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		Name: Adam Royalty Designation: Design Lecturer comapny: K-12 Lab, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford What I do Now: I design tools to help children develop confidence in their creativity. What I would have loved to redesign when I was 10: As a 10 year old I wanted to figure out a way so that people's names were based on all the nice things they did.

		Name : Arathi Abraham Arathi is a visual communication designer and an alumna of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad. She has spent a little over a decade heading a design firm Ninety nine and One Design and has worked on a number of corporate branding projects. For the last eight years she has worked on “Slate” a software authoring tool, designed for teachers to create communication aids and educational multimedia. This software facilitates the creation of digital content for pre-primary and primary school children and other early learners. Slate was awarded the National Trust Award for the Best Innovative Design in 2007. Arathi lives with her husband and their 2 children in Chennai.

		Name: Anna Muoio Designation: Principal, Social Innovation Anna joined Continuum with a focus on creating new capabilities and offerings for the company. She is spearheading Continuum’s Social Innovation initiative which focuses on how design and innovation can provide transformational and sustainable value to people in communities of need throughout the world. Prior to Continuum, Anna built a consultancy creating Learning Journeys for companies—custom-designed, multi-day experiences that immersed teams of executives in other business cultures and with remarkable individuals to throw business-specific challenges in new light. Clients included Royal Dutch/Shell, Citigroup and Federal Express. Before Learning Journeys, Anna was a Senior Writer at Fast Company magazine. As the 14th member of the team, Anna helped to shape the magazine’s thematic agenda around the most effective ways to compete, the smartest ways to work, the right way to lead—a set of ideas that have won a passionate following around the world.


		Name: ARVIND Venkatadri Designation: Head, Library Programme comapny: Akshara Foundation, Bangalore What I do Now: Set up and run 400 Libraries to serve all 1400 Govt Primary Schools in Bangalore What I would have loved to redesign when I was 10: The Orion constellation; align the stars properly to make it look more like a butterfly.

		Name: Ashish Deshpande Designation: Director/ Industrial Designer Company: Elephant Strategy + Design, Pune INDIA What I do Now: I am working on different solutions for the urban home waste problem What I would have loved to redesign when I was 10: At the age of 10, I remember designing a badminton net using kite thread and old bamboo for my friends group as we could not afford one, yet as a child I always dreamt of designing a space ship, a modern day equivalent of Noah's Arc.

		Name: Avik Sarkar Designation: Motivator Company: Ethos New Delhi and Bardez, Goa What I do Now: Putting together my "IndiaAgenda". Reinventing myself and creating an open source collaborative design practice that will work on 10 different issues of concern over the next 10 years. What I would have loved to redesign when I was 10: Always dreamt of designing/making/putting together a contraption that would use a cycle at one end as a prime mover and connect to a host of devices at the other to do lots of things like pump water, cut grass, paint etc.

		Name: Bala Mahajan Designation: Director, Principal Designer Company: Ticket Design, Pune, India What I do Now: I I help create meaningful products, packaging and communication solutions. What I would have loved to redesign when I was 10: A mini-truck for children, I always wanted to drive one and yes also a better playground.

		Name: George Mathew Designation: Director Company: Icarus Design Pvt.Ltd., Bangalore What I do Now: Driving design discovery within organisations What I would have loved to redesign when I was 10: When I was 10 I wanted to be a policeman.

		Name: Jeremy Zietz Designation: Industrial Designer Jeremy has a unique ability to visualize substantive solutions to complex design challenges. He takes special interest in tackling problems which render cultural significance and in finding unique markets deprived of design thinking. In continuing to understand the roles of product systems in society, Jeremy looks to how design thinking can be used to shape a product's role and its impact. Prior to joining Continuum, Jeremy worked at Propane Design Group in Atlanta delivering innovative product and brand solutions. Joining Continuum's industrial design team in early 2008, Jeremy continues to forward Continuum’s initiatives around sustainable and social design thinking.

		Name: Janak Mistry Designation: Design Director Company: Idiom design and consulting Ltd What I do Now: Most satisfying recent thing designed and executed: my My house! Would like to redesign: My house Or for that matter most things I have designed. largely because I feel that is the nature of design. When you define you also confine. There is always going to be a better way of doing things. Our design sensibilities are constantly upgraded with exposure to better things (or worse things for that matter). Eg. The Maruti 800 when it was launched in 1983 was the coolest car going. Since then our experiences, exposure, and environment have made it an obsolete design. Yes, one can live with and get attached and inspired by objects in a timeless way but then there lies the difference between MOMA and TATE. What I would have loved to redesign when I was 10: Underwear for sure… At 12 when you do a lot of running around and you don’t want your under ware ‘nada’ to open up or elastic loosing its elasticity (due to repeated wash beating) and the underwear slipping down ones shorts! .. .. heavy school bags ( hand held boxes in those days) , uncomfortable desks, limited range of spectacle frame designs that made one look more handicapped then cool, Fountain pens that did not leak. And many more.

