NID alumni discuss design education

Alumni of the National Institute of Design gathered in the city on Saturday to felicitate one of the institutes founding faculty who recently won an international award for design teaching.

Alumni of the National Institute of Design (NID) gathered in the city on Saturday to felicitate one of the institutes founding faculty who recently won an international award for design teaching.

But the gathering was also a platform where some expressed their concerns in the wake of new design schools coming up across the country.

Professor Kumar Vyas,who worked with Dashrath Patel (the first NID faculty and accliamed designer who passed away earlier this year) had recently received the Sir Misha Black Medal 2011 for Excellence in Design Education.

Ashok Chatterjee,who was director of NID between 1975 and 1985,asked,Where are the Kumar Vyases of today? He was referring to the shortage of design faculty even as the Indian government is in the proces of setting up four new NIDs amidst a faculty crunch at the sole existing institute.

Chatterjee questioned the lack of funds and investment to promote design education in India,and said more faculty should be trained to man new design institutes.

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