Creating Attractive Urban Design

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Recently in Mumbai, the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands organized their annual festival titled – ‘Holland meets Mumbai’. For the Consulate, the festival had one very clear objective – it was conceptualized to create a platform that sustains dialogue between India and the Netherlands from a government, business and people-to-people perspective, across sectors. One of the main events within this was on the Creative Industries, a workshop titled: ‘Creating Attractive Outdoor Spaces’. Prior to the workshop, the designers visited the prestigious design school Indian School of Design & Innovation (ISDI), for a lively discussion on Indian urban design to increase their understanding of design in India. During the workshop, renowned Dutch designers interacted with a panel of prominent Indian designers to examine differences and similarities between both countries in the approach to ‘public space design’, with a focus on applicability to the Indian context. The overall theme for the day was set to reflect on possibilities of Indo-Dutch cooperation in the field of urban design.