1st Edition
Perspectives on Design Education in India and Asia
This book spotlights design and media education in Asia, with contributors providing their reflections on curriculum development, pedagogy, and practice from Australia, China, Japan, India, Mongolia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Turkey.
The chapters provide in-depth and specific examples of how curricula and educational resources have been organised with respect to a wide variety of subjects including aesthetics, engineering, and practice-based coursework. These course plans have also been adapted to respond to questions of integrating emerging technologies in the classroom and addressing changing industry needs, as well as the need to encourage resilience and leadership skills across student and faculty cohorts. Although not an analysis of educational and industrial policies, some key documents such as The India Design Report of 1958 by Charles and Ray Eames and India’s National Education Policy of 2020 are referenced to provide important background information for understanding the past, present, and future of the design education ecosystem across the region.
Presenting both historical context and practical contemporary applications of curricula in specific universities and design schools, this volume is compiled to share resources among faculty and researchers interested in global Asian design pedagogy who have previously relied upon publications centred on the UK and US contexts. It will appeal to design educators and anyone responsible for design education curricula across the Asian region and beyond.
1. Introduction: Design Education, Four Phenomena Peer M. Sathikh Part 1: Approaches to Modern Design Education Within and Beyond the Classroom 2. Frameworks for Design and Media Education at the School of Art, Design, and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore – A personal experience Peer M. Sathikh 3. Paracurricular and Paracuratorial Constellations: Enabling a culture of enrichment and independent inquiry Karin G. Oen Part 2: Design and Media Education in India: Undergraduate Curricula 4. Our Journey in Design Education: A case study of IIT Guwahati D. Udaya Kumar 5. Pathways of Design Education for a Changing World P.V.M. Rao 6. The Design Learning Ecosystem in India: Anchored in both traditional and contemporary skills Ravi Poovaiah 7. Pedagogical Constructs: Visual Communication Design programme at Srishti Institute of Art, Design & Technology Kumkum Nadig Part 3: Design and Media Education Landscapes in India: Admissions, Faculty Development, and Matching Industry Needs 8. Design Aptitude Test: An Indian Experience Venkatesh Rajamanickam 9. Design Education in India: How might we develop resilient faculty mentors? Learnings as an errand boy, as a professional, and academic Sanjay Jain 10. Views from the Front Line Ashish Deshpande 11. The Designer Puzzle: Why aren’t designers in leadership? Narendra Ghate Part 4: Design and Media Education Across Asia 12. Design Education in Context: Singapore Jesvin Yeo 13. Towards a Resilient Design Education Xavier Ho 14. Reorganising the Curriculum: A response to the expanding design industry Minako Ikeda 15. Transdisciplinary Innovation Design Education at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in China Shuxin Cheng 16. The Cold War Revisited: The history and pedagogy of the industrial design programme at METU Fatma Korkut 17. Design Education in the Philippines Mia Embalzado-Mateo and Palmy Pe-Tudtud 18. Design Education in Mongolia Shinezaya Enkhbat Part 5: Reflections - Design Education and Leadership 19. From the Bauhaus and Black Mountain to Singapore: Creating a meta-art, design, and media school Vibeke Sørensen 20. Designing the Future: Insights and inspirations from 30 years in Asia’s creative landscape Steven Kyffin
Biography
Peer M. Sathikh is an artist–designer–engineer who has had the privilege to study all three at institutes of repute. Sathikh joined NTU in 2008 after twenty-two years of experience as a designer and entrepreneur. He has been involved in both design industry initiatives as well as in design education at all levels in Singapore since 1992. A serial entrepreneur, Sathikh co-founded an injection moulding company in Chennai, India that is fast becoming a sought-after supplier for producing specialised parts for the automotive industry.
Prof. Ravi Poovaiah is a senior faculty at IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay. His pedagogic as well as research and design interests are in fields related to Interaction Design, Communication Design, Product Design and specifically in Visual Language, Information Visualization, Visual Narratives, Collaborative Open Learning Environments and Designing for Children.
Venkatesh Rajamanickam is a Professor at the IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay. He is a HCI designer, educator and researcher. His Information Design Lab at IIT Bombay utilizes graphic design, interactive computer graphics, data-processing algorithms and emerging technologies to address challenging problems in data, design and art.
Karin G. Oen is a curator and art historian based in Singapore where she is Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, Art History, at Nanyang Technological University’s School of Humanities. She works on historical, modern, and contemporary creative practices related to the transcultural and the transmediatic. Starting in July 2024, she will also take on the role of Director of the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.
