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Esteemed industrial designer and academic, Dr. Parag K. Vyas, graced the event as the chief guest. With affiliations to Grau Bär Design, IDC School of Design, and National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad, Dr. Vyas has made notable contributions to industrial design, particularly in fine jewelry and manufacturing technology. Under the visionary leadership of Dr. Guruprasad Kuppu Rao, Professor & Dean, NMIMS School of Design, the event felicitated students for their achievements. The Deeksharambh Inauguration included the lighting of the lamp by the chief guest, a parent, an alumni, faculty and dean of the school, which was followed by Saraswati Vandana, and the rendition of the NMIMS Anthem. Distinguished speakers at the Inauguration Session included the Chief Guest, a parent, Our Alumni and the Dean.
Delivering his welcome address, Dr Guruprasad Kuppu Rao, said, ” You have made a wise decision to study at our School of Design, which has a young history of producing the finest design professionals in the industry. Our state-of-the-art facilities are designed to enhance your learning experience and provide you with the tools you need to succeed in the competitive world. We believe in a holistic approach to education and strive to provide you with the resources you need to succeed. As a student of School of Design, NMIMS, you will have access to a wide range of resources that include industry collaborations, internships, guest lectures, and workshops.”
The ceremony was meticulously designed to provide a comprehensive orientation for the students. Through interactive sessions, they had the opportunity to engage with faculty members, administrators, and peers. These sessions facilitated an understanding of the university’s rich heritage, core values, academic structure, and extracurricular offerings.
In his keynote address Dr. Parag Vyas, drawing upon his vast experience and expertise, shared valuable insights and motivated the students.
He said ,”I started working on tools and the engineering part of the design at the age of 12. My uncle had a car repair shop, and my journey began there. I am 56 now, but still, to keep myself sharp and up to date by maintaining workshop practices. There is no other profession that is more rewarding, I can assure you that. I always believe in the power of humanizing technology and the transformative nature of art. Each and every delicate touch presents us with an opportunity to create something truly remarkable. “
The Deeksharambh, Grand Annual marked the commencement of a new journey for students in the field of Design. It played a pivotal role in introducing students to their respective fields and providing them with a comprehensive understanding of their upcoming years of study to develop a strong foundation even before embarking on their educational journey.
One of the alumni shared her journey at NMIMS SOD,“ This school has a reputation in the industry for being the most hardworking and innovative. There comes a point when people start giving up, but this college pushes so many ideas until you reach your absolute best, and then you do something beyond your best. You realize you didn’t even know you had that potential. You need to see what you can do differently from the rest of your colleagues.”
The event was concluded with National Anthem after vote of thanks by Faculty Dr Arundhati Thakurta. The Program was well managed by staff and students who did on the on stage and off stage arrangements and contributed to the overall success of the program.
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]]>SVKM’s NMIMS School of Design, the leading institute for design education, ranked fifth in Maharashtra and 23rd at all India levels by Careers 360, has started accepting applications for its pioneering B.Des. (Humanising Technology) program at its Mumbai campus.
The AICTE-approved 4-years undergraduate program offers a transdisciplinary approach to design education that brings together technology, science, and business. The interactive and experiential pedagogy used by experienced faculty and industry professional allows the student to discover their interest and hone their skills. As a future faced School of Design, it also offers a comprehensive set of facilities that include state-of-the-art Wi-Fi studios, workshops, and well-equipped labs such as Tinkering lab, Rapid Prototyping lab, XR (extended reality) lab, and a Usability lab as well for a hands-on tinkering learning experience. The long duration industry internships enable professionalising practice of their learnings.
By combining Human centered design with emergent technology and cognitive and behavioural science to create business value, this design program offers multiple career opportunities for students. Students also secured paid internships in various companies and NGOs demonstrating their social consciousness. These opportunities have translated in the school announcing 100% placements record for their first batch. Top recruiters and internships included Deloitte, Walmart Global, LearningMate Solutions Pvt. Ltd. The Minimalist, Axis bankFreecharge, YUJ Designs, Ernst & Young LLP, HFI Parallax Labs, among others.
The school differentiates itself with:
- The unique , future ready design program in Humanising technology
- Highly qualified full-time faculty
- Small student cohort ensuring intense learning engagement.
