tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-390353998993233885.post2154904578420112689..comments2024-03-28T11:44:55.518+05:30Comments on Design for India: TATA’s One Lakh Car: Systems Failure on Indian Roads?Prof. M P Ranjanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14087205148848576540noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-390353998993233885.post-36092136337296263982008-01-11T14:45:00.000+05:302008-01-11T14:45:00.000+05:30Thanks SooI am advocating the use of design and sc...Thanks Soo<BR/><BR/>I am advocating the use of design and scenario visualisation as a social procedure that can make the consequences of any major infrastructure investment visible to the lay man before it is acted upon by governments and industry even if they have the money and the power to do so. This will encourage true democratic processes and it may take a while to move things but once we get an understanding the movement forward would be quite dramatic and the consequences at the social and the ecological level both visible as well as manageable. We could go one step further and say that we could have laws in place that makes such visualisations and community sharing mandatory and time sensitive so that situations such as the Shingur and Nandigram conflicts as well as the Narmada issue that has been contentious.<BR/><BR/>In all these cases we have only had political activists opposing or supporting the scheme, whatever they may have been iontended to achieve. However with design visualisation and scenario building with imagination so that all of us can see and feel the finer aspects of what could be the possible outcomes and then move forward with conviction.Prof. M P Ranjanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14087205148848576540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-390353998993233885.post-65658167137980697562008-01-11T13:45:00.000+05:302008-01-11T13:45:00.000+05:30hi ranjan, i was reading an interview of Nandan Ni...hi ranjan, i was reading an interview of Nandan Nilekani where he and his wife were in the process of setting up thinktanks in India (quite like what you suggest in the last para of this post). I don't know whether it would be a part of Infosys or a separate body, but maybe there could be some collaboration with that. just a thought!Soosixtyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10787496713464025914noreply@blogger.com