Dear Professor Ranjan
I have a long flight to Tokyo at the weekend and will endeavour to use it to look at some of your case studies.
Thank you.
Mark
Dr Mark Evans
Reader in Industrial Design
Design Practice Research Group Leader
Loughborough Design School
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Dear Dr Mark Evans
Do examine the case studies that are found on my blog but there are so many
more that are yet to be seen in print or even mentioned on any blog since
the state of design publishing here in India (as well as around the world)
is very lopsided and tend to miss out the real issues and core
contributions outside the glamour design and business space, the page three
space – sad, but this is my view.
Take a look at these web sites that showcase the work of some of my former
students from NID.
Daily Dump <http://www.dailydump.org/>
Design for Change <http://www.dfcworld.com/>
Design Directions <http://www.designdirections.net/>
Vikalp Design <http://www.vikalpdesign.com/>
Icarus Design <http://www.icarus.co.in/medical-design/>
there are many more......
In India this is particularly true and much of the work done by our
designer community is yet to receive the recognition that it deserves. Part
of the reason is also the apathy shown by our designers and design
education administrators to publishing reflective and scholarly articles on
the vast array of work that is currently going on across the country and in
so many sectors. This has been the case for over 40 years now and the
apathy that I refer to is also on the part of design education institutes
that have not taken on the mantle of dissemination of design work by its
faculty and students and they have also lost contact with their alumni and
are therefore quite disconnected from the professional activities done by
them in a fairly hostile climate for design services in a domain that is
dominated by technology, science and management focus which is the
preoccupation of both our Government as well as out corporate businesses it
seems.
However the climate is changing and design and design thinking is getting
some attention and several designers have taken up the task of offering
strategic services to business and government sectors, but this is far from
satisfactory in my opinion. I could see as an important area for design
advocacy and that is what led to me starting my blog called Design for
India. <http://design-for-india.blogspot.in/> Do take a look at the index
of terms on the left hand column and you will find several "case studies"
which may not be very deep but will help you access some of the efforts
being made in India and there are many more that I wish to write about when
time and research access permits. My 75 papers and other resources are
available for download on the Academia.edu site here <
http://cept.academia.edu/RanjanMP>
Besides the work done by trained designers we do have design action in the
field done by non-designers who have used design in an informal manner
which have shown great results. Some of these we included in our set of
posters that were researched and designed for the World Economic Forum in
2009. You can download these posters and read about this initiative on my
blog at this links here.
World Economic Forum <
http://design-for-india.blogspot.in/search/label/World%20Economic%20Forum>
Sustainability Posters <
http://design-for-india.blogspot.in/search/label/Sustainability%20Posters>
Sustainability <
http://design-for-india.blogspot.in/search/label/Sustainability>
By the way, a major conference on Histories of Design is taking place at
the National Institute of Design and you can see more about this event at
the NID website here, hopefully some of the missing links will be revealed
during this event. <http://www.dhs-nid2013.in/> from 5th September 2013 to
8th September 2013
Programme <http://www.dhs-nid2013.in/programme/>
With warm regards
M P Ranjan
from my Mac at home
21 August 2013 at 11.55 pm IST
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*Prof M P Ranjan*
*Design Thinker and author of blog -
www.Designforindia.com<http://design-for-india.blogspot.com/>
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