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Dear Friends I met Elizabeth (Dori) Turnstall at the IDSA conference. She is a Design Anthropologist teaching at the UIC, Chicago. She is an Associate Professor of Design Anthropology at University of Illinois at Chicago as well as an Associate Director of the City Design Center. She has a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University and did her undergraduate degree at Bryn Mawr College in Anthropology as well. See link: <http://dori3.typepad.com/about.html> She has commented on the Panel that was moderated by Uday Dandavate and in which I spoke and her comments are very flattering indeed. However our feelings are mutual since I too was very impressed by her work on categorising world design education schools and colleges using a three dimensional matrix across the following axis of x, y, and z: This can be applied to departments within design schools since I can see that our school too has many approaches within the 14 disciplines that we teach at NID. And things are changing fast and many strengths of the past are being dramatically changed without necessarily taking stock of where we are and where we need to go from here. This is good model to help schools and departments take a deep look at themselves in order to build diagnostic frameworks for curricullum development and framing teaching content.. X axis: Product & Artifact orientation to Design Process Orientation Y axis: Hands on Skilled orientation to Hi-Tech & IT centered orientation Z axis: Applied Arts orientation to Business Process orientation. According top her research all schools can be placed somewhere along these three axis and we can then compare them for what they are and what they are offering. Very interesting, must get her full report. You can see her comments of Day 4 of the IDSA Austin conference at the link below on her Blog link below: <http://dori3.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/09/idsa_2006_final.html> With warm regards M P Ranjan from my office at NID 28 September 2006 at 3.35 pm IST Prof M P Ranjan Faculty of Design Head, Centre for Bamboo Initiatives at NID (CFBI-NID) Chairman, GeoVisualisation Task Group (DST, Govt. of India) (2006-2008) Faculty Member on Governing Council (2003 - 2005) National Institute of Design Paldi Ahmedabad 380 007 India Tel: (off) 91 79 26623692 ext 1090 (changed in January 2006) Tel: (res) 91 79 26610054 Fax: 91 79 26605242 email: [log in to unmask] web site: http://homepage.mac.com/ranjanmp/ web domain: http://www.ranjanmp.in