SMI offers a unique practice-based approach that blends design thinking, problem-solving, project-oriented, and place-based learning with new digital technologies. Students of Srishti collaborate and intern with a large variety of industries during their education, with art and design contexts in India and around the globe, with international companies, and also within urban and rural localities to understand one’s role in improving the social conditions of life. With a faculty of distinguished professionals and academicians, an experimental curriculum, and an emphasis on critical thinking, Srishti celebrates “the chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star” (Friedrich Nietzsche).