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Design is a powerful force that shapes culture and it is a professional activity that is beneficial for both community and business alike. This blog is for all those who are interested in exploring these wider manifestations of design as a critical human activity and would like to shape its application across all human cultural and economic activities.
Design for India
India needs design today across all 230 sectors of our economy. This is a space to explore some of the issues and perspectives that can contribute to a better understanding of these opportunities.
This blog is authored by Prof. M P Ranjan, Independent Academic, Ahmedabad. You can email him directly at – ranjanmp (at) gmail.com or mark your comments addressed to all readers at the bottom of each specific blog post. Also placed here are a link to my Page on Facebook
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1. Handmade in India pdf 337 mb
2. Bamboo & Cane Crafts of Northeast India pdf 35 mb
3. Posters on Sustainability Strategies pdf 16 mb
5. Interactive CD ROM: Beyond Grassroots 563 mb
6. Set of Design Papers by Prof M P Ranjan 94.6 mb
8. Look Back Look Forward interactive DVD 968 mb
9. Foundation Programme at NID - Interactive CD ROM zip (pdf) 104 mb
10. What Design Can Do - Keynote Amsterdam pdf 2.3 mb
11. Creativity & Design -Keynote Bangkok pdf 5.0 mb
12. Bamboo & Sustainability - Lecture SID CEPT pdf 5.0 mb
13. Culture as Interface-Keynote Atlanta pdf 6.0 mb
14. Design for Good Governance - Keynote Noida pdf 5.0 mb
15. Design Thinking - Keynote Mumbai pdf 6.2 mb
16. Katlamara Chalo Book pdf 47 mb
17. Gajanan Upadhyaya's Furniture - Keynote Bangalore pdf 5.2 MB
18. Bamboo Initiatives Catalogue pdf 17 mb
19. CEPT Lecture - Design & Sustainability pdf 10.5 mb
20. Katlamara Business Plan pdf 4 mb
21. Lessons from NID History - Show and Full Text zip pdf 12 MB
22. Creating the Unknowable - Show & Movies: Course Documentation of DCC at NID zip (pdf & movies) 42.2 MB
23. Indian Architect & Builder - Bamboo story pdf 1.2 mb
24. Strategies for an Innovative India pdf 3.7 mb
25. DeMystifying Design - Lecture slides pdf 2.4 mb
25. DeMystifying Design - Lecture slides pdf 2.4 mb
26. CEPT Earth Workshop DT Kit (pdf set) 1.2 mb zip
28. Thick end of the Wedge_CEE2005 pdf 120 kb
29. Design Thinking Models: A Primer_2013 pdf 120 kb
For more about our education process we invite you to see "Design Concepts and Concerns" blog here for live and contemporaneous documentation of courses in Design Thinking and Action offered by the author. Many of the papers and books listed here are available for download from the Acedemia.edu site at the authors pages here.
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