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Justification for New Design Schools - 13 September 2003 - Prof. M P Ranjan Dear Friends I have been looking for statistics on design schools in industrialised and newly industralised countries to develop an arguement for the setting up of new design schools at the University level in India. I seek your support in pointing out new sources that can be checked out for data on the population of designers in each country in relation to the general population and if available some information on the impact of design and designer population on the economic and social development of countries. I came across a very interesting study by the Japan Industrial Promotion Organisation that dates back to 1980 and some stats from this report are quoted below. I am looking for similar data from any country or countries on or off the list so that this can be compiled to make my arguement for a substantial increase in quality design educational seats in India at the University level. I am quoting below some extracts from the report that I had circulated to my colleagues in India in search of current data and statistics. QUOTE "International Survey on Design Promotion", Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organisation, Osaka, 1980 The survey covered 20 countries for the 'Survey of Design Activities' and 106 Organsations from 48 countries on "Summary Survey on Activities of Design-Related Organisations. There are a number of interesting bar charts that show the analysis of the data that the survey has generated which is summarised below for ready reference. Table 2-1 Social Recognition of Design ( note: according to the JIDPO note this stage was reached at around the 1960's and in some countries education of designers started before this event and in some others this was a cause for the commencement of new education programmes) Europe 1930 - 1950 Finland 1945 Czechoslovakia 1950 Sweden 1957 East Germany 1959 Spain 1959 West Germany 1960 Norway 1965 Ireland 1965 Austria 1970 Switzerland Asia 1960 Japan 1960 -1970 India 1969 Hong Kong 1970 Korea America 1946 USA 1960 Mexico 1963 Argentina Table 2-2 Number of Designers per Million Population Finland..................... 126 (persons) Japan....................... 95 East Germany......... 72 West Germany........ 50 Czechoslovakia....... 43 Isreal........................ 37 USA......................... 33 Norway.................... 20 Austria..................... 19 Korea....................... 16 Spain........................ 14 Ireland...................... 13 Switzerland.............. 12 Mexico..................... 07 Argentina................. 04 Philippines............... 03 India......................... >01 This data is old but it does show the number of designers in the industrialised and newly industrialised nations and India in 1980 had a very low penetration of designer creation. The situation today is no better, on the other hand it seems to have got much worse. Table 2-5 Includes Year of Initiation of Design Education in the respective countries 1900's Finland, Czechoslovakia & Japan 1920's East & West Germany 1930's USA 1950's Korea 1960's Spain, Mexico & Austria 1970's Argentina, Isreal, Hong Kong & India 1975+ Sweden, Norway, Ireland & Philippines Table 2-6 Number of Design Training Institutios classified by country 1 (school) ... Hong Kong / Norway 2 (shcools).. Argentina, Austria, India, Isreal, Ireland, Philippines, Sweden 3 (schools).. Czechlovakia 4 (schools).. Germany (DR), Finland 15 (schools).. Spain 16 (schools).. Korea 20 (schools).. Japan 21 (schools).. Germany (FR) 30 (schools).. USA Table 2-8 Annual Number of Graduates from Design Training Institutions (College or University) America > 10 ........... Mexico, Argentina 500 ........... USA Asia > 10 ........... Philippines > 50 ........... Hong Kong, Isreal, India 100 .......... Korea 1000 ............ Japan Europe > 10 ........... Austria, Ireland, Sweden. Norway 50 + ............ Finland 75 .............. Czechoslovakia 100 ............. East Germany 300 ............. West Germany Source: "International Survey on Design Promotion", Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organisation, Osaka, 1980 UNQUOTE I would appreciate any contributions of sources on the web or in print that we could follow up to substantiate our arguements. With warm regards M P Ranjan from my ofice at NID 13 September 2003 at 7.00 pm IST ------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. M P Ranjan Faculty of Design and Head, NID Centre for Bamboo Initiatives National Institute of Design Paldi Ahmedabad 380007 INDIA Fax: 91+79+6605242 Home: 91+79+6610054 Work: 91+79+6639695 ext 1090 -------------------------------------------------------------------