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Hello everybody -

My name's A.V. Varghese. Friends call me Avy. I'd been in journalism for around

20 years and still do some freelancing. I shifted to education in the art and

design domain with the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore

in 1999.

It has been a fruitful stint. Srishti ran a powerful workshop called Sunoh

recently which focussed on HIV-AIDS. The workshop was part of an ongoing

project/lab called

Communication for Change (C4C) in collaboration with the IIT Kanpur and the MIT

Media Lab Asia.

The objective was to project the fact that Communication is the FIRST MILE and

not the last as is usually assumed in bringing about social change with regard

to approach to and attitudes to HIV-AIDS. The project is also about bringing

together people from diverse domains of expertise/disciplines, socio cultural

platforms to work horizontally and multi-disciplinary to generate solutions to

the social problem at hand.

Sunoh was a success but Srishti is in the process of taking the project further.

Sunoh is a continuing program that seeks to effectively integrate technology and

mass communication within communities whose members have opinions to voice about

the path of development. As a project for social change, Srishti invites you to

join the process and contribute in your own way by adding to our growing archive

on issues relating to Communication for Change. So do get in touch.

Avy

E-mail:<avygravy@...>

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