New Delhi, Sept. 17 -- Education in design is becoming more about going beyond classrooms and geographical limitations, with Indian & UK students working remotely to produce cross-cultural designs that combine traditional art forms and new technologies and design techniques.
The one-year academic exchange program between Pearl Academy and four higher education institutes in the UK has led to Design Without Borders: Creative Futures Collective, which is an exhibition at the British Council in New Delhi.
The collaboration, sponsored by the British Council, has enabled the participation of students from Pearl Academy, Manchester Metropolitan University, Nottingham Trent University, London College of Contemporary Arts and Birmingham
City University.
They have used the COIL technique and collaborated with each other in different time zones without being physically present.
There are projects from a range of sources, including a khadi line that takes its inspiration from the Satyagraha movement and clothes made using recycled materials from cricket gear and finished off with Kantha embroidery. Students even converted a useless clamp into a lamp and reused mesh to design a 3D printed necklace.
In another project, there was collaboration between British artist Alexander Gorlizki and the fashion students at Pearl Academy on redefining the conventional Indian techniques of block and screen printing.
Addressing the inauguration ceremony, Aditi Srivastava, President, Pearl Academy, explained that the project enabled students to "co-create in a truly global classroom" and learn from different cultures.
The British Council exhibit at 17 KG Marg would be open till October 31 and would see panel discussions, master classes, and workshops for students and creative professionals.
Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from Millennium Post.