Information Arts and Information Design Practices - PGDP Bridge

Information shapes how we live, connect, and make decisions. From social media to artificial intelligence, from ecological challenges to cultural change, our personal and collective lives are increasingly mediated by complex information systems. The one-year Postgraduate Diploma Program in Information Arts and Information Design Practices (IAIDP) at Srishti Manipal Institute is a bridge platform between UG and PG curricula, introducing the field to aspiring art and design practitioners. On one hand, with information arts, you will explore the role of art in the current information-driven age by breaking down disciplinary boundaries and initiating conversations on artistic practices. On the other hand, with information design, you will engage in the practice of presenting information effectively and meaningfully by combining principles of design and communication. As part of the IAIDP course, you will be introduced to storytelling, illustration, board games, systems design, data visualisation and will be prepared for entering the world of information art and information design.

The course equips artists and designers to live, think critically, and create in this age of information. Bridging art, sciences, technology, and design, the course trains reflective practitioners who not only navigate information but also interpret, question, and reshape it through storytelling.IAIDP is “media agnostic” (i.e. independent of any specific medium), which integrates social design, ecology, design research and data science to equip students with the ability to transform raw data into meaningful, accessible, and visually rich narratives. Training spans diverse media—drawing, painting, photography, film, creative writing, graphic design, multimodal design, interaction design, computer graphics, and more—while also emphasising practice-based and practice-led research along with ethical ways of working closely with communities.IAIDP is a space for students to master storytelling, visual aesthetics, and explore cognition, emotion, and experience through art and design. They create interactive, data-driven outputs that enable insight, support decision-making, and create new ways of understanding and engaging with our rapidly changing, information-driven world.