Information Arts and Information Design Practices – PGDP Bridge

Today, art and design leadership is critical around the world to create action around social, cultural, political, and environmental issues. From poverty, inequality, and gender issues to climate change, artists and designers hold a powerful tool: their ability to tell stories through varied media to change the course of life around them, to create meaningful action, to enable change, to empower people, to be the voice for those who have none. 

The Information Arts and Information Design Practices (IAIDP) program looks at information in all its varied forms. It looks at the processes by which information is gathered and gleaned, and it pays great attention to understanding who this information is intended for. It lays great emphasis on developing, through a design or artistic process, the appropriate media for the dissemination and delivery of this information. 

We nurture reflective practitioners who enquire into and interpret the world through storytelling. Using tools that record change, be it memories, cultures, personal narratives or vast amounts of data, students are encouraged to explore newer and imaginative ways to construct and craft knowledge, tell stories and responsibly create communication.

 

While the design of communication is what we do at IAIDP, what remains at the crux of our work is social and environmental design with a key focus on reflective self-inquiry. The program aspires to make work that creates and generates momentum for social change in some way. Students, through the course of their study, explore diverse media ranging from drawing, painting, photography, film, creative writing, graphic design, multimodal design, storytelling, computer graphics, interaction design and other art and design practices. 

Close attention is paid to research, art and design processes and methods, and ethical ways of working closely with communities while collaborating with them. 

Today, social design is integral to both the public and private sectors. MNC’s. Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, as well as NGOs, are starting intriguing and diverse project spaces that span contexts across the world. This course invites young people seeking to make a difference in the world with their work. 

The one-year Postgraduate Diploma Program in Information Arts and Information Design Practices at the Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology introduces the field to aspiring practitioners who have not previously studied communication design, visual art or other art forms or are looking for a finishing year to fine-tune their work. 

After completion, graduates of the program will be able to pursue advanced postgraduate degrees in Information Arts and Information Design Practices, Earth Education and Communication or related fields.

 

The Bridge program has been crafted for students to develop their creative skills at a foundational level. 

• The program encourages the understanding of art and design practice through sensitive self-inquiry and sadhana. 
• The process helps students reflect on themselves and their relationship with the world, unfolding the heart in their practice 
• Acquire proficiency in using tools of thinking, visualisation, inquiry and research. 

• To play, explore and experiment with ideas, material, media, forms and techniques and language to create 
• To take initiative and build skill through repetition, reflection and iteration 
• To leverage creative process of sketching, modelling, wire framing etc. as a way of expression, representation or problem solving 
• To explore, experiment and reflect with art and design tools to engage with people and place and gather, organize, seek patterns in data and information 
• To use multiple lenses to extract, interpret and engage with cultural, historical and socio-economic information, contexts and theories 
• To take critical feedback for reflection and action 
• To experiment, choose context-sensitive media and create meaningful work   
• To emerge self-identity through ethical dilemmas, limitations and challenges  
• To strategically intervene and innovate towards change communication  
• To emerge practice with reflections on interdependence and symbiosis