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Festival of Innovation by IIT-Hyderabad
The Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H), participated in the 3rd Festival of Innovation (FOIN) 2017 at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday.
Hyderabad: The Indian Institute of Technology-Hyderabad (IIT-H), participated in the 3rd Festival of Innovation (FOIN) 2017 at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday.
The Design Innovation Centre (DIC) of IIT Hyderabad set up under the National Initiative for Design Innovation by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) took part in the festival and showcased various projects undertaken by the Design Department of the institute.
The Festival of Innovation aims to recognise, foster & reward young grassroots innovators and create a vibrant ecosystem which will enable them to thrive. It stresses on the need to learn, share experiences in design & development which will help in delivering inclusive innovations for the common good.
The Design Innovation Centre (DIC), a part of the Department of Design at IIT Hyderabad has been working towards the infrastructure of the ecosystem, in which designers and engineers in academia interact with real world problems and stakeholders to give shape to creative entrepreneurial co-operation and collaboration.
At the Festival of Innovation, the institute presented their innovation and work across various work areas like design for education, preservation of culture through animation, digital preservation of monuments.
The design in education aims to introduce design subjects in schools as part of the pedagogy and include teaching of theory and application in the design of products, services and environments.
Design education is learning how to apply practical methods, prior knowledge, and natural talent to solve new problems. It is also referred to as creative education.
Speaking about the projects, Prof Deepak John Mathew, Associate Professor, IIT Hyderabad said “The focus of design innovation center at IIT Hyderabad is to incorporate the cutting edge technology in design innovation.
We are looking at a paradigm shift in design education by starting it at the school level so that we can foster the talents of design from the young age itself. And the digital preservation project will take the heritage preservation n to a new experiential level”.
