Come March, Kerala will have a Centre of Excellence for Design in Kalamassery, Kochi. The vision of the Kerala government for this space coming up in the integrated startup complex is ambitious. Here, it wants to attract and nurture creative talent who will design cutting-edge products. It wants established companies to set up studios, mentor and supply software to upcoming start-ups.
“From furniture design to jewellery design, software design to communication design, we want it to be the place to lead the action on innovation,” says Arun Balachandran, Chief Minister’s Fellow (IT), Government of Kerala. The Centre will work as an incubator for design professionals. “Typically, young designers tend to work on pirated software and generally adjust and create — we want to make licensed software available to them,” he says.
Kochi Design Week
Even before the Centre comes up, the action is hotting up. Next, Bolgatty in Kochi will turn into a veritable Design Island.
From December 12 to 14, at the Kochi Design Week, organised by the state department of Information Technology, creative professionals from several industries will converge to ideate, imagine and innovate.
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