Dear Uday:
I'm delighted and appreciative of your emphatic clarification about the DwI
conference as not being "another promotional event". While design must continue
to advance its case with Indian and global industry, there is an urgent need for
visioning and housekeeping within the discipline, which is something you're
setting out to do, and which I believe is urgently required.
From your comments, I gather that you view design as located in the theory and
practice of "experience" (which would be the integration of "cultural",
"psychological" and "social") - would I be right in thinking so? Further, you
view design as not an elite or exclusivist activity, but a democratic activity
that involves every human being co-creating our (shared) material world - I read
this as a political proposition - am I making the right surmise again? That
would be immensely interesting, because it could give us a host of theoretical,
philosophical, methodological and business considerations to debate, and it
echoes my own pedagogical thinking and personal politics. Moreover such a debate
would be extremely valuable to my current research as well.
I am now very keen to follow the progress of the conference and participate in
it. Please do keep me posted.
Arvind
NID PD 1981-88
Faculty, Srishti, Bangalore

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