 So, what I am going to talk today is actually there are two things which we are doing right now that is one is how we can take the education to another level, okay. So, that is we have how new technology can be used for education especially in design. So, when we are looking at the design education, so design education right now is only in a graduate level and post graduate level. It is in a very limited place in schools. So our objective is actually to incorporate to bring in design to the schools. So, we are doing a project on how we can actually incorporate design in the main curriculum. So, when you are looking at when you are looking at design like you all know we are looking at functionality, you are looking at aesthetics, you are looking at the low-grade identity, its cultural, political, social impacts and ethical relationships. These are we are we are looking at all those things now when it though this larger domain of design which is design appellate, design educators, designers but we are this talk which I am going to give today, yeah today is about design education only. So, in design education we are looking at the present situation, we are looking at what is the need for improvement, what is happening today and what are we going to do. So, this is what we are looking at when you look at the present education system in schools where when we look at schools there is a major focus on the normal subject like physics, chemistry, maths all those things. Design you can see in a bits and pieces as you know an annual fair, there will be a fun fair, there will be a small event you know this is actually shot from a. So, when we look at it students who get a chance to do something hands on is actually getting only in this kind of a small exposure, but otherwise majority of the education happening is in the classroom and other subjects and whereas when we look at design education as a discipline when you look at undergraduate level or post graduate level there are design schools in India which is established from long before and now there are 250 new design schools which is actually giving design education in various levels ok. So, when you look at current scenario of design education in the school it is still and in the or education itself is still in the chalk and talk you know where somebody it is teacher centric, teacher will give you so it is basically it is an information based a teacher know something and teacher is giving it to something and maximum what you can see is some expression of through posters, some annual day something like that actually. What is it missing, the biggest missing is actually from the policy level what is happening from the policy level is there is no accreditation, there is no government job like if you study some other thing you get a government job. So, your parents when we are looking at design as a career opportunity what job my kid will get that is the biggest challenge for them. So, they do not get job as a clerk in LIC or they do not get job as a bank officer if you study design. So, why should we study? So, this is the biggest so that is and the schools which are there are some schools which has design education they are slightly numbers very less and they are more little bit elite schools you know where face is very high first of all. So, the kind of and they are very well aware about design education already. So, then there is no design advocate there is nobody promoting design you know except us who are designers we will say design is very good with design has lot of opportunity we have this thing our people are doing very great or also single day but at a national level who is doing it like say for example like just to give a strategy when a new IIT is starting for technology like IIT Goa I am talking about when it started they were given 2000 crore as a grant and whereas when a design school starting today government is giving 25 crores. So, this is the you know awareness in the ministry you know so and with that how do you expect you know like when and if you look at the number of fellowships and grants for research in science versus number of fellowships and grants in so far I do not know anything now in the government. They will look at that you know that is different and now I am coming to the idea which we are doing when we are looking at the learning where in the conventional schools when a teacher like me I am speaking to you tomorrow what will happen is actually in after two weeks what I said only 10% of this thing only you will remember okay so that is what study says but if you do things I am sure what you did in the workshop you will remember more than you will listen from this this talk today you know so and if you use an experiential learning if it is a virtual or real or from the real practical hands on you do the learning the the the the remembrance the the the ability to remember stays up to 90% so we want to focus on that aspect of it because now conventionally when you look at it it is a lecture base thing lecture talk talk demonstration with a map or very very static from that we want to move it into collaborative interactive inquiry based problem based that is something which what we do in the design schools so that is what we call the design way of teaching so that is something which we are planning to introduce in the school okay so we are working on it so then the information and communication technology in the field of education when we want to implement it is already there like if a government has policy every government school has given a computer every government has given a projector but the issue is they have the facility but the teachers are very scared they're thinking that this is very expensive the students will spoil it so they are not once in a year or if there's a guest they will open it you know my child studies in a school and they have I think once in a month or some they are made into a queue taken into the room they will just stand like this and then watch for like exactly like some you're going to some religious place but I don't know what is the effect so we want to work ahead of that educational problem and like 1960s and 70s there was TV based broadcasting programs now especially Dr. Espal was actually did a lot of series on science learning he made science very popular through that because that was the new technology of that time you know and then computer learning which I said that is what happening in all schools is there and computers now they are in the schools but it's like a lab you know I remember first-hand they have to actually learn computer not by doing they have a big theory course on computer what is a mouse what is a monitor so this and I fight because I am a teacher I'm at I'm teaching in one of the best institutes and my child is coming in getting a you know two mark three mark in computer why because he uses mouse every day but he can't rise