		Name: Jim Ratcliffe Jim Ratcliffe is a lecturer at Stanford University’s Design Institute, aka the d.school. He has more than ten years experience as a publishing professional and has worked with schools throughout the United States, Nepal, and India to improve educational opportunities in underserved communities. With many years of experience in the international nonprofit sector, Jim worked for industry leaders such as Ashoka: Innovators for the Public and has consulted for USAID and Kiva Microfunds.


		Name : Molly McMahon Designation : Program Officer Institute : Gray Matters Capital Based in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, Molly is leading the ecosystem development of the affordable private school market. Her principal focus is driving student achievement through a school rating system that sets teaching and learning benchmarks, and informs parents on the quality of education. Partnering with school leaders, education service providers, investors, and international donors, the goal is to increase market transparency and establish an industry standard that attracts resources and identifies strategic and sustainable interventions. Prior to joining Gray Matters Capital, Molly was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras. She returned to Central America as Country Director for the Riecken Foundation, and built their Honduran office as well as developed and scaled their library program. Molly has her Master of Public Administration from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), she was selected for the education reform fellowship Education Pioneers, and received her undergraduate degree in International Affairs from the University of Oregon.

		Name : Olga Trusova Designation : Designer at the K-12 Lab Institute : Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) Stanford University Olga has both extensive professional experience and academic expertise in the fields of education and technology and serves as a design associate at Stanford's d.school. In addition to her B.S. in Computer Science, Olga posses an M.A. in Education with an emphasis on Learning, Design & Technology from Stanford University. Olga strongly believes that listening, innovative thinking, and an appreciation for humankind combined with strong passions for education and social endeavors can become powerful agents of change in the world and make a difference in the lives of actual people! What I wanted to redesign when I was 10: "Moving experience" since my parents moved around at that time.

		Name : Pranay Desai Designation : Director Institute : iinfi design solutions What I do Now: I just design stuff - print, web, exhibition, space... What I would have loved to redesign when I was 10: I would have loved to redesign my school, it was a very boring space.

		Name : Praveen Nahar Designation : Associate Senior Faculty Institute : National Institute of Design Ahmedabad What I do Now: I am working with design in public domain and sustainability What I would have loved to redesign when I was 10: As I remember I wanted to design my 'school bus' and 'shoes with spring attached'.

		Name: Poonam Bir Kasturi Designation: Designer Educator company: Daily Dump, 2992, 12A Main, HAL 2nd Stage, Bangalore What I do Now: I am working on different solutions for the urban home waste problem What I would have loved to redesign when I was 10: I wanted to redesign teachers when I was 10



		Name: Rashmi Sethi Korjan Designation: Industrial Designer / practitioner, researcher, teacher Company: Studio Korjan What I do Now: Teach courses in design concepts, systems thinking and design research What I would have loved to redesign when I was 10: I believe it was a playhouse which adults could not enter

		Name: S. Sundar Designation: Managing Director Company: Dovetail Furniture Private Limited, Bangalore What I do Now: Building a company that successfully combines creativity and production capability to realise ideas on a large scale. What I would have loved to redesign when I was 10: The world was perfect and I honestly can't recall anything I wished to redesign, except my schoolbag, maybe.


		Name: Sandy Speicher Sandy Speicher works at a design company called IDEO. IDEO has offices around the world, working on big challenges in business, government, and society such as designing new solutions for energy or helping to bring clean water to rural India. Sandy leads IDEO's education work, and believes that children across the world should be always imagining what they can do to improve on the problems of business, government, and society. When she was 10, she helped to redesign her classroom... Working with the teacher to rethinking the schedule, space, and activities of the school day.


		Name: Sumita Sarkar Designation: Head of Department Company: Pearl Academy of Fashion What I do Now: Help students achieve their potential, get closer to their dreamswhile doing it make the world a better place. What I would have loved to redesign when I was 10: When I was 10, I wanted to make learning science exciting and fun in schools.

		Name : Sunil Sudhakaran Designation : Founder Director Company : Icarus Design Pvt Ltd., Bangalore, India. What do i do now? Direct Product design projects at Icarus. Exploring new avenues for growth. Something i wanted to redesign when i was 10? 'design' was not in my vocabulary then. i remember opening up a small transistor radio, designed by Pierre Cardin,gifted to me by my father. Probably thats when i read the word 'Design' for the first time. It was my most precious possession. it stopped functioning after a couple of explorations into its electronics, it used to occasionally work when some of the electrical contacts decided to work under physical pressure. eventually it gave up. i was really upset. i wanted to design a radio.


		Name: Vinita Designation: Eco-Evangelist. Company: Consultant and Writer What I do Now: Discover new ways of enabling everyone to make informed choices. What I would have loved to redesign when I was 10: I cant remember but if I were to think now - I would say the way schools look at colouring for children - that whole emphasis on colouring within the lines