"If you don't make things for your own surprise, you become like a baker, everyday

making the same round bread to sell." – This statement of design visionary Dashrath

Patel inspires us every day to do something 'different'.

This meet is a tribute to the design educator and thinker, Padmabhusan Dashrath Patel whose

contribution in Indian design education is immense, starting right from founding and

directing National Institute of Design (NID) as well as practicing design education for

imparting grass route knowledge.

Inklink , in collaboration with ‘The Spaces’ is organising the first ever ‘ROUNDTABLE ON

DESIGN EDUCATION & IT’S CONTEMPORARY IMPLICATION’ among Gen next in

Chennai .

Who’s Dashrath Bhai? How many Gen Next young design students know him and his

contributions? How many of us really bother about the legacy he has left for us to continue?

Do we impart what is expected as design education? Where are we heading? What are the

best practices in design education to incorporate grass-root knowledge? How design

education of future should be? Why the Gen Next is frustrated with the way design is

perceived and taught at design schools? How to make design more interactive?

A varied group of design student, designers, design enthusiasts from across the country and

specializations will be present to participate in the Q & A session about design education.

They will share their feelings, experiences and expectations. The dignitaries will share their

knowledge, expertise in design, art and education.

The Hon’ble speakers in this roundtable, are stalwarts of Design Education and Design

practices across India.

The itinerary is as mentioned below:

The dignitaries:

Anchor:

About InkLink :

InkLink Collective Unschool is the first ever Social Network based Not For Profit edu-fun-

creative knowledge bartering movement, to impart creative education across the Globe in

various creative fields viz. art, fashion, design , media, architecture etc as well as to recharge

the right brain with Unschooling approach . InkLink believes the expression of aesthetics is

not domain specific (art, music, fashion, design, architecture etc.); it’s just the inclination of

being creative that drives individuals to think out of the box. The domains are only the

medium of communication which an individual pursues to endeavour.

At ICU, creative sessions (step by step how to’s) are being uploaded for education in such a

way so that everyone, irrespective of art/creative background, can be benefitted. Apart from

‘sessions’, ICU provides various on trend design ‘Inspirations’ and ‘Gallery’ to showcase

creative works of young minds. (www.facebook.com/inklinkcollectiveunschool

) After hitting 23,000 visitors per week in Facebook (11 countries, 21 cities and

7 moderators), Inklink Collective Unschool aka ICU achieved another milestone as ICU have

come offline for person to person interaction in the mode of offering creative brainstorming

workshops “ InkLink Meet”. InkLink’s first free creative workshop, which took place in

Chennai on 12th August at ‘Chandralekha’s Spaces’, stirred the creative bartering movement

to an altitude that print media(The New Indian Express) has marked this unschool movement

as “Next CampusTrend’. The workshop theme was “Inspiration: the course behind concepts”.

The main aim was to demystify ‘Inspiration’ to ideate concepts through Hand’s-on edu-fun

workshop and various cross domain speaker sessions. The second workshop was organized

last month on 'emotions and exxxpressions' with a hands-on session caricatures and emotic

drawings.

ICU is now arranging ‘InkLink Round Table’ to discuss various topics in design, art and

music. The round tables will be conducted regularly to brain storm, express and find direction

for various issues and concerns in cross domain knowledge bartering.

(logo of InkLink Round Table)

Read more about InkLink here : http://rubypseudochatchat.blogspot.in/2012/07/inklink-

collective-unschool.html

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/facebook-the-newest-cyber-learning-platform/225679-60-

120.html

InkLink meet’s page can be seen here : http://www.facebook.com/ICUdaclanInkLinkMeet

Some photos of InkLink workshops :

For any details, please feel free to call : +91 9176655090 (Kaustav)