narrative & interactive

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As a designer, author and creative entrepreneur, Alok Nandi works on hybrid systems. Building on experiences as creative director and design strategist, nandi.mobi looks at narrative and design, in their multiple dimensions and manifestations.

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Creative Director & Strategic Designer. Founder PechaKucha Brussels. IxDA Brussels Leader. Professor at culinary/hospitality Institut Lyfe, co-founded by Chef Paul Bocuse, Lyon. Past President at IxDA global (Interaction Design Association). Past President at Société civile des Auteurs multimédia, Brussels. Ex. Flammarion, Casterman, P&G - Procter & Gamble.

“ Design is about making interactions between fiction & function & form.” – Alok b. Nandi

Goût / Goûter ~ Taste / Tasting ~ Smaak / Proef

Valencia - World Design Capital - WDC 2022

Design Muscat - June 2022

PechaKucha ~ each speaker has 6 minutes 40 sec. for a presentation in 20 images. Each image is on screen for only 20 seconds. No more, no less.
20 images x 20 seconds each. Tempo, story, tension, show-and-tell. To-date 1000+ speakers at PechaKucha Night Brussels, est. in 2007.

“ Design is about making interactions between play & display & replay.” – Alok b. Nandi

Work in Process

IxDD x France Design Week
Strategic Design – Workshops en stratégie à l’exportation
PechaKucha Night Brussels Vol.66
P-R-E at Cumulus Antwerp
Keynote and Jury Member for Cisco BeLux Innovation Hackathon
Sustainable Innovation 2023 – in the Creative Economy and Creative Industries
Design Collaboration in Higher Education Forum
Jury Member for Laval Virtual 2023
Kochi Design Week
Debug Bengaluru – Design Open
Bengaluru Design Festival 2022
India Food Systems 2022
Food Transition – Meet Up #03
Valencia WDC – Design Policy Conference
Stereopsia 2022 – XR and metaverse, the next utopia?

eFood 2022

Design Narratives ~ podcasts & webinars

“ Design is about making interactions between go & give & get.” – Alok b. Nandi

Alok b. Nandi is active as designer, author, speaker, educator, creative entrepreneur.

“ Design is about making interactions between now & next & narrative.” – Alok b. Nandi

Satyajit Ray at 70 / at 100

100 on May 2nd, 2021 –

Book conceived and edited in 1991 by Alok b. Nandi, as homage for the 70th birthday of the film maker Satyajit Ray – preface by Henri Cartier-Bresson and photographs by Nemai Ghosh, in parallel to an exhibition at Cannes Film Festival, and more.

Transfiction ~ A VR/AR/MR framework and narrative engine conceptualised by A. Nandi for interactive immersive installations - see Tech-Narrative and Transfiction

Schuiten - Peeters - Nandi

“ Design is about making interactions between patterns & places & possibles.” – Alok b. Nandi