Industrial Arts and Design Practices

This Industrial Arts and Design Practices, Postgrad.Dip. course from Manipal Academy of Higher Education first year is an introduction to design and explores different kinds of practices in design, building on knowledge and skills that you bring in from your undergraduate studies.

The Industrial Arts and Design Practices , Postgrad.Dip. course from Manipal Academy of Higher Education gives you a grounding on current thinking on design which goes beyond materials and media.

This thinking is developed largely through hands-on making of different kinds. Drawing and making are explored as tools of expression, understanding, building complex connections and the imagination. Making here is seen as an engagement with the world and with oneself. It goes beyond skills to thinking and is seen as the connection between the heart, the hand and the mind. Srishti Manipal has excellent workshop facilities for textiles, wood, metal, digital fabrication, print labs, electronic labs and much more. Through the contexts in the various units, students could work with different materials learning skills independently and experimenting with new ways of making. Thus students develop autonomy in learning as they prepare to join the M.Des program.

These capability sets equip and prepare the student for a wide range of opportunities with:

• Masters Programs– Join the Masters programs at Srishti Manipal and other Design insititures that require 4 years of UG education
• Creative Manufacturing Sectors– To be able to work in the non-governmental sector as well as mainstream Industry.
• Family owned and managed Businesses– working for or creating a family venture, to bring in new practices and methods to rejuvenate older traditions.
• Start-ups, small and medium enterprises– Propositioning as a contemporary practitioner, entrepreneur or design consultant

Courses include:

• Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary studios

• Workshops

• Seminars

• Lines of Inquiries (Field work, Case Studies, Investigations, individual or Group Projects, Transdisciplinary Research)

• Theory and Understanding

• Independent Study

• Open Elective

• Practice

• Exhibitions

• Culminating Performances of Understanding (Portfolio, Transdisciplinary research, Projects, Colloquium, Capstone/Dissertation)