Participants to examine Ahmedabad's heritage and culture.
For three days from Friday, the city will see design students from across the country wandering its streets, noting down its characteristics and interacting with people.
The National Institute of Design’s (NID), design festival, called RBG, was planned not just to focus on design, but also to open the doors of opportunity for the visiting participants to witness the city's heritage and distinctive characteristics.
"The city has a lot to offer and if they do comehere, they should see the city well," said vice-president of the students' activity council Kabini Amin. The idea to let them see the city came up during the brain-storming session among students while they were in the initial stages of planning the event.
The event will have participants from design institutes in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Kolkatta, etc. Loaded with city maps provided by the state's tourism department, these students will visit various places, watch its heritage, culture and characteristics and illustrate their experiences in the form of a tourist-post card.
Advisor of AMC's Heritage Cell, Debasis Nayak will be one of the judges of the NID design competition.
Talking about further events that will also expose the visiting participants to the city, Amin said, "We also have a photography competition in which the participants will have to roam around the city and capture it in frames."
RBG is being held for the second time, the first being in 2007.
The design festival has around 14 competitive events that focus upon design talents and skills of the participants. The event has been aimed to create a platform where design students across the country can meet each other and share their philosophies, ideologies and various events of their campuses.
Amin said, "The objective of the event is reflected in RBG's most important event called 'show off'. The non-competitive event has called for entries from a panel of representatives from each design school to present the kind of work that goes on in their institutes.”
“The works that we have received in this category will be displayed for everybody to observe and understand," he said. Institute like CEPT and MICA from the city will also take part in the design competition event.
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