BITS Design School hosted the second edition of Care, Value, Place (CVP). The annual conference was held at the newly opened campus in Kalyan and gathered designers, educators, researchers, and community leaders to talk about how design can care for people, places, and the planet.
The event revolved around three big questions: how design can shape health and care, how it can create shared value between communities and businesses, and how it can help us know and learn from the places we live in. Abhinav Goel, Commissioner of the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation, also participated, sharing how design-led thinking can strengthen local governance and improve everyday life in cities.
Curator John Thackara opened the conference with a call to look at design not as a field of production but as a way of strengthening relationships between people, places, and ecosystems. He said, “Design must be understood as a living system. No single designer can grasp everything, but design serves the individual while strengthening the larger ecosystem.”
In her closing remarks, Nandita Abraham, Dean of BITS Design School, said, “Ideas alone are not enough. Design becomes meaningful when people work together to make those ideas real. At BITS Design, we’re working with local partners on long-term projects that connect biodiversity, education, and gender equity with design practice. CVP helps us learn from global thinkers while acting locally.” |
