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For design schools

Design schools already understand craft. The question is what else.

We are not arriving to fix a broken system. We are arriving to extend one. A product designer who has worked seriously with sound understands time-based experience in a way visual or material practice alone cannot reach. A communication designer who has practised theatre understands how presence and timing shape meaning. An interaction designer who has studied generative arts has a fundamentally different relationship to code as creative material. These are structural connections, not enrichment.

Courses designed for design schools

Sonic Practice

Sound design · full semester or 1-month module

Studio course in sound as a design material. Field recording, spatial audio, psychoacoustics, designed soundscapes. Final work: a sound piece for a specific designed environment, whether retail, interface, exhibition or public space.

Sound as material · Acoustic space · Sonic branding · Spatial composition

Code, Chance and Form

Generative arts · full semester

At the intersection of code, visual form, sound and chance. Students develop an iterative body of work: not deliverables but experiments, presented with critical statements.

p5.js · Max/MSP · Physical computing · Procedural thinking

The Body in Space

Performance and spatial · 1-month module

Physical theatre and site-specific performance used to understand how bodies move through, read and inhabit designed spaces. Spatial intelligence that goes past ergonomics into lived experience.

Embodied space · Human factors · Site-specific design · Temporal experience

New Media: Practice and Theory

New media · 1-month or full semester

Studio-seminar hybrid. Critical theory paired with hands-on practice in video, interactive media and data visualisation. Practice as an argument.

Manovich and Hayles · Indian digital culture scholars · Digital production · Documentation

Puppetry, Animation and the Object

Object and material practice · 1-week or 1-month

How designed objects become performers and how material things carry narrative. Directly relevant for product, character and narrative designers.

Object as narrative · Material intelligence · Animation thinking · Craft and concept

IP, Authorship and the Creative Economy

Law and practice · 1 week

Copyright, moral rights, licensing, AI and authorship from the practitioner’s perspective rather than as compliance. Strategic frameworks for designers working in an economy increasingly shaped by intellectual property.

IP for designers · Creative economy · AI and authorship · Licensing strategy

Students standing around a table of open process books and laptops during a group review — **Sketchbooks on the table** Reading each other’s process books. A written and drawn record runs through every course.

A group standing along a studio wall of small pinned drawings and mounted wooden objects — **Along the studio wall** Small works and built objects mounted for review, argued for and revised.

The same long studio table seen from the other end, students sorting and cutting material — **Material session** Sorting, cutting and testing by hand before anything gets digitised.

A blacked-out studio with a large projected editing interface, a laptop on a stool and a cast head placed in the beam — **Projection test** One laptop, one projector, and a cast head placed in the beam to see how the image sits on it.

Engagement formats

Entry intensive

A one-week studio module of about 45 hours during a studio week or inter-semester break. Low commitment, high signal: both sides learn whether a deeper partnership makes sense.

Core module

A one-month embedded programme at three to six hours a day. Full curriculum, facilitation, materials and assessment. The most common starting point for a new design school partnership.

Full semester

Faculty embedded across a semester teaching one interdisciplinary studio course or a sequence of related modules. Credit-bearing, co-taught with your faculty if you want it.

The next step is a thirty-minute call.

Which cohort, which semester, how much studio time you can protect, and what you want them to have made by the end of it. We come back with a course outline written for your credit structure.

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Kirti Sharma, Founding and Managing Partner, and Executive Director
+91 73887 28268

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