Sarve Bhavanti Sukhinah/ Sarve santu Niramayah
Sarve Bhadrani Pashyanti, Ma Kashchid Dukh Bhag Bhaveta

Let every one without distinction be happy. Let every one be without any ailment. Let every one look like Arya, noble and righteous. Let there be no one to have any share of sorrow or grief.

A Sanskrit shloka from a traditional Indian Inscription with a translation in English

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We need your inputs for this blog to build a body of knowledge that would help in strengthening the Universal Design concept in design education and design practice in the country. We would also like to share your related projects or experiences addressing different needs of the diverse population.


Monday, April 19, 2010

OPEN ELECTIVES ON UNIVERSAL DESIGN at NID - January 2010

Open electives is one of the most exciting design and exploration sprees held at NID every year. Held in all campuses of NID, it reinforces the multi-disciplinary learning model that NID propagates. The electives, as is norm, are being offered to students in the 2nd year of the Graduate Diploma Programme in Design (GDPD) and the 1st year of the Post Graduate Diploma Programme (PGDPD) at NID, where the registration is done online on a first come first serve basis. With this year theme of Open Elective–‘Responsibly Designed for India’ NID floated two open electives on Universal Design. Out of these two, one could be conducted at NID Bangalore campus. This was coordinated by Prof. Singhampalli Balram, a well known name in Design Education and Ron Mace award winner for Universal design. We are publishing information on both electives in this blog, proposal of open elective that was floated in NID heritage campus and photographs of the one conducted at NID-Bangalore Campus.

OPEN ELECTIVE ON UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR SOCIAL SUSTENANCE at Heritage Campus , Paldi, Ahmedabad

This elective was floated by Rachna Khare (that’s me) and Praveen Nahar with an aim to popularize design strategies for universal usability and enable design students to

• Understand the needs of population with diverse needs.

• Understand and analyze the impact of design on diverse ability groups.

• Develop processes and proposals for designing inclusive environments.

• Understand universal design in right social and cultural perspective.

• Develop simple and economic universal designs solutions suiting our resources, materials and techniques.




OPEN ELECTIVE ON UNIVERSAL DESIGN at R & D Campus , Bangalore

This elective was conducted by Prof. Singhampalli Balram and Mr. Divya Darshan at NID, B’lore. This two-week elective started with introduction of Universal Design and exploratory field visits to local NGO’s working with people with functional limitations. The students after initial research identified the problem areas and developed their designs addressing these problem areas.





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