Design intervention could bring a turnaround in different sectors in the country, says NID faculty MP Ranjan.
Taking a futuristic view of the government's plans to set up various design institutes on the lines of the National Institute of Design (NID), and considering the faculty crunch in this field, NID has started sensitizing its students towards taking design education as a subject.
A programme called Design Concepts and Concerns (DCC), which is a part of the one-year foundation course for the undergraduate students, this year assigned its students projects to stimulate their vision of various design schools contextually suitable for different parts of the country.
Six different groups of students have been assigned the task of researching, analyzing, understanding and designing the framework of six design education institutes in the east, west, north, south, central and the north-eastern regions of the country.
The exercise aims not only to hone the students' skills about design thinking but also to teach them the importance of design education.
NID faculty MP Ranjan who is anchoring the programme, said: "The exercise will help the students take interest in becoming academicians, or foray into design education in the future, if not today." He said, "The Ulm which was an experimental design school in Germany from 1953 to 1968, still has an impact on various design schools including NID. Why can't we also come up with such a school?"
Talking about the need of design in states and design application in the country, Ranjan said: "There are 230 sectors in the country that need application of design thinking and action. NID might be roughly attending to around 30 sectors. The remaining 200 sectors including agriculture, health services, financial services, power and so on are still unattended. Design intervention could bring a turnaround in these sectors."
With a good amount of groundwork and understanding invested by the students, the documentation of the students' works could also serve as a good reference for policy makers and planners while setting up the design schools. Chief Coordinator, Foundation Programme at NID, Chakradhar Saswade said: "Though the assignments to the students are individual course attempts, it might be influential in the setting up of the designs schools in future."
The works of the students will be displayed at a presentation in NID on March 26 in an event called 'Concept Mela' which will be open to people interested in the field, from 3.30 to 6 pm.
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