Amresh Panigrahi coordinator for NID DESIS Lab India invited as a speaker in the "Crafting new social economies" conference part of DESIS international initiative. The conference lunch, a book on" crafting new social economy" presenting the case studies of design for social economy across the world. The Book has published two case study done by M.DES students of Lifestyle accessory design, NID Gandhinagar.
Amresh Panigrahi invited as DESIS International Coordination Committee (ICC). where it is composed since the beginning by ten people including the President and the International Coordinator) the other members are Anna Meroni, David Fassi, Virginia Tassinari, Adam Thorp, Miaosen Gong, Eduardo Staszowski, Lou YonQi, Teresa Franqueira (now it will be substitute by Carla Cipolla).International Coordination Committee (ICC) for Desis LAB
The ten-member team selected among the Labs’. Active participants of the Assembly and indicated by the IC. They collaborate with the IC in the organization and deployment of the following activities:
To evaluate the new Lab applications;
To evaluate the new Initiatives proposed;
To define the agenda for the Assembly meeting;
To implement the decisions taken by the Assembly To promote some special events;
To promote editorial activities;
To direct the editorial line for the website;
To deal with any legal issues;
To give continuity to the governance model.
The ICC remains in charge for the same period as the IC: 2 years, starting from the 1st of January of the year after the IC’s election.
2.DESIS network Desis Cafe meet: Mr Amresh Panigrahi, Associate senior designer, course lead, Lifestyle Accessory Design, NID Gandhinagar represented as a coordinator NID desis lab. He presented the social innovation experiments done with NID Mdes level students. NID desis lab also got a chance to present a case study of the social innovation project done by the LAD 2016,2017 batch on “Design for collaborative cities”, “design for equality” and invited other labs for future collaboration.
3. “DESIS Labs Forum 2021 - A Bright Future for Asia: Mr Amresh Panigrahi, (present coordinator), Along with Mr Shashank Mehta, Principal Faculty, Product design (founder), presented NID DESIS Lab Activity. He has presented a broad case study of the social innovation project and experiment done in the NID Master level students. Both Amresh and Shashank were part of the 2 Parallel panel discussion to discuss and debate the future Asian themes to explore by Asian Desis LAB. The other desis lab members participated in this are DSU DESIS Lab (Ju-young Chang),Yonsei DESIS Lab (Joon-Sang Baek), TZU DESIS Lab (Keisuke Oki), Tongji DESIS Lab (Minqing Ni), Tsinghua DESIS Lab (Zhong Fang), HKDI DESIS Lab (Chan Kwong Yiu Daniel), NID DESIS Lab (Amresh Panigrahi), INI Lab (Wallapa Van Willenswaard) (Wednesday, 9. June 2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6r8G70_gH4