
Postcards from Asia: Bombay: Industrial Design Centre at ITT

In Mumbai I have visited the Industrial Design Centre (IDC) – a postgraduate design college which is part of the Indian Institute of Technology . In India’s emerging socio-economic-cultural scene, the IDC addresses problems at the grass root level, aiming to solve them with design as a tool, emphasizing on addressing the unmet design and communication needs of the community. The designer in a global economy requires competence to deal with a broad range of challenges thrown up by socio-economic and cultural diversities. This…










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