Sakshita’s work with calligraphy and text as a mode for expressing information in subtle and diverse ways in her final capstone project
2-YEAR PG Professional Program
Information Arts and Information Design Practices
Vision
Information Arts reflects the role of art in the current information-driven age by breaking down disciplinary boundaries and initiating conversations about the impact of information on society. Information design, on the other hand, is about understanding and analysing information to craft meaningful experiences through and with design. At Srishti Manipal Institute, the Information Arts and Information Design Practices (IAIDP) program blends art and design, focusing on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to challenge, reposition, and reframe information. At its core, the program offers new storytelling approaches and pushes our imagination to create narratives through personal, cultural, technological, contextual, and creative lenses.
The IAIDP program equips students with the skills to navigate the rapidly evolving Information Age. The program emphasises interpreting, organizing, and visually representing complex data in a way that transforms information into clear, engaging, and impactful narratives. Creative practitioners are trained to see themselves as information artists and designers who can develop new gestalts of perceiving, understanding, and communicating information. The program fosters creative leadership and vision in information art and design, encouraging students to translate their unique perspectives into outputs that address pressing social, ecological, technological, and cultural needs.
IAIDP emphasizes deep engagement with society, the environment, and oneself, viewing art, design, and information as a visionary and relationship-building process. It encourages immersive experiences, creative inquiries, self-reflection, leadership, environmental stewardship, and worldmaking, positioning itself as an inquiry-based program.
Our inquiries are located in the following questions.
- How can Art, Design, and Technology be leveraged to craft compelling information, inspire actionable insights, and drive meaningful change?
- How does one bridge traditional cultural practices and contemporary art and design to develop alternative ways of interpreting and communicating information in both spheres?
- Where can arts and sciences converge, particularly through integrating information to foster innovative approaches to research?
- How does one train to be a reflective storyteller who uses diverse information to uncover deeper meanings?
- How can responsible, equitable, ethical, and impactful information design practice evolve along with the ever-changing landscape of information technology?
These questions guide our engagement and creation within this program. The course aims to dissolve binarised, discipline-based views of information, engaging with real-life, nuanced stories to foster new discourses.
LEVEL
Postgraduate Degree
AWARD
Masters of Design (M.Des)
DURATION
2 Years / Full-time
Learning Approach
Learning in at the postgraduate level is driven by published lines of inquiries that is enacted through studio-based learning, workshops, theoretical reflections and field work. This approach cultivates a creative practice through engagement in diverse contexts, collaborative and participatory approaches leading to knowledge development.
Program learning approaches includes:
- Participation in integrated multidisciplinary learning
- Exploration of hands on ways of crafting, design and development for traditional and digital platforms
- Strengthening our learning with critical perspectives and purposefulness
- Research into communities and contexts using participatory approaches
- Building multiple modes of expression for engagement in diverse disciplines
- Use of narrative structures and technologies to create communication
- Embodied approaches to investigate, interpret, engage with and translate narratives
- Lively debates, dialogue, sensitive and ethical questioning on a range of issues
- Independent and self-motivated learning
Capabilities
This course will enable students in their capability:
- to inform and communicate through narrative
- to interact and work with communities, contexts and limitations and sensitively negotiate boundaries
- to transact meaning with audiences and build context-sensitive practices
- to perceive gestalts, navigate complexity and negotiate intelligences through transdisciplinary engagement.
- for leadership as action in art, design and/or technology praxis
- for responsible creativity that emerges from social, ecological, ethical and learning design
- to emerge transdisciplinary practice with reflections on interdependence and co-existence
- to strategically work with emergent systems and chaos
Opportunities
The above mentioned capability sets could lead to opportunities such as:
- Employment in Design Studios, Advertising Agencies and the Publishing Industry
- Employment in the New Media and Software industry
- Employment in Media and Television Industry
- Employment in startups, small and medium enterprises, NGOs, and social and educational enterprises.
- You can become a contemporary art practitioner, entrepreneur, or design consultant.
- You can actively engage in emerging domains such as digital arts and new technology and storytelling in new formats.
- Pursue your research and continue to do a PhD.
- Develop your own projects and apply for grants.
- Some jobs profiles could be
Design Strategist, Project Manager – Community Programme Services, Entrepreneur- Visual Designer. Artist. Arts Manager, Design consultant, Educator, Social justice Coordinator, Multicultural program coordinator, Cultural Design Practitioner, Creative Director, Program Manager, Creative and Cultural Researcher, Storyteller, Systems designer/ Consultant, Design Consultant, Educational designer, Eco-artist/ Eco –Designer