Dear Friends
I was invited to write a reflective piece on the connections between the
design pedagogy of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad and that of
the HfG Ulm to be included in a proposed issue of the Bauhaus Dessau
Foundation’s magazine issue that would look back at the impact of the
Bauhaus and Hfg Ulm on the Tropical nations of the world long after both
these German schools were shut down for different reasons. I have been
researching their connections with India for many years and this invitation
gave me an opportunity to continue my research a bit deeper into the
connections between the schools. I interviewed four former NID faculty who
had studied and worked closely with faculty from HfG Ulm in the early 60’s
when the NID was being founded at Ahmedabad and used this to build my
paper. Interesting new facts were revealed in these interviews and we will
need to do more before we have a deeper understanding of the real
influences and how these have shaped the foundation of design education in
India.
I have posted this on my blog Design for India at this link below
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http://design-for-india.blogspot.in/2013/06/web-of-connections-indian-design.html
>
You can also download the post from my Academia.edu site from this link here
<http://cept.academia.edu/RanjanMP>
direct link to paper
<http://academia.edu/attachments/31449926/download_file>
With warm regards
M P Ranjan
from my Mac at home on the NID campus
25 June 2013 at 9.35 am 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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(archival)
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