- Students regularly winning various international and national awards
- 100% placements in varied roles
- State of Art facilities in studios and labs
Elaborating on the program, Prof. Manisha Phadke, Director, NMIMS School of Design, said, “Today, Design is blending with engineering enabled by cognitive and behavioural sciences, creating a union of design, engineering, and business. With every progressive and competitive organization today, leveraging technology to improve their customer experience and engagement, there is no better time than today, for designers to humanise technology for seamless consumption. Boundaries have blurred, as designers increasingly need to work with several experts to realise a project. Therefore, design education needs to develop generalist design skills bolstered by domain-specific knowledge. Undergraduate programs should enable a path for individual discovery rather than conforming to streams that along the way may not interest them. “
Admission process:
A candidate interested in pursuing this 4-year program must have passed/appeared for the 10+2 or equivalent exam in any stream. Eligible candidates can then register here and appear for the Design Aptitude Test (NMIMS-DAT) which includes uploading portfolio, studio test and a personal interview.
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]]>Mumbai, 11th February ‘21: SVKM’s NMIMS School of Design, the leading institute for design education, invites applications for its pioneering B.Des. (Humanising Technology) programme at its Mumbai campus. The AICTE-approved 4-years undergraduate program offers a transdisciplinary approach to design education that brings together technology, science, and business. The interactive pedagogy combines workshops by ace professionals with mentored projects at state-of-the-art studios and labs. The program is designed to groom professionals who can create value by humanising technology in various emerging fields. By combining emergent technology with cognitive and behavioural science to create business value, this design program offers a multitude of career opportunities for students. Careers avenues include that of a design researcher, interaction designer, Experience Designer for emerging technology, Data Visualizer, UX & UI Designer and many more from being an essential component of every product and service, design has emerged as a critical component in every field. Design professionals are in high demand across various industries, including electronics, banking, healthcare, education, IT, media, hospitality, and consumer durables.
Speaking on the merits of the program, Dr. Ramesh Bhat, Vice Chancellor, SVKM’s NMIMS said, “The School of Design at NMIMS was conceptualized as a centre for nurturing design professionals who can conceptualize and implement life-enhancing solutions in an increasingly digitised world. The B. Des. in Humanising Technology is a pioneering program that combines technology and design expertise with a deeply humanistic perspective and practical business-oriented skills. This transdisciplinary education equips students with a multi-stream skillset that is critical in any field today.”
As a future faced School of Design, it offers a comprehensive set of facilities that include state-of-the-art WiFi studios, workshops and well-equipped labs such as Tinkering lab, Rapid Prototyping lab, XR (extended reality) lab, and a Usability lab as well. These facilities are designed to provide students with an experiential learning experience
Elaborating on the program, Prof. Manisha Phadke, Director, NMIMS School of Design said, “The biggest challenge in design today is creating solutions that transverse from physical to digital and consider the opportunity an emerging technology offers, yet are user-centric while remaining business-oriented. B.Des. (Humanising Technology) provides students with a transdisciplinary design-centric approach with a cognitive, behavioural and sociological perspective, enabling them to visualise products and services that are usable and scalable. The new age education is substantiated with our students consistently winning awards and accolades at some of the most highly regarded national and international design competitions.”
Humanising Technology is the act of design to make technology accessible, usable and delightful to the users. The curriculum focuses on four main streams, design, technology, science, and business. While the first two years focus on developing the students’ multidisciplinary skillset, year three is dedicated to the project-centric application and the practice of their learning. The final year is designed to enhance their professionalism and business acumen with internships, industry-relevant Capstone projects, and dissertations.
Eligibility: The candidate must have passed 10+2 or equivalent examination including International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB certificate / & D.P. awarded candidates are eligible only if they have cleared their IB exam with a total of 24 credits compulsory having passed 3 HL & 3 SL mandatorily in any stream from a recognised Board and should have obtained a minimum of 60% aggregate marks).
Admission process: Admission to the B.Des. (Humanising Technology) is through NMIMS – Design Aptitude Test (NMIMS-DAT). Under NMIMS-DAT, candidates must first register at https://nmims.secure.force.com//SOD_BAG_Login after which they will be asked to upload their portfolio. This will be followed by an online studio test, online personal interview and portfolio review.
For details on the programs, admission, eligibility, selection process and other information, visit https://design.nmims.edu
Accreditations: NMIMS has NAAC accreditation with Grade A+ (3.59 CGPA), Mumbai Campus and is recognized as Category-I University by MHRD/UGC Grant of Graded Autonomy Regulation, 2018. B.Des. (Humanising Technology) program is AICTE-approved.
About NMIMS – DAT:
Launched this year, NMIMS – Design Aptitude Test or NMIMS-DAT is carefully designed to evaluate the candidate’s aptitude and potential for design. The process involves three main steps, an online studio test, an online personal interview, and a portfolio review. The 3-step process allows candidates to showcase their talent and ideas during the selection process.
