Design Yatra in Pune
Design Yatra, a nationwide initiative by Institute of Indian Interior Designers (IIID), touring 29 cities of India, covering 15,000 km in four Nanos, visited Pune from January 2, 2017 to January 12, 2017. The convoy of designers and architects visited India’s one of the largest design institute, MIT Institute of Design with an aim to spread awareness and take design to the masses.
Acknowledging the motto of My City, My Promise by IIID’s Design Yatra, MITID exhibited furniture with innovative design, which were designed by the student and faculty.
Some of the furniture’s that were designed on the specific brief with unique features were highly praised including The Mazeejh Bench made up of a woven seating surface, where the traditional craft of cotton rope is weaved with modern aesthetics providing an integrated storage space and the tokri which is created in a form of basket to maintain the feel and comfort of a basket for buyers to rest.
Films of Kirloskar Vasundhara International Film Festival were screened at the institute discussing on the allied activities related to the environment, wildlife, energy, air, and water. The yatra came to an end with a question-answered session related to the problems of the environment and ways to solve it were discussed and suggested by the students and faculties.
App for students with start-up projects
The Entrepreneurship School (TES) announced selection of the Glorifire mobile app for incubation programme at TES. It is a social app developed by Bhargavi Goel, Class XII student of Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj, to share ideas with the world, find a team member, collaborate with mentors and investors. The impetus provided by Prime Minister Narendra Modi through the Start-up India, Stand-up India initiative has ensured percolation of startup dreams to the school level.
The app solves this problem. It allows students to record and share their innovation projects on a social platform, which is available to teachers, mentors, entrepreneurs, and investors to understand these ideas. Once they find it interesting, they can interact with idea owner and get deeper understanding, build or support solutions to address the requirements using the idea and/or fund the idea for the student to pursue.
Sanjeeva Shivesh, CEO, TES said: “There is a high impact of the app developed by a person in her teens. We are excited about the use case of this app, its ability to help children who want to make a difference in the society and its possibility of massive adoption by school students all across India. We are impressed with the single-minded focus of Bhargavi about the challenges faced by adolescent school-goers and her intuitive insights on solving their problems”.
Thematic structure workshop by IIAD
Indian Institute of Art and Design (IIAD) has consistently strived to educate budding designers about the field of design by conducting various workshops with school students from the Capital.
A similar workshops — Thematic structure workshop — was conducted at the IIAD campus New Delhi for a group of 40 students from the batches of fashion, communication and interior architecture and design.
The day began with an informative campus tour, followed by an interactive session where they were introduced to the design programmes offered by IIAD and ended with a fun workshop on building 3D structures using Reed Grass. The main objective of this was to aid students in exploring the endless possibilities with naturally available materials. Therefore, in this workshop the students had to leverage their design thinking skills.