Pawan Pagaria
There is no one way of approaching design in education and Pawan Pagaria has had his fair share of experiments with an attempt to make it work. Frameworks, workshops, games, textbooks, he has tried it all. In this contribution, we ask him to share how he applies design to crack design in education and how far he has come.
Kiran Bir Sethi
What does it take to ‘design’ a school, curriculum, business and society? We take a look at the journey of designer and educator Kiran Bir Sethi and understand her position on design in education and the impetus for founding initiatives like Design for Change. Her journey, with design as a primary vehicle, across expanding domains of creative practice helps us understand design as a social project. This piece also looks at how and why design permeates into the day-to-day of The Riverside School she set up in Ahmedabad and what her advice is for schools that want to facilitate design in education.
Kriti Sood has pioneered what it means to co-develop a curriculum with teachers. In this piece we invite her to share her experiences doing the same in different settings. As a curator, she has a knack for pairing experts with different backgrounds to create something new. Her approach to design in education is boutique and mindful, and we hope this contribution will show our readers how small things can lead to a big impact.
Srishti has been working as a Knowledge Partner with the Delhi government to implement a visual arts curriculum from grades 9-12. In this piece we evoke the government school classroom – the practical challenges of that ecosystem, the irony of implementing design learning in schools and the creative solutions that triumph across it.
Design exists in everyday life scenarios as products, services and systems. If the purpose of education is to expand our understanding of the world, what can we learn from design in our everyday? Design surrounds us, without us even knowing it. We take an ordinary scene in everyday urban life, and then decode design in it. We have two ‘dissections’ like this. This contribution will decode the making and thinking behind designed objects that we encounter on a regular basis.
Here, we invite currently studying and recent graduates of design to share their favourite projects. Chosen from different disciplines in Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, these projects will demonstrate student potential and future of design.
Manu Neelakandhan
A reflective journey of a design stalwart – why he chose to practice design, what it did for him, how he engages with varied stakeholders in his journey and articulates the value of design to them, and what the value of design is as a social, cultural, and ecological catalyst.
Charles and Ray Eames
Design is a fairly new imagination in India. It’s not that it didn’t exist, but it wasn’t recognized as such. Keeping its founding story in mind, what is the genesis of design education? Who are the important people, places? What are the milestones in its evolution to the shape and form it has taken today? We find out in this illustrated story.
A Jayanthi
How we manage time and what path we choose to take are very important in life and therefore we need to be judicious in our management of both.
Teachers are magicians. The kind of classroom environment they create leads to not just curricular learning, but social and emotional development as well. This issue of Teacher Plus gives teachers the tool of design to create some more magic.
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