining the cultural significance with the primary focus to further empower the artisans and their livelihood.Apart from Odisha, Gunjan has worked as a freelance designer in Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Rajasthan on design development, skill training and capacity building, collaborating with master artisans on regional handcrafted textiles of block printing, hand embroidery and weaving. She has displayed her textile works in India, the United States, Singapore, London, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Australia.Gunjan has been honored with the UNESCO award for Significant Innovations in Traditional Crafts 2022 in Uzbekistand and named Vogue India Fashion Fund's 'Designer of the Year 2016' in the Sari category. Her team of Vriksh weavers has won a record-setting eight National Awards and Odisha State Handloom Awards. Vriksh weavers have also been honoured with the Shanta Prasad Award for Excellence by the Crafts Council of India and the Sutrakar Samman by the Delhi Crafts Council.
Jain, Rishav,
Rishav Jain works as an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Design and Senior Researcher at Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC) at CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India. He completed his Master’s in Interior Architecture and Design with specialization in Craft and Technology from Faculty of Design, CEPT University, Ahmedabad with a Gold Medal and a Best Research Award for his Post Graduate Research Thesis. He also has to his credit a Gold Medal and Academic Excellence Award for his Bachelor in Design (Interiors He has been a contributor to various national and international journals, magazines, blogs and forums through his research papers, articles and essays. His research areas largely focus on various approaches in interior architecture as related to space making crafts and the changing role of craftspeople and their position in the society. Rishav is currently working on his book on ‘Crafts in Interior Architecture: India, 1990 onwards’, which will be published this year.
Rishav Jain works as an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Design and Senior Researcher at Design Innovation and Craft Resource Centre (DICRC) at CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India. He completed his Master’s in Interior Architecture and Design with specialization in Craft and Technology from Faculty of Design, CEPT University, Ahmedabad with a Gold Medal and a Best Research Award for his Post Graduate Research Thesis. He also has to his credit a Gold Medal and Academic Excellence Award for his Bachelor in Design (Interiors He has been a contributor to various national and international journals, magazines, blogs and forums through his research papers, articles and essays. His research areas largely focus on various approaches in interior architecture as related to space making crafts and the changing role of craftspeople and their position in the society. Rishav is currently working on his book on ‘Crafts in Interior Architecture: India, 1990 onwards’, which will be published this year.
Jaitly, Jaya,
Jaya Jaitly has worked for over four decades with craftspeople. Her interests are wide ranging and she has been the Assistant General Secretary of the Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat, a major trade union. She joined active politics and the Janata Party in 1984. She has been the Secretary of the Janata Dal, General Secretary (1994) and President (2001) of the Samata Party. She moved away from party-bound politics in 2003. She is the founder and Chairperson of Dastkari Haat Samiti, an organization for crafts people and among her many activities she conceptualized the concept of Dilli Haat, a unique craft space in New Delhi. She regularly organizes workshops to upgrade craft skills and products; is a prolific writer and has several publications including five books on handicrafts to her credit.
Jaya Jaitly has worked for over four decades with craftspeople. Her interests are wide ranging and she has been the Assistant General Secretary of the Hind Mazdoor Kisan Panchayat, a major trade union. She joined active politics and the Janata Party in 1984. She has been the Secretary of the Janata Dal, General Secretary (1994) and President (2001) of the Samata Party. She moved away from party-bound politics in 2003. She is the founder and Chairperson of Dastkari Haat Samiti, an organization for crafts people and among her many activities she conceptualized the concept of Dilli Haat, a unique craft space in New Delhi. She regularly organizes workshops to upgrade craft skills and products; is a prolific writer and has several publications including five books on handicrafts to her credit.
Jinan, K.B,
Jinan has spent 40 years living with 'learning communities' of artisans and is relentless in his search for the process that enables knowledge creation. He believes that the modern educational paradigm is based on ‘how to teach’ and not on ‘how we naturally learn’. He has researched and systematically documented children’s spontaneous activities to decode how children simplify the complex world they experience in order to make sense of it. With over 4000 videos and images of various activities that children undertake, he convincingly presents proof. He also posits that creativity is an afterthought in the current teaching paradigm at schools, whereas it is the first principle in a learning paradigm (viz., when children engage in unstructured play) because learning means to uncover the unknown. Jinan has also been concerned with the homogenization and westernization of aesthetic sensibilities. He has dedicated 20 years to studying how aesthetic sensibilities are formed in traditional cultures and how modern education distorts these sensibilities. This led him to initiate a conference series to address the fragmented aesthetic sensibilities in modern man. His concern is that cultural diversity will soon be extinct if we don't explore various aspects of the formation of aesthetic sense in humans and the fundamental role of beauty in life.
