Deshpande Foundation Conference

dplay to attend Development Dialog Jan2011

Hubli, 25 Jan 2011: The Development Dialogue is an annual event hosted by the Deshpande Foundation that brings together hundreds of practitioners, academics, investors, grassroots activists, philanthropists and entrepreneurs from all over India and abroad. Over three days, delegates share and collaborate on strategies to improve life and livelihoods for those at the bottom of

MIT-100K EPC 2010

dplay selected finalists at the MIT-100K EPC!

Cambridge 21 Oct 2010: dplay has been selected as a finalist in the Web/IT track for 2010 MIT 100K Elevator Pitch Contest. This year Web/IT was one of the larger of the six tracks in the competition with over 80 participants from Harvard, MIT, Babson, Northeastern and other universities. dplay pitched its cloud

from the studio

Welcome Prabhat Mahapatra!

New Delhi, 07 Nov 2010:  Prabhat Mahapatra joins dplay as a Senior Designer. He graduated from the Industrial Design Center at IIT Bombay with specialisation in Product Design. As a professional, he has been involved in the design development of over 40 products in different markets, ranging from chilli holders for the Indian dining table to electric scooters for the Indian youth. At

from the studio

Welcome Rajat Sodhi !

New Delhi, 01 Nov 2010: Rajat Sodhi joins dplay as a Design Associate. He is a graduate from the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London where he studied Parametric Urbanism at the AA Design Research Lab and the AA Diploma. At the AA he participated in the design and construction of the [C] Space DRL10 Pavilion and has exhibited his work

from the studio

Welcome Trushit Vyas!

New Delhi 31 Oct 2010:  Trushit Vyas joins dplay as a Senior Designer. Trushit graduated from Pratt Institute, New York with a Master of Science in Architecture and is the author of the book, ‘Hybrid Modernity of Adaptive Bodies, Confrontation of Hybrid Programs in Financial District, NYC’. His philosophy and inspiration of design is a speculative debate and experimental

from the studio

Welcome Arefin Mohiuddin!

Kolkata, 21 Oct 2010:  Arefin Mohiuddin joins dplay as a design computation intern. He will investigate ‘High Performance Building Envelopes’ with the aim of reducing the carbon footprint of residential buildings in Kolkata by calculating optimum envelope shapes at the early conceptual stage of design.  His research extends dplay‘s prior work on climatologically high performance building envelopes.

Under dplay mentorship,