Audiogyan is a collection of wide-ranging conversations with designers, artists, musicians, writers, thinkers, and luminaries of the Indian creative world. Started in 2016 by Kedar Nimkar, the podcast hopes to expand the definition of design, document, archive, and inspire fellow generation artists.
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Ep. 291 - Designing beyond Earth with Susmita Mohanty
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This is the 3rd episode of a 10 Part series, "Designer’s Digest” with Dr. Susmita Mohanty, an Indian spaceship designer and a serial space entrepreneur. This series is created in partnership with Godrej Design Lab - a platform that encourages and advances design excellence and exploration. Godrej Design Lab believes in the power of design to make a…
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Ep. 290 - Design leadership in startups with Hardik Pandya
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This is the second episode of a 10 Part series, "Designer’s Digest” with Hardik Pandya, Sr. VP of Design at Unacademy Group. This series is about Design as a profession, it’s daily grind, the secrets to climbing the design career ladder and what edge we’ll need to thrive in the captivating world of design. I have a co-host with me, Shreyas Satish. …
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Ep. 289 - Measure of good designers with Ayaz Basrai
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This is the first episode of a 10 Part series, "Designer’s Digest”. This series is about Design as a profession, it’s daily grind, the secrets to climbing the design career ladder and what edge we’ll need to thrive in the captivating world of design. We start with Ayaz Basrai. Ayaz has been on Audiogyan’s 104th Episode where we spoke about “Designi…
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Ep. 288 - What is Plork? with Nitesh and Sonal (7th Anniversary)
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Einstein once said “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” He also said, “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.” Why I am talking about this? In today’s episode, we’ll documenting all about Play and Work. For this, we ha…
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Ep. 287 - Discussing typeface with Sarang Kulkarni (Marathi)
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“The characteristics of jazz help. Its sense of improvisation, individualism, sound, and rhythm are all present and important in graphic design, too.” - Niklaus Troxler, who have been improvising with letterforms like Jazz Musicians since 1960s. In my opinion, a Poster is a mix of typeface and graphics communicating something. In here, typeface mat…
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Ep. 286 - Design for scale with Abhinit Tiwari
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Abhinit has been building digital products for past 15 years, he was head of Design at Gojek and scaled the design and research function from 6 designer to 200 plus including research. He is currently on a sabbatical. Questions You wear multiple hats - designer, programmer and Product. Your twitter bio says, App Maker. Pixel Hinter. Leak Checker. W…
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Ep. 285 - Censorship in films with Ajit Rai (Hindi)
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Potter Stewart an associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court once said, “Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.” Censoring artists, intellectuals is not a new thing. Today to discuss more about censorship we have Ajit Rai with us on Audiogyan. We’ll be talking about banning and censorship in films in the Indian context. This…
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Ep. 284 - Where is the place? with Ar. Sherman Stave
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In late 1800s, A Spanish architect, Antonio Gaudi, said, “There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners”. But where does the nature stop and where does the building begin? Lets explore more about architecture and history in this 3 part series called, “An insert into the his…
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Ep. 283 - An insert into the history with Prof. Durganand Balsavar (TDB Series)
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Frank Owen Gehry, a Canadian-born American architect and designer once said, “Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness”. How can we long for timelessness in architecture if the place itself keeps changing? Lets explore more about architecture and history in this 3 part series called, “An insert into the history”. …
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Ep. 282 - Designing a museum with Ar. Prashant Pole (TDB Series)
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BV. Doshi, once said, “A house is a grain, like a small sapling in the bio-diverse wild forest”. I wonder what a public space like a temple, a monument, museum, a park, an industrial zone, a 80 floor office tower or a man made landscape is? Lets explore more about architecture and history in this 3 part series called, “An insert into the history”. …
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Ep. 281 - Improvisation in dance with Avantika Bahl
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Friedrich Nietzsche’s famous line - “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” In today’s episode, we’ll be talking about improvisation in dance with Avantika Bahl. Avantika is a dance practitioner and educator based in Mumbai. As an artist, she works towards creating inclusive performances th…
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Ep. 280 - Improvisation in Performing Arts with Trina Banerjee
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Satyajit Ray once said, “There is always room for improvisation”. I think this needs a lot more investigation. Referring to Ray’s comment on the room of improvisation, today we have the honour to have Dr Trina Banerjee with us on Audiogyan. We’ll talk about improvisation in the context of Theatre, Plays, Playwriting, and performing arts at large. T…
