 Book Image Courtesy: Mandar Rane, IDC IIT Bombay | Book: The Design Journey of Prof. Sudhakar Nadkarni Author/Interviewer: Mandar Rane Design history conferences often echo with the laments of leaving out the 'peripheral' and postcolonial accounts. There have been attempts to ‘bridge the gaps’ in the last two decades first through the initiation of the International Conferences on Design History and Studies (ICDHS) and later in the year 2013 through the Design History Society’s first annual meet outside Europe at The National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad, India. Scholars have taken these opportunities to challenge the hegemony of the ‘centre’ by presenting the accounts from larger geographies of design on broader facets like craft, communication and architecture. However, comprehensive accounts of institutional history around design in postcolonial India have only been few. The recent ‘50-years retrospective’ by National Institute of Design Ahmedabad’s is one such monograph. So, here comes a version which voices another school of design from postcolonial India, Industrial Design Centre at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IDC), now approaching its fiftieth year of existence. Read further |
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