NID to expand its footprint

Updated on: Monday, July 19, 2010

The National Institute of Design (NID) will expand to four more locations by next year, the Director of the Ahmedabad-based institute said. “While trying to chart a more global course in creative designing, the institute is also maintaining its identity and systems of traditional culture,” said Pradyumna Vyas, who is spearheading the new education programme at NID. “We are trying to take stock of the courses and revamp the design education system and its infrastructure so that it can sustain itself for the next 50 years,” he added.

The institute will also be propagating three core streams of design.

* The first includes industrial design, furniture and interior design, ceramic design and toy design.
* In the second stream, the attention will be on textile and apparel design and automation design.
* The third stream will deal with communication design in a holistic model.

NID will be expanding to independent IIT-like campuses in Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh — by next year, so students have much to cheer about. And to its credit, NID realised that the changing nature of students meant restructuring its design education programmes to make them more universal.

“Designing as a career is now more sought after than before. IIT graduates are joining NID, leaving behind their careers in technology to pursue designing,” Vyas pointed out. The institute is currently pioneering a unique design clinic project to address the need for improvisation in designing and packaging in several micro, small small and medium scale units in the country.

NID to expand its footprint

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