Category: How: Stakeholders and systems

Design in Indian schools

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.

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Every child can: Riverside school’s design-led approach to empowering children

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.

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Learning through Arts, Narrative, and Discourse

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.

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Design in education: how to make it happen

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.

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