Designers in Kuwait have banded together to set forth a manifesto in hopes of creating a new trajectory of innovation and modernism for a country (Emirate?) that seems to be at an exciting turning point. Whether this becomes a set of ideas to push up against or a strict prescription for how to work, remains to be seen, but the earnestness and passion (frustration?) is evident.

Cynically I think to myself that - sure, it's Kuwait, it's easy to get a small population to agree on a few ideas. Try this in India with over 300 times the population! But that's lazy thinking. Maybe defining a Kolkata School is all that is needed to kick start a movement.

So what would be part of the Kolkata Manifesto?

Published by Brook Louis Meier in research