Workshops

Workshops conducted by experts from the industry, academia and other disciplines from within the institute to nurture the budding students. These workshops help students to understand various design processes and their execution within a time frame.

 
 
 

Product Design Workshop

Workshops are conducted to identify various elusive problems and to generate appropriate need statements. These workshops help in developing skills in student to effectively and strategically use different design processes and methods to become creative problem solvers. Besides learning to visualize a given problem in its context, the students learn mechanical and ergonomic functions of a product also.

 

      
 
 

Visual Design Workshop

Workshops are conducted to understand various features and principles of visual elements. To understand the importance of a critical study of elements such as form, shape and the spatial relationship between motifs, colours, patterns and abstraction in order to direct the human eye has been the attempt of most such workshops. Different grids, compositions, viewpoints, point of reference and framing are taught to understand the visual language which is later applied in instruction manuals, advertising campaigns and GUI.

 

  
 
 

Interaction Design Workshop

Workshops are conducted to understand human interaction with different objects, its improvisation with new emerging technologies and medias. In the workshops, students are taught designing of various mobile applications and interactive interfaces for software applications and products.:

 

  
 
 

USID GURUKUL 2010 & 2011


USID Gurukul is being organised in partnership with Design Programme, IIT Kanpur. USID Gurukul is an inspiration taken from "Gurukul", a school concept from the ancient times in India. USID Gurukul brings together Shishyas selected from India as well as other countries representing the students and professionals from the disciplines of Design, Technology, Management and Social Sciences. These Shishyas attend Gurukul to learn under the mentorship of eminent academicians & researchers and experienced practitioners representing 15 + institutions including NID -Gandhinagar, NID-Bangalore, IIT-Kanpur, IIT-Guwahati, IIM-Bangalore, Sristhi School of Arts and Design Bangalore, Symbiosis Institute of Design, DA-IICT-Gandhinagar, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University, IM&T Gurgaon, Amity University.