'Research Methods as Inspirations for Design' is a one day seminar focusing on various methods for design research. The seminar is scheduled at IDC, IITBombay, on the occasion of IITB's Golden Jubilee celebrations.

Held as a commemorative event, the day-long presentations and discussions have been marked out as a tribute to the role played by research in enriching pedagogy and society with specific regard to the domain of design.

The idea is to build kinship with other domains by addressing the following issues:

1)   How can we shape our research methods for design, in inspiration from research methods in related fields?

2)   What might be some of the methods of validation for design research?

3)   How to relate to research methods from the speakers own discipline, and share experiences through examples, such as their own work, their students' works, etc.

The key speakers have been chosen to present thoughts from disciplines that are considered fundamental to the evolution of design thoughts and strategy.The chosen disciplines for the seminar are design, architecture, aesthetics, and the sciences.The seminar will also showcase some of the research work done by the current PhD students of the Industrial Design Centre, IIT Bombay.

Venue:

IDC Auditorium

2nd floor, IDC

IIT Bombay

Powai, Mumbai-400076

More details at

http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/~seminar/

If you'ld like to participate, please register your name for the seminar through the website.

(Registration fees for the seminar is only Rs 200. You could make the payment on the day of the seminar at the venue.)

  Directions to the venue:

http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/about/directions.htm