NID to help UP govt revive its design institute

“Our report focusses on the fact that crafts can be a part of the creative industry. Since UP has the largest number of practising artisans who practise more than 32 different crafts, the design institute should train students in a way that brings them together with craftsmen to initiate new ventures and support the local economy. We have proposed launching two academic programmes by next year. These include a three-year diploma degree in craft design and a two-year post-diploma in craft entrepreneurship. Several short-term courses in skill development, capability enhancement workshop related to craft design with a duration of one to five weeks can be initiated,” said Vijai Singh Katiyar, principal designer and senior faculty at NID.

Singh added that while a Central Design Centre was set up in 1952 in the current building, it had become old and unsuitable to impart design education and new infrastructure would be required.

NID has also proposed that the new design institute set up an innovation centre for evolving new products and ideas and an incubation centre to support the formation of new companies in its report.

“As UP’s crafts sector is highly decentralised, there is a demand for value addition in the crafts sector. This has led us to come up with a multi-pronged strategy of innovating new products, evolving communication strategies and disseminate information and corresponding to future needs of the sector through the education requirements at the institute. The fee range would be ideally between Rs 25-30,000. NID has suggested a batch size of 15 students that may go up to 30 per batch per programme. Depending on the success of the courses, we will review the programmes after 3-4 years to see if the institute needs to be scaled up and whether it should have more centres in every district,” Singh added.

NID’s report stressed that UP’s new design institute would be very different from NID’s structure and focus on imparting hands-on-learning, understanding of design, while working in tandem with the state’s thriving crafts and complimentary industries.

Incidentally, a four-member faculty team from NID had aided a new four-acre Kerala State Institute of Design (KSID) located in Quilon district in building their course curriculum and evolving a teaching pedagogy to start PG Diploma courses.

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