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Ep. 279 - Improvisations in music with Pushkar Lele & Kuldeep Barve
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I quote John McLaughlin “I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.” Pushkar Lele and Kuldeep Barve joins us on Audiogyan and we will be talking abou…
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Ep. 278 - Rethinking waste as a resource with Rahul Nainani
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“Waste not, want not.” can be explained as “if you are not wasteful with the resources you have now, then at a later date you will have those resources to use as you want and need. By not wasting, you will not be needy later.” And today to discuss all about waste ecosystem and the sector at large, we have Rahul Nainani with us on Audiogyan. Rahul h…
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Ep. 277 - Need for performing spaces with Atul Kumar
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Peter Brook the legendary English theatre and film director once said, ********“I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.” Lets talk about the need for such a space with Atul Kumar. Atul Kumar is Th…
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Ep. 276 - “The Promise” documentary making with Jan Schmidt Garre (Part 2)
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Welcome back to Part 2. We were in conversation with Jan Schmidt Garre, film maker, producer and founder of PARS MEDIA. They make high-quality documentaries and feature films with a focus on classical music, dance, and the fine arts. In the previous episode, we spoke about “Making a documentary” and in this, we speak about his latest Documentary on…
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Ep. 275 - Documentary making with Jan Schmidt Garre (Part 1)
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“In feature films, the director is God; in documentary films, God is the director.” Alfred Hitchcock. Welcome to this 2 part series with Jan Schmidt Garre. First part is about “Making a documentary” and second part is his latest Documentary on Late Ar. B.V.Doshi called the “The Promise – Architect BV Doshi”. Jan Schmidt-Garre founded PARS MEDIA in …
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Ep. 274 - Designing Trucks with Sathiya Seelan Gangaasalam
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Maa kaa aashirwaad, OK TATA Bye Bye, Hum Do Hamare Do, Mera Bharat Mahan - Sounds familiar? I am talking about the slogans written behind the truck. But we are not going to discuss those, rather the heavy vehicles on which these are written. Yes. Trucks. In 1911, truck designer Charles Martin built a gasoline-powered tractor to pull modified horse-…
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Ep. 273 - Snake-a-doo with Peeyush & Khyati
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16th July is World snake day - 4 days from today when this episode is released and on this occasion, we are doing a case study of Snake-a-doo, a board game about Snakes and Snake-bites. More than a million people have died due to snakebites in India in the past 20 years. “Snake-a-doo” is an original take on the conventional snakes and ladders game,…
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Ep. 272 - Generative Art with Ujjwal Agarwal
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As Scott Adams, an American author and cartoonist says, “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” In our today’s episode, we’ll try and understand who is making mistakes and who keeps the art. I am personally super interested in knowing how things unfold in this episode with Ujjwal Agarwal also known as …
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Welcome to Audiogyan and I'm your host Kedar Nimkar. Audiogyan brings you conversations with the most influential figures in the Indian creative world - Artists, filmmakers, musicians, architects, writers, curators and designers. I had the honor of hosting remarkable guests like the late Ar. B.V Doshi, Sujata Keshavan, Varun Grover, Taufiwu Queresh…
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Ep. 271 - Whats looping? with Vasuda Sharma
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David M. Torn, an American guitarist, composer, and producer once said, “The original source of any loop is whatever your sound is, at the moment of input.” Well to unpack this and know more about looping, we have Vasuda Sharma with us on Audiogyan. Vasuda is a Singer, Songwriter, Producer, and Performer. In fact, being a performer, I have seen her…
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Ep. 270 - Designing spaces with Kamini Rao
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Kamini Rao has built giant cakes, designed cozy mountain homes and boozy retro diners, created fake airplanes, and architected a house for a doll. Although her work is deeply rooted in architecture and interior design, we will be talking about space, exhibition, and set design. She is a multidisciplinary designer with a focus on collective experien…
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Ep. 269 - What are aesthetics? with Saugata Bhaduri
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I am not sure where do I start today’s episode since it’s about aesthetics. This concept can be seen in mathematics, arts, poetry, literature, music, sculpture, photography, cooking. In fact anything that you see, smell, taste, touch or hear. So lets leave it to our today’s guest, Saugata Bhaduri. He is an Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University (…
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Ep. 268 - Design of Peace with Rajni Bakshi
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Rajni Bakshi joins us on Audiogyan. She is an Indian author, researcher, and activist. Her work primarily focuses on issues related to non-violence, economics, ecology, and peace. Rajni is the founder and curator of Ahimsa Conversations, an online platform for exploring the possibilities of nonviolence. More about her in the show notes. I have been…
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