A: As a new approach to design education, this course is tailored specifically for the urban realm, and brings together the study of the city and design in ways that encourage innovative, cross-disciplinary thinking and solutions to the problems we face in urban India.
This five-year bachelor program gives students a professional training that equips them to work as designers in the public realm, and to analyse the urban environment, its systems, and its multiple scales. Students will be taught to use design skills, analytical tools and knowledge of legal frameworks that are required to design public infrastructure, facilities and amenities, and policies and regulations that shape the built environment. To do this, they will learn to assess the interactions of political frameworks, social and cultural relationships, and economic dynamics with the physical landscapes and systems that form the city.