Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology

Sunoh was A workshop organized in May 2002 as an integral part of the Communication for Change course offered by the Social Communication (SCOM) Lab headed by Geetha Narayanan.

Supported by the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) and Media Lab Asia, Sunoh offered a multidisciplinary platform for designers, media professionals, NGOs, technologists and educators to come together.

Psychodynamic, scenario-building exercises were part of a process enabling participants to recognize contexts, taboos and problem-webs. Engagement with an issue within a design charette and its three mechanisms – idea generation and knowledge transfer among affected parties, decision-making requiring dialogue about emergent ideas and problem solving resulting in recommendations and proposals as process outcomes - offered possibilities of coming up with alternative models of communication to tackle HIV/AIDS. The process also resulted in the creation of a short film titled “The First Mile”.