This book showcases cutting-edge research contributions from the International Symposium on Future of Design Education (InFuSED23) – written by eminent researchers from across the world on the topic ‘Future of Design Education’. The world is witnessing phenomenal change in terms of digital connectivity, movement from villages to towns and to megacities, major demographic movement across socio-economic strata, the looming threat of climate change and unsustainable development, terrorism and regionalism, major geopolitical shifts in the world order, and others. The practice of design, the “interdisciplinary discipline” as described by Nigel Cross, will have to play a major role in addressing the consequences of these changes, which by their very nature are people-centric and interdisciplinary. Therefore, design education must play a central role in training young minds in their evolving contributions as generic, empathic problem solvers for the world. InFuSED23 is intended to bring together top design researchers, teachers and thought leaders from across the world to deliberate on the topic “the future of design education” in its multiple perspectives: the aspects of design in which to train designers and design researchers, the manner in which the training is to be imparted, the levels at which training must be carried out, and so on.
Professor Amaresh Chakrabarti is a Senior Professor and Chair, Department of Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He published 23 books, 310 articles, 14 patents, and co-authored DRM, a framework for design research. He is the Founding-Chair of ICoRD conferences, an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Designers, UK, and a recipient of: Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship for Cambridge University (India-UK), ORS Award, Lundgren Award, MIAA Commendation Award (UK), and TUM Ambassador Award, Germany. He is the Editor-in-Chief for AI-EDAM Journal (CUP).
Professor Vishal Singh is an Associate Professor at the Department of Design and Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, where he leads the IMPACT4IMPACT Lab. He researches design, computational, and systems thinking for diverse application domains. He is a co-founder of SpaCyPhy Tech Pvt Ltd., a technology-based start-up. He has previously worked in various academic roles in Finland and Australia. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney, a Master’s from IISc Bangalore, and a Bachelor’s from BIT Mesra.
Dr. Shakuntala Acharya is an architect and an Assistant Professor at the Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. During her doctoral study at Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, she was selected as design scholar for the IUSSTF Joint Center of Excellence for Sustainability and was the recipient of the JASSO Scholarship from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan. Her areas of interest are Design education and pedagogy; Creativity and design methodology, and Sustainability in smart built environment.
