A Brief History of Caravanserais

The English word Caravanserai, comes from a Turkish original, Kervansaray, which means “caravan-palace”. Strangely, the Turks call such a place a “khan”, not to be confused with the Mongol word “khan’ that means ‘king’.

The Caravan Participants

Adrian Cockle is a senior digital professional with twenty years experience leading projects and teams based out of UK. He is now an independent professional after nine years as the Head of Digital at WWF, delivering global campaigns that have helped persuade the Thai Prime Minister…

34 go mad in Ahmedabad

Mid October 2015, paraphrasing somewhat:

Me: …oh yeah, and I’m about to hand my notice in at work.

Jon: Shit dude, you’ve got to come to India with me.

Me: OK! Why? Who’s paying?

Jon: It’ll be fun…

UK-India 2017 year of ReImagine: Post Unbox Caravan

What is ReImagine Arts?

ReImagine is a five-year arts and culture initiative in India (2013–18) to build new creative connections between the people, and cultural institutions, of UK & India.

Camera Things

It is interesting how different environments of interpretation — the people, places and things that collide to make meaning — create for me an entirely new object, from an object I felt quite familiar with since childhood. The object I’m talking about is a disposable camera. It isn’t just that the…

Why a Caravan

UnBox has over the years been an emergent platform to showcase multi-disciplinary projects and conversations. We have explored multiple formats within this over the years. And much of UnBox’s evolution has been through conversations and collaborations with friends and partners across the world.

The Super Collaboration Highway

I’m not sure exactly who came up with the term Information Superhighway — seems like Clinton/Gore administration — or it might have been MIT — the who for me isn’t as important as the what. The notion that we have information and ‘providers’ connected in a perfect system…