CM announces Design Incubator for start-ups to rebuild Kerala

Kochi | Thursday | 13th December, 2018

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KOCHI: Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said that his government is planning to set up a 'Design Incubator’ for start-ups to offer design solutions to rebuild the flood-ravaged state. He was addressing the two-day #Design Kerala Summit that concluded on Wednesday.“Kerala faced the century’s worst devastating floods and the challenge to rebuild Kerala is what lies ahead of us. We thought of getting the global expertise and ideas in design thinking to rebuild and re-imagine Kerala,” he said, welcoming design thinkers from across the world to the Kochi design week at Bolghatty Convention Centre. "It is to bring in design skills for sustainable living,” Vijayan said. The design week is set to conclude on December 16.The chief minister said, “Recent floods reveal that climate change and global warming effects are already affecting us and we are facing the result of our indiscriminate action..