Jinan has spent 40 years living with 'learning communities' of artisans and is relentless in his search for the process that enables knowledge creation. He believes that the modern educational paradigm is based on ‘how to teach’ and not on ‘how we naturally learn’. He has researched and systematically documented children’s spontaneous activities to decode how children simplify the complex world they experience in order to make sense of it. With over 4000 videos and images of various activities that children undertake, he convincingly presents proof. He also posits that creativity is an afterthought in the current teaching paradigm at schools, whereas it is the first principle in a learning paradigm (viz., when children engage in unstructured play) because learning means to uncover the unknown. Jinan has also been concerned with the homogenization and westernization of aesthetic sensibilities. He has dedicated 20 years to studying how aesthetic sensibilities are formed in traditional cultures and how modern education distorts these sensibilities. This led him to initiate a conference series to address the fragmented aesthetic sensibilities in modern man. His concern is that cultural diversity will soon be extinct if we don't explore various aspects of the formation of aesthetic sense in humans and the fundamental role of beauty in life.
Johar, Navtej,
Navtej Johar is a Bharatanatyam exponent and a choreographer, whose work freely traverses between the traditional and the avant-garde. Johar has performed at prestigious venues all over the world and has worked extensively with prominent international companies and choreographers. He has collaborated with composers, as well as installation artists and has also acted in films directed by Deepa Mehta and Sabiha Sumar. A recipient of the Times of India Fellowship, 1995, and the Charles Wallace Fellowship, 1999, Johar was the performance director of the Commonwealth Parade, for the Queen's Golden Jubilee Celebrations, at London, in June 2002. A long time student and practitioner of yoga, he has been a yoga teacher since 1985 and runs his own studio, Studio Abhyas, at New Delhi. Navtej's long time interest in urban design has led him, in the last few years, to work actively with students, schools and young adults to relook at our city and to be involved with its improvement.
Navtej Johar is a Bharatanatyam exponent and a choreographer, whose work freely traverses between the traditional and the avant-garde. Johar has performed at prestigious venues all over the world and has worked extensively with prominent international companies and choreographers. He has collaborated with composers, as well as installation artists and has also acted in films directed by Deepa Mehta and Sabiha Sumar. A recipient of the Times of India Fellowship, 1995, and the Charles Wallace Fellowship, 1999, Johar was the performance director of the Commonwealth Parade, for the Queen's Golden Jubilee Celebrations, at London, in June 2002. A long time student and practitioner of yoga, he has been a yoga teacher since 1985 and runs his own studio, Studio Abhyas, at New Delhi. Navtej's long time interest in urban design has led him, in the last few years, to work actively with students, schools and young adults to relook at our city and to be involved with its improvement.
Johnson, Patty,
Patty Johnson is Canadian designer who is interested in the interchange between research and design, and, commerce and culture. Shecollaborates with partners, enterprises, manufacturers, communities, governments, and designers creating new kinds of design programs and product collections. Although based in Toronto, she thinks of her studio as a mobile network looking to combine the strengths of complimentary groups to build new linkages, new cultures and new ideas. She creates new platforms forgovernment funded, multi-year design programs in places likeHaiti, Africa, South America and the Caribbean as well as new products for manufacturers. Her work has been exhibited extensively and received many awards. Recent honours include three ICFF Editors Awards, Wallpaper’s Best of 2010, and, Fast Company’s Design Issue, 2011. With the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, Designworks Centre, she received a Skoll Foundation seed grant to investigate new economic and design modelsforalternative means of organizing creation and production. She is on the advisory board of the IDS in Canada. Patty Johnson was educated at the University of Toronto, Toronto, and, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.
Patty Johnson is Canadian designer who is interested in the interchange between research and design, and, commerce and culture. Shecollaborates with partners, enterprises, manufacturers, communities, governments, and designers creating new kinds of design programs and product collections. Although based in Toronto, she thinks of her studio as a mobile network looking to combine the strengths of complimentary groups to build new linkages, new cultures and new ideas. She creates new platforms forgovernment funded, multi-year design programs in places likeHaiti, Africa, South America and the Caribbean as well as new products for manufacturers. Her work has been exhibited extensively and received many awards. Recent honours include three ICFF Editors Awards, Wallpaper’s Best of 2010, and, Fast Company’s Design Issue, 2011. With the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, Designworks Centre, she received a Skoll Foundation seed grant to investigate new economic and design modelsforalternative means of organizing creation and production. She is on the advisory board of the IDS in Canada. Patty Johnson was educated at the University of Toronto, Toronto, and, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London.
Jongeward, Carolyn,
Carolyn Jongeward is an independent researcher and consultant on artisan issues and trade support.
Carolyn Jongeward is an independent researcher and consultant on artisan issues and trade support.