The Design Village: Educating the Next Generation of Designers for Social Transformation
What if a design school were designed the way we hope designers will one day design the world: starting from people, place, planet and purpose rather than from convention?
In 2011, a small group of practiconers and academics set out to answer that question on the outskirts of Delhi. The result was The Design Village (TDV), an independent design school in Noida, India. It was built from first principles as a response to the gaps in design education and it now has a European campus in Lombardy, Italy. This book tells the story of that experiment. It is part manifesto,