right mouse is the device for blah blah blah they have to write that that thing you have to write so that so we want to introduce the new technology like we want to sleep one more step ahead you know like the XR technology where we find this today's generation the millenials are the right crop because that's what we call the digital natives they are born with this you know you are the Gen X you know you are me and you are the design immigrants I'm sorry what is a technology immigrants and they are the natives they are the digital natives and and so the biggest advantage with them is the technology comes natural with them actually so we want to tap on that so this question of like people ask me why you want to do this because are we prepared that this is going to spoil you know our tradition is very good but this was questioned throughout the history when printing birth process in invented people said oh my god calligraphers made a big halla when typewriter was invented they said there's a problem when the computer first computer came like I had a job in LIC in 1987 and that is the time the strike going on they said that this lot of job they brought in brought a computerization and there was a statewide strike against computers so now you today you think about an LIC without computer okay that is a font and they said made sure that no computer comes to the office okay so same thing happened so now when we are looking at technological pedagogical content knowledge we want to introduce teaching learning to through technology okay so that now you know that like the latest iPhone is going to be we are so we are right at the time where the new technology coming so we want to introduce our digital natives the technology because they are used to it actually okay so we want to introduce that that this is the relevant work where the observe is 90% you know where the the retention power goes much higher so where we want to look at the real environment the augmented reality augmented virtuality and virtual environment so this experiment is what we are going to do or we are doing actually we are already working with schools working with we adopted few schools to work this this will give the experience of learning by doing very complicated thing what we can it can do like if if you want to do do a heart surgery if you want to teach if you want to do how heart is functioning the kids can do it you know and then then they can experience it so then then the possibilities are in immense you can make virtual prototypes there is no material cost there is no tools required there is no huge infrastructure required in all the schools or all the places then so this is the immense possibility okay so this is something which we are doing so I will just talk to you one more project I'm doing right now as part of our work in this thing that is using the same technology for digital preservation in days a country which has huge heritage you know like every piece of brick in India is thousand year old no like you know everything we talk about and I am whenever like I had a friend who came from US and he was sitting next to me and he was talking to me you know my city just 200 year old building and I was standing in front of Sun Temple I took him to Sunday I said this is thousand year old so for me thousand year is normally you know like the I said my when I in New Zealand when I said heritage building 60 year old I said my family house is more than 150 year old you know I was living in that house so this is where and but our problem is we don't care because we have a problem of plenty we don't care for it actually like in fact these are some pictures and like say for example that's a nike temple nike sculpture which is 500 year old and while trying to preserve they broke the house next one is an epigraphy which is thousand year old which they wanted to make beautiful by painting it luckily somebody who sensibly saw it they stopped it otherwise this epigraphy which is not even decoded today will go and wonder this other thing is more beautiful actually this is actually the original stucco is inside this is painting because the new paint is not fixing to the wall people are chipping the old wall which is four or five hundred year old and putting nice gypsum plaster for his paint to make it look beautiful and this is the situation of the building which is falling down nobody and some are you know some belong to somebody so-called somebody is encroached in this building lot of other activities happens in the evening you know so bootleggers this fellow that fellow so they don't let you do anything so we so our what is the first requirement we want to preserve it for the future at least we want to document we want to know what so we are using laser scanning 3d complete digital copy we are making so what we do is we scan the entire building one is to one ratio in a very high resolution point cloud data we build we make up a pointed data and that point cloud data we are pasting extremely high resolution image so you can actually in a virtual you can recreate you know Taj Mahal here you know and then we can walk through it again you can feel it plus what happens is so this is some some pictures of the work in progress you can see and then what we do is just point cloud data is again it's a dot so we are actually rendering it with the appropriate software so we are actually multiple software part part part we are rendering it creating the real and then on the top of this we'll actually paste the thing so we are trying multiple methods from very costly method to very cheap methods we are trying and then we are adding value to it we are adding another experience to it actually so imagine you want to see it how it looked when it was built you can do it and also we are creating 360 animation which will walk inside so when you are there maybe like this is I'm we are working on high buck shit on high buck she will walk to you as an as a character and talk to you so that actually we're making that the feel of that new reality we actually call it new real how do we play this video walk through it you can even fly you can do whatever you want you know the impossible you can do like some areas which are not acceptable you can actually go all those things you can do okay plus you have this new new way of experiencing it through adding more characters how it will like if it disintegrates like this what will happen after some years you know you can even see that actually that then you'll be more aware of it actually so this anyway I'll explain so this this video actually shows you a way we took a very very quick render from the video out to show how all we can move and all those things so this is another project I'm doing actually this this is the biggest as the possibility you know so now this is the work plan for you actually what do we do now so the biggest of the challenge we are facing is how can we