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The "Design Concepts & Concerns" course is offered to all students in the Under Graduate and Post Graduate Programmes for Design at the National Institute of Design. The objective of this course is to introduce students to Design thinking and action and provide an introduction to design methods and processes as applied to all areas of design.
This course has been offered by Prof M P Ranjan to the foundation programme at NID since 1988 and over the years it has evolved from being called "Design Methodologies" to the present incarnation it has two forms, one for the UG programme and the second for the PG programmes in design. This year all PG disciplines at NID chose to offer this course as part of their regular curricullum. NID currently offers 11 PG disciplines which are bnroadly divided into three major Faculty streams, namely, Textile & Apparel Design, Communication design and Industrial design Faculties. The course was therefore offered to three batches, each of two weeks duration.
Batch 1 included 25 PG students from the Textile related disciplines of Textile Design (TD), Apparel Design & Merchandising (AMD) and Lifestyle & Accessory Design (LAD) disciplines.
Batch 2 included 65 Communications faculty students from the following disciplines: Graphic Design (GD), Film & Video Programming (FVP), Animation Design (AD),( the traditional disciplines) and New Media Design (NMD), Software & User Interface Design (SUID) and Information & Digital design (IDD) and due to scheduling reasons 4 students from the Toy Design discipline were also included in this batch.
Batch 3 included the Industrial Design faculty students from the following disciplines: Product Design, Furniture Design and Ceramic Design. Further two students from Toy Design who could not join the first group were accomodated in this batch of 45 students.
The links shown below lead to the picture gallary of work and activities in this class during the respective batches and each picture has been "watermarked" with the general caption that introduces the context of that image as quoted below:
Quote digital watermark caption for CD Batch 2: "Design Concepts & Concerns: Offered to students of PGDPD Batch of 2004 from the Communications Design streams and Toy design discipline at NID, Ahmedabad. These included Graphic Design, Film & Video, Animation, New Media, Software & User Interface, and Information & Digital Design disciplines.
Theme of this course was "Globalisation, Sustainability and Meaningful Employment" and the groups covered the following sectors as part of their investigations for brainstorming, structuring, modelling, researching and visualisation assignments in the process of learning Design Thinking and Action. Group explorations followed by presentations led to the development of conceptual models and representations of the attributes of each sector and these were presented and disciussed with the whole class.
Group 1: Broadcast TV - New TV Channel for Youth
Group 2: Mobile Telephony sector - Youth
Group 3: IPR and Digital Piracy of Music
Group 4: E-commerce and the Internet
Group 5: Phenomenon of Retail Malls
Group 6: Impact on Primary Education sector
Teachers: Prof. M P Ranjan & Rashmi Korjan
National Institute of Design, Paldi Ahmedabad India.
4th October 2004 to 16th October 2004
© 2004 M P Ranjan"
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Other batches were assigned different contextually relevant issues and economic sectors based on the chosen theme for this year, "Globalisation, Sustainability & Meaningful Employment Generation". The sectors chosen for each batch is listed below and in their respective digital watermarks embedded in each image file.
Batch 1: Chosen sectors are:
Group 1: Indian Garment export sector
Group 2: Indian SME sector for Export of Fashion Accessories.
Group 3: Indian Hospitality sector.
Batch 3: Chosen sectors are:
Group 1: Indian Crafts and Culture
Group 2: Banking and Finance Sector
Group 3: Eco Transpotation Sector
Group 4: Public Facilities and Services
Group 5: Tourism and Heritage sector
These are shared here with a hope that India will take the discipline of design with all seriousness anmd make the investments that are required to benefits of design thinking and action to all 230 sectors of our economy that are desperately in need of this input.
Prof M P Ranjan
National Institute of Design
Ahmedabad India
© 2004 M P Ranjan
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