NID’s founding faculty member and design educator, prof Kumar Vyas received the ‘Sir Misha Black Medal.
Nearly hundred members of the National Institute of Design (NID) community were present at the Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) on Saturday. They had gathered to not only launch the Ahmedabad chapter of Association of Designers of India (ADI) but to also discuss and come up with solutions on how to impart design education and thereby give rise to many a Kumar Vyas.
Saturday also witnessed the felicitation programme of NID's founding faculty member and design educator, prof Kumar Vyas, who received the 'Sir Misha Black Medal' for distinguished services to design education on March 8. While the NIDians reconnected with Vyas, remembering the time when they studied under him and learnt the nuances of design, they also explained features of ADI to the students and community at large.
Rashmi Korjan, visiting faculty at NID and member of ADI, explained that, “Our vision is to be a world class network which represents the professional interests of the Indian design community. We intend to create a meaningful interface with a web of design professionals, users, the industry, education institutions and policy makers.”
“In addition to these aims, ADI is also committed to promoting best practices in the profession of design in India. This is pursued by strengthening and promoting the capabilities of the Indian design profession, as well as amplifying and presenting a unified voice to influence public policy,” Korjan explained.
Talking about the importance of design education in India, especially with NID expanding into various other cities as well, ex-NID director, Ashoke Chatterjee said, “There has to be a three way approach to design education in India. First is the pedagogical aspect, then the teaching and most importantly, the teacher-training programme. Design education in India will vanish if we do not have design preachers like Kumar Vyas. However, the question remains about what is India doing in terms of investment in design education. We have to build teachers for the same without which future
Kumar Vyas cannot be born”.
Similar views were shared by NID alumnus and professor, Khalid Ameer Rafique who said, “Design education is not a one-day affair. We need great teachers in today's time to spread design education. There are no textbooks or methodology for design education. We need to have textbooks for designers to document. It is high time we do that. If ADI works in this direction, many things will change and design education will get its due importance.”
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