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Bringing out of the box ideas, innovative concepts and success stories - Archana Prasad, Vaibhav Chabbra and Ayush Chauhan - three young entrepreneurs came together for an interesting session in the Speakers' Forum at the India Art Fair in New Delhi on Friday and shared their tales.
Bengaluru's Jaaga founder Prasad showcased how her organisation offers programs and space for creative people, initiatives, and enterprises to work in an unconventional manner.
Speaking on the Jaaga DNA (Designs, networks and arts) programme, which is "very close" to her heart, Prasad said that "they use creative ways to solve urban issues" and showcased images of public art that they have used to beautify the metro pillars of Bengaluru. She also informed the audiences that her organisation has adopted a few highways of the city and plans to do something interesting with them.
Besides DNA, Jaaga also offers a startup programme to assist creative entrepreneurs to establish their companies.
Prasad, a post-graduate diploma holder from NID, Ahmedabad founded Jaaga in 2009.
Another panelist, Chabbra, a Boston University graduate shared how he landed himself in the Mumbai slums and started Maker's Asylum in 2013 while working for US-based EyeNetra.
Unfolding the funny tale, the mechanical engineer revealed that it was actually when "the ceiling of his Mumbai office broke" and "the landlord agreed to fix the ceiling" but "not repair the chairs" that he came across a bunch of creative people who made chairs and then kept coming over repeatedly to create more innovative stuff which finally led him to start Maker's Asylum - a place that allows collaborative ideation involving hardware and art.
Delhi-based Chauhan, co-founder of Quicksand and Unbox, presented a video of Unbox Festival 2014 that was held at IGNCA in New Delhi to highlight how the three-day event made conversations happen and ideas develop when people from myriad domains came together in the first interdisciplinary festival of the city.
"We have changed the format, broken into smaller projects to make it interesting and to reach out to more communities," Chauhan said.
Chauhan also spoke about his work on the social outreach project that is dedicated to re-designing and improving sanitation facilities in the slums of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack.
The three entrepreneurs advocated that alternate methods of learning is the way ahead and more such initiatives will help ideas grow and interesting innovative concepts take shape.
The session was moderated by Godrej India Culture Lab head Parmesh Sahani.
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