Smart Cities need Smarter Design Education | Sushant Verma | TEDxGurugram

[@swatigautam3121]

Excellent Talk! It was engaging to see the story build up from technology, to design to education and rightly throwing light on the static design education we have in the country. I hope that your steps and efforts towards making a change in the system works well for the whole. "I have my smart phone in my pocket but where is my smart education?" - A question rightly put forward. A well curated talk!

[@anchalchaudhary2892]

Its always interesting to hear TED talks that actually have some substance behind them, some product or advancement. Sushant, your talk inspires many of us to use technology to its maximum potential. Smart Cities definitely need smart education. Let me put it this way, Its not about designing a space using digital tools and technology but rather to design the space that could not have been either designed or build without them.

[@Abhishek.Saini28]

Completely agree with you Sushant.

[@vardhanmehta5003]

Short-sighted, delusional and cheap-thrilled. Technology is the answer but what is the question? Not this. As someone exposed to great design education and ALSO currently involved in the Smart City process, allow me to expose the shortcomings of your ill-informed thesis. Given your examples of futuristic 'precedents' (dress, chair, high rise and airport) by entitled designers from developed nations, parametricism-based building technology are unrealistic in a country where the current challenge is to raise the standard of living and get out of the developing status. Smart cities in India focus on redensification and revision of existing urban centers are not to create make-believe fetishist pseudo-futuristic products. A mission of 100 new urban projects involves democratic discourse executed by thousands of individuals, and is not produced by algorithms as you'd like to believe. Lastly, smart cities are not produced by 'smart people'. They exist to empower people.