Lecture series 2022 / Rithvik and Tanveera
Title: Humans, Immersion, and Experiences A session curated for Design school students as an introduction to Immersive Design. In the session we will explore: The caveats of working with Extended Reality (XR) Human centric approach to XR Designing for immersive experiences
Lecture series 2022 / Bose Krishnamachari
Title: The Biennale Model Bose Krishnamachari on the confluence of art, architecture and culture in his talk on “The Biennale Model” in the backdrop of Kochi – Muziris Biennale 2022, which in recent years has rose to one of the largest art exhibitions in the country and the biggest contemporary art festivals in Asia.
Dr. Prasad Onkar is appointed the HOD of Dept. of Design
Dr. Prasad Onkar is appointed the HOD of Dept. of Design. He replaces Dr. Deepak John Mathew who was in the position since 2014.
Lecture series 2022/ Rajesh and Troy
Rajesh Thakare and Troy Vasanth are internationally acclaimed filmmakers and designers. They are founders of Blackbird Design Studio. Their journey in design has begun after completing their masters from the National Institute of Design (NID). Their student film, ‘Good Morning Mumbai’ has received numerous awards and recognition. In this session, they will discuss the creative …
EML – VLS lecture by Dr Richard Stallman on 25th Oct
Title: The Free Software Movement and GNU The Free Software Movement campaigns for computer users’ freedom to cooperate and control their own computing. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, typically used together with the kernel Linux, specifically to make these freedoms possible. GNU is free software: everyone has the freedom to copy …
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Lecture series 2022 / Earthen Tunes
Santosh kocherlakota, Nakul Lathkar, Vidyadhar Bhandare are co-founders of Earthen Tunes founded by the alumni of the National Institute of Design-Ahmedabad. Earthen Tunes is a social enterprise presently trying to build a better India for the future . Earthen Tunes in presently being incubated by the Rural Technology and Business Incubator at IIT-Madras.
PhD Jan 2023 admission portals is now closed
PhD Jan 2023 admission portal is open from 28 Sept to 14 Oct 2022. For applying, visit portal here.
Lecture series 2022 / Max Schleser
Title: Cinematic VR The presentation will explore imaginative storytelling practices and processes for Cinematic Virtual Reality and 360° video production. Max Schleser will present two Creative Arts research projects A New Dawn (Schleser 2021, 26min) and Steel City (Schleser 2021, 19min). Max Schleser (BA Hons, MA Art and Media Practice with Distinction, PhD Westminster) is a Professor in Film and …
Lecture series 2022 / Jacob Puthenparambil
Title: Storytelling and Reputation Can storytelling build and maintain reputations? If so, what kind of stories? Is there a genre that for reputation building? Does visual stories work better?” Let’s find out and analyse some case studies. Jacob Puthenparambil is the founder and CEO of Redhill, as well as a communications expert, opinion leader, author, …
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Lecture series 2022 / Kanaka Ananth
Title: A designer’s entrepreneurship journey Kanaka’s experience of founding and Indian theme based development and marketing of toys based in Coimbatore. Kanaka Ananth is Director of Studio Maniams, a design studio for design, development and marketing of indigenous toys based in Coimbatore. She is an architect and an industrial designer/ toy designer from the first …

