Innovation Design is about making interactions
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Alok Nandi works on the dynamics of innovation and storytelling: he intervenes to decode complex situations and explore the co-design of transformation scenarios.
A triple education in engineering (Ecole Polytechnique de l'Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB), in management (Solvay Business School, VUB) and in film writing (Philo et Lettres, ULB), as well as his first experience at Procter & Gamble in brand management, have armed Alok Nandi to explore innovation in an agnostic manner.
Between 1997 and 2003, he implemented the web/digital presences of Editions Casterman (Tintin, Corto Maltese, Moebius, Le Chat by Geluck, Nestor Burma and Adèle Blanc-Sec by Tardi, les Cités obscures by Schuiten-Peeters, etc.) and of the Flammarion group (Literature, Medicine, Schools, J'ai lu, Delagrave, etc.), to then launch a spin-off in augmented realities and interactive scenographies which were installed at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, at Futuroscope, in science museums such as Technopolis, Pass, etc.
In 2004, he founded Architempo and since then has been active in prospective projects, leading strategic design works, and supporting the implementation of design-driven innovation roadmaps. Decoding practices and patterns, Alok Nandi connects fields of action in a transdisciplinary way, linking entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, innovation and “design thinking & making”.
Alok Nandi is represented by MINDS who will follow up any request for intervention, conference, panel or workshop convening on topics linked to #innovation #strategicXdesign #leadership #organisationXnarrative #storytelling #europindia
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In parallel to Innovation Design activities, Alok Nandi has teached in numerous institutions (design, cinema, architecture schools, MBA programs, executive education sessions) and is a professor of innovation and design at the Lyfe Institute in Lyon since 2014, co-founded by Paul Bocuse, 3-star chef, and Gérard Pélisson (Accor Group). He is also developing Life Long Learning modules – w/ coCreationcamp, Klabfab.
In addition to his interventions in organizations, he has been an advisor for Lille 3000 and Bozar Brussels, and is active in boards of directors: past president of the Civil Society of Multimedia Authors in Belgium; past global president of IxDA, Interaction Design Association (150,000 members). He is an expert for the Belgian, Canadian, French governments, EU, in the sectors of new media, design and innovation, as well as education.
He has designed exhibitions (Cannes Film Festival, Cité du Design in St-Etienne, red dot design museum in Essen, etc.) and co-produced a feature-length documentary film (selected in 42 film festivals, incl. Venice). He has published books on cinema, design, innovation and dozens of articles, and was a radio columnist for BFM Paris on the IndeHebdo program.
He founded PechaKucha Night Brussels, in connection with Tokyo, and organized more than 75 PechaKucha events, bringing together more than 1000 speakers, between 2007 and today.
Alok b. Nandi can be connected via Linkedin or Instagram and can be found on nandi.mobi.
