Prof. Pradyumna Vyas said contextual use of technology is design he also said humanising technology is design.
He gave an effective speech. He mentioned Newton’s third law and said we should take care while designing products because that might be used by terrorists or anti social purpose. He said that we should design a product with the context that eliminates the negative effects of the product on the society.
I realized the meaning of the design education. He also made me realized about duty of a responsible designer. As he always does, he emphasized on co-existence of culture traditions and modernization.
In rural India, still traditional lifestyle exists. Well, in urban India, we can see our culture and traditions being lost.
In villages, people have their own culture of living that includes traditional apparels, accessories, transport etc. They are designed by the folks living in that territory. They are designed within the context of availability of resources and requirements. He showed us the photo. In that, a woman is wearing beautiful traditional dress and accessories. The woman looks more beautiful than any other modern woman. That shows our own culture and traditions are really very rich.
In rural India, we can find that people’s livelihood lies in their hereditary occupations.
We studied before NID was structured knowledge. Here at NID, we have faculties and experts coming from urban industries and also from rural-traditional India so that we will get the knowledge of our original culture and traditions of design and also the modern aspects of the design. We will learn contextual design and we should design with the responsibility to lead the world towards progress. We should make sure that we do not harm our culture and traditions and lead them to evolution and existence.