make it accessible to people like in the case of what I said in the schools the government schools the whole schools grand like maybe 10 years grand will be equal to one equipment today so they can't afford it actually now how can we make it affordable so that is your job actually no like you as you know experienced designers it's your job like or we will work together towards making it more accessible to people making it affordable to people and what are the barriers today what we are facing the the the teachers the digital immigrants like people like us or people like you are not capable of copying with this digital natives they are used to the youngsters are much better than us actually and the you and me the developing the opportunity cost they are actually making we are making a lot of money for being the first in the place so now that has to be very quickly out maybe mass production I don't know what we do it and we as Gen X you are the Gen X people are emotionally attached to gadgets I can't sell my old microwave oven you know which is spoiled already I'm keeping it you know my my grandfather's car still lying in the garage but this digital native my son they have no problem with the new technology they just throw it and they adopt when my iPhone 10 comes even if his iPhone 8 was bought just a month before they have no problem in throwing in that they are not emotionally attached and buying a new one so this is our generation gap you know Gen X to the millenials you know so that is what so then right now we have two three two PhD students and two M.D. students working on it as their research project and I thank the ender team of DIC to work with me in this yeah and do we have time for a question I think I have one I've just finished yes not as this government support I have a design innovation center which I applied separately to promote innovation in design so this is my proposal so government gives a ministry gives a grant so that is given to 20 institutes in India a grant of 20 10 crores each 20 Institute based on different proposals that you can use what you are so that is the present support from the government it is no no no this it has to be self-sacrificing you have to propose and then you have to raise money for sustaining this innovation center which I will do through incubation through this PhD people will contribute through patents like that I have to sustain so this is a one-time grant yes it's a lab out of that we are doing these two projects as the major this thing yeah this is my work in the lab for the lab we got the grant so with that money only I'm doing it otherwise even I can't afford these equipments it is we just started the school is very positive because everybody want to do it all the teachers want to do it but they all are telling the same problem actually you know how can we afford it actually so we are working like we are already working with four schools we are targeting to approach around 350 schools nearby and implement once the policy and I'm hoping that being you know IIT we can always influence the policy makers because I was also part of CBC and all before now so we want I want to change the policy I want to introduce from the government level itself so that is my next task and see the same student wants to experiment that through a VR possibility you know exploring the heart or whatever some other organ so is it now part of that life science curriculum or will it be a separate no no no it will be a part of the life science curriculum it will be part of the life science curriculum so the teacher has to you know comply yes that is what I said that is one of the biggest barriers right teachers are completely you know it calls for a different paradigm all the way I mean teachers yes that teacher training new curriculum development new pedagogical approach we are looking at a kind of a disruptive design where we want to completely demolish what is expecting happening today which is a requirement of the time because we are following this traditional teaching for the last I don't know whatever years that's a great step yeah yeah yeah I don't know whether I will succeed but it's okay thanks I tried I can be happy that I tried because a lot of other parameters are involved that way yeah like in field of architecture we have council of architecture and they have a code of education yes so is there any institute or a body working on any code of design for design part of that that is something called recently we have established something called a design national design policy which after the first design Institute started the NID 1960 and in 2014 13 14 we have made the national design policy so that national design policy actually today talks about that shows there is some interest from the government side actually that is why government is giving this design innovation centers and each innovation center by the way 20 innovation centers each of them have three spokes minimum so 20 into three 60 plus 80 innovation centers have been funded by government now so that is part of the it's one of the proposal from the policy yes there is no accreditation like your council of architecture or anything each institute accredited like IIT will IIT Senate will approve IIT's curriculum NID Senate will approve NID yeah that is fragmented yes and no because there is some kind of thing is required because now simple thing no like the first point I said if you want a job because majority of the people like poor people want a government job now if you studied in an ID or an IIT a design course you can't apply you can't apply for IAS for I'm not asking designer to become an IAS officer but if you want to write an IAS exam after BDS you can't do that so then it is depriving you know but whereas if I studied BSE physics I can write a IAS you know after studying physics so what is the difference between what is physics going to contribute in my administrative capabilities in you know as a collector equal can be done by a designer also no that point a council accreditation will help to make it like a be be our student can write IAS but a BDS cannot write IAS so those things like I'm looking at those kind of nitty gritties I'm looking at a human level you know we can a very fancy level we see we can say that everybody become an entrepreneur like all of you tomorrow maybe we'll become an entrepreneur so our only job is to become an entrepreneur so if at all you want to be employed you know only option is teaching so that is not a good thing now that you study social science like you study history or you side my engineering you can become a teacher so that is teaching is not a job of career opportunity teaching is something which you want to do as a passion you want to do okay I like to share so I want to be there so in any subject you learn you can be teacher but design is something which you want to pursue in your life the career and like that