Invitation for Design Dialogues, NID, Ahmedabad
NID Ahmedabad invites you to the two-day conference titled “Design Dialogues: Reinterpreting Design” to be held on 9th and 10th of October 2015 at NID Ahmedabad.The conference is aimed at sensitizing people regarding design and to develop a concrete collective understanding of design which showcases the true powers and abilities of design, especially the ability of design to impact the human lives and dignity that is no less than any other mainstream discipline. The conference will also focus on the importance and relevance of design in the new and emerging creative and knowledge economy and to develop a contextually applicable common understanding of design that can then be passed on to educate the masses about the power and worth of design for a country, culture, society, individuals and industry.
Today the world is getting more and more networked and merged forcing the classical knowledge domains and their boundaries to be increasingly intertwined and intermixed. Design is one of the few disciplines whose very existence is based on this kind of interweaving and holistic synthesis. Though this emerging social and world scenario seems more conducive to design and design thinking, it still compels us to relook and re-interpret the design and design education paradigms and pedagogies to make them more relevant and aligned to the present and evolving needs and more so to define an Indian idiom for design.
Though design is dependent on, draws from and is enriched by all the various domains of knowledge ranging from the arts, humanities to sciences, economics and commerce to management and technology to business, yet through its unique ability to synthesize, integrate, cross feed, humanize and synergize these diverse domains, it has the capacity to innovate and enrich these domains by invoking symbiotic relationships among them.
Thus, these dialogues will augment and benefit people from all domains and hence we invite all interested professionals, educators, entrepreneurs, et al from all the various fields like humanities and social sciences, management, engineering and technology, the sciences, business and management, architecture, etc. for a two day intense dialogue between them, the designers and the design educators on reshaping of design and design education.
The two-day conference will be conducted in a purely inclusive and interactive way and there will be no one-sided talks except a few short themes to provoke the dialogues.
We kindly request your valuable participation for the same.
Participation is FREE but prior
registration is mandatory. Please register at
Date: 9th and 10th October 2015
Time: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
For further details, call us or write
us at:
Ms. Rupali Sinha 079-26629746
Mr. Milan M. 079-26629767
email: designdialogues@nid.edu
With best wishes,
National Institute of Design Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad, Paldi -7