About SVKM’ NMIMS School of Design:
SVKM’ NMIMS Deemed to be University, School of Design offers a holistic multidisciplinary education in design. With ultra-modern labs and studios, the school offers a pioneering program in the application of technology and design with B.Des. (Humanising Technology). Backed by a talented faculty, the school offers the most well-rounded education on all aspects of design. For more information, visit https://design.nmims.edu
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]]>Our flagship offering – B. Des. in Humanising Technology, an AICTE approved, 4-year undergraduate program, resolves the problem faced by young students to make a choice between their interest in art, science and technology by offering a seamless amalgam of the these streams. The program brings new focus on this aspect of ‘multidisciplinary’—the byword in the field of design. It enables crafting product/service experiences that are delighting wherein the technology is consumable and unseen, thus ‘humanised.’
Our students are truly contributing towards the vision and mission of the school by their innovative approaches to immersive and holistic design. Testimony to that are the recent laurels our students have brought to the school needs special mention. The School of Design have achieved more than 11 accolades in reputed international and national level competitions in recent times
The winning spree began with a win in the ADI International Students Design Competition- Battle of Projects PDF Pune bagging three awards in different categories by our third-year students, first prize in Packaging Design by Hitiksha Kanani, first prize in Industrial product design by Arushi Shukla, Shweta Mandwale and Damiya Jaswani And Special Mention in Mobility Design by Rahil Parmar and Rajarshi Dasgupta.
Furthermore, a team of third year students: Arushi Shukla, Shweta Mandwale and Damiya Jaswani of our B. Des. Humanising Technology program ranked First Runner’s Up and the Community Choice award at the international Core77 Design Awards 2020 under the Social Impact Category for their project, “Magnetic tiles/cement to aid the visually impaired”.
Our 2nd year students emerged victorious from a pool of over 2000 entries from 52 countries. D’source International Corona Design Challenge 2020 win two awards under Game Design category by Akshata Chitnis, Khushali Parekh, Nidhi Kastiya and Nikita Bhatnagar and 1 award under Communication Design category “Zyaada Hero Mat Ban” a campaign designed by Preshita Deshmukh.
A contingent of second year students Aarushi Mehra, Hetavi Shah, Palak Goyal, Samiksha Sachdeva was chosen as one of the Top 30 finalists from over 250+ entries in the International UMO Design Social Innovation Challenge 2020.
Students of the B. Des. Humanising Technology program performed exceptionally well in the national competitions as well. Second-year students Anuya Desai and Preshita Deshmukh emerged as the winning team at QED 2020, a competition held by Anant National University. Their sustainable fashion project titled, “Circular Fashion” urged consumers to use fashion and clothing for longer, instead of purchasing new clothing constantly. The project was chosen from 100+ entries from across India through three tough rounds of elimination. At the Connecting Dreams Foundation Social Impact Challenge, Team Fireflies from the School of Design became one of the Top 3 winners of the Social Impact Challenge (SIC) in the Dream awards 2020 event. Second year students Ameya Sawant, Shashank Venkatraman, Aaarushi Mehra and third year students Rajarshi Dasgupta and Rahil Parmar participated as a team. The team competed with 15 teams across 10+ renowned colleges in Mumbai to bring a change in the social enterprise industry of Maharashtra.
NMIMS School of Design takes immense pride in the accolades and achievements that students have earned during this pandemic period and taking giant strides towards the attainment of its vision. Even in these unprecedented times, students are utilizing their time effectively to create, innovate and contribute to society relayed Prof Manisha Phadke, founding director of the school. . They are the true brand ambassadors of the School and aptly cherishing the ethos of the School “CHALLENGE- EVOLVE- IMPACT”. Fueled on by the competence, caliber and accomplishments of the students and faculty, School of Design takes a bold step towards a better future.
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]]>SVKM’s NMIMS is proud to share the achievement of School of Design’s 2nd year students of B.Des. (Humanising Technology) on winning the D’source International Corona Design Challenge under the Game Design category.
Ms. Khushali Parekh, Ms. Nidhi Kastiya, Ms. Nikita Bhatnagar and Ms. Akshata Chitnis are the winners in the Game design category of the D’source International Corona Design Challenge.
The competition was organized by IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay, D’source, and DesignIndia.net and supported by Cumulus, International Council of Design (ico-D), World Design Organisation (WDO), Banaras Hindu University and IIT Guwahati.
Our student’s entries were selected from a pool of 1254 entries with over 2000 participants from 52 countries. The jury panel consisted of around 40 designers, educators, design thinkers and practitioners from different countries.
Ms. Khushali Parekh, Ms. Nidhi Kastiya, Ms. Nikita Bhatnagar (Group entry) has won ‘Wipe out’ competition and Ms. Akshata Chitnis (Individual entry) has won ‘Go Corona go’ competition.
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