We felt that interesting, innovative and creative work was emerging from various spaces across the country but that there was a missing platform to bring those ideas onto a common stage. KONA hopes to create a space for dialogue and discussion among and with architects, artists and engineers, while also providing us a space to think of new ways to live (and eat) in urban India. Essentially, KONA i
s a platform for young and emerging professionals in the design, organic gourmet and art space, who are experimenting with fresh ideas and challenging our conception of materials and their
functionalities.It is a platform for the collusion of ideas and work from a range of creative fields and opens up a spacefor engagement on how we eat, think and live. KONA, in Hindi and Urdu, means corner. Out of this corner, we hope we can create a movement for design and contemporary living.Pop-ups are becoming less uncommon in India today though the idea of creating temporal spaces is not new to exhibitors everywhere. For us at KONA, the pop-up is an experiment for the larger idea of a KONA as a multi-disciplinary platform, a collaboration among artists and new thinkers. Apart from exhibiting design, the short-term pop ups showcase exhibitions, discussions, screenings, ecology- and food- related events and demonstrations.
