DRM Gurukooll 2024, 2nd Indian Summer School on Design Research, IIT Guwahati
‘DRM Gurukooll’ is as an annual initiative, held every summer at a different institution in India, with the objective to expose early career design researchers – PhD scholars and young faculty, to the vast landscape of design research and enable them in pursuing world class research into design. Furthering the collaborative efforts that led to the success of the first edition hosted by IISc Bangalore in 2023, the ‘DRM Gurukooll 2024: the 2nd Indian Summer School on Design Research’ was hosted by Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG), under the aegis of Design Innovation Centre IITG.
Garnering the national collaborative spirit, this year’s Summer School brought together 41 participants, from across 15 universities from all over India. Partnership and support was received from our fellow departments of design under the cooperation of DICs at IISc, IIT Hyderabad, IIT Delhi, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur and IIT Roorkee. Participants also joined from other institutes of importance, such as, National Institute of Design (NID), Delhi Technological University (DTU), NIFT, MIT-WPU, DY Patil University, Woxsen University. Further, eminent speakers and mentors also contributed towards the national vision on nurturing design innovation, which boasted the unique presence of having the 6 heads of top design schools of India, namely; Prof. Amaresh Chakrabarti from DM, IISc; Prof. Mamata Rao from NID Bengaluru; Prof. Prasad Onkar from DoD, IIT Hyderabad; Prof. Jyoti Kumar from DoD, IIT Delhi; Prof. Anirudha Joshi from IDC, IIT Bombay, and Prof. Sougata Karmakar, Head of DoD, IIT Guwahati.”
