The Design Trends & Futures discipline at NID Ahmedabad prepares designers to anticipate, interpret, and actively shape emerging possibilities in a rapidly shifting global landscape. Moving beyond immediate user needs, the programme investigates what “could, should, or might” be by translating complex signals into tangible futuristic scenarios and experiences. Rooted in future thinking and trend research, students explore systems, strategy, augmented realities, speculative practice, and experience design. The programme aims to serve multi-sectoral, diverse industries. It will involve trend research and future foresight in sectors such as social, cultural, economic, technological, political, environmental, and Legal. Students from multidisciplinary educational backgrounds who aim to influence the future are well-suited to this interdisciplinary programme focused on design trends and the future of diverse, multi-sectoral industries.
The core Learning Approach is studio-led, research-driven, and experimental. Students combine rigorous futures inquiry with hands-on practice, moving from research and signal analysis to scenario construction and speculative prototyping. Throughout this process, the curriculum emphasises ethics, equity, and responsibility, ensuring graduates critically evaluate the broader consequences of their interventions. The Graduates will be equipped with career pathways and opportunities for strategic leadership and creative foresight across diverse sectors, including design consultancies, tech firms, policy units, research labs, and cultural institutions. Emerging roles include Strategic Foresight Lead, Futures Researcher, Trend Analyst, Innovation Strategist, Speculative Designer, Systems Innovation Specialist, Experience Strategist, and Entrepreneurs
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Gandhinagar Campus
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Ahmedbad Campus | 12 Oct 19 - 12 Jan 19
The identity of this book edited by the late I.S. Mathur is established by its leitmotif—training the teachers of design or educating the design educators. This book is divided into three major sections—‘Retrospection’, ‘Introspection’, and ‘Perception’. A mélange of thoughts, experiences, and anecdotes expressed by alumni, faculty both former and present, and artists—this book touches upon poignant issues which can influence the spread of design education across design schools/institutions in India.
The identity of this book edited by the late I.S. Mathur is established by its leitmotif—training the teachers of design or educating the design educators. This book is divided into three major sections—‘Retrospection’, ‘Introspection’, and ‘Perception’. A mélange of thoughts, experiences, and anecdotes expressed by alumni, faculty both former and present, and artists—this book touches upon poignant issues which can influence the spread of design education across design schools/institutions in India.