29. Reinventing Design Education for Twenty-First Century

Design is everywhere and an integral part of our lives. It is a passion for our ‘feel-good factor’ adding excellence and efficiency in our activities. Increasing complexity has made design education more challenging. In the process of development, design extended into various disciplines like architecture, planning, fashion, textiles, graphics, visual communications, fine arts, interiors, multimedia, and jewelry. All these design disciplines have design principles common in them, but attributes change as per the discipline. These disciplines mark their presence independently and have been consistently synergizing each other to create a newer vision. There has been a need for reinventing design education. An interdisciplinary approach in design is vital for excellence and furtherance of know-how in allied fields. To bridge the distance between the disciplines, we have been developing a design education model at Manipal University Jaipur (MUJ). The paper will evaluate the model of design education and give recommendations.