The Design Village (TDV) is a non-profit universal design school with campuses in India and Italy, established in 2014. Over a short journey of a decade, TDV has built its reputation as a unique d-school advancing global engagement, social impact and sustainability in creative education. The school has 65+ faculty from world’s leading institutions and companies, who join hands to bring unmatched academic knowledge and cutting-edge exposure to its 400+ students.
TDV offers industry-centric B.Des and M.Des degree programmes in collaboration with O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) at its India campus. TDV and JGU’s partnership strengthens design education by combining TDV’s expertise in design thinking and industry-focussed learning, with JGU’s global academic standards
1. India’s only Design School founded by designers – BY DESIGNERS, FOR DESIGNERS:
2. B.Des (Hons.) Degree awarded by O.P. Jindal Global University
CREDIBILITY & RECOGNITION:
3. Locational Advantage in the Industrial Heart of Delhi NCR
Programme Details:
● Degree Offered: Bachelor of Design (Honours)
● Duration: 4 years (8 semesters), 240 credits
● Eligibility: Class XII Students / Passouts in any stream
● Entrance Process: TDV ACCEPTANCE CHALLENGE – Two-stage selection process to identify discerning individuals based on ability and motivation.
Stage I: Online exam to judge your creative aptitude, observation and comprehension skills
Stage II: Online meet-up to understand your alignment with our philosophy
1. Communication & Interaction Design
Emphasizes on the creative and technological abilities that enable designers to work across traditional and modern mediums, applying themselves to create print media as well as interactive digital products.
2. Fashion & Textile Design
Merges the two seemingly specialist fields of fashion and textile design with a focus on their inherent relationship, training students in designing and manufacturing clothing, material and technology of textiles etc.
3. Interior & Space Design
Focuses on the imagination and realisation of the built environment by imparting a creative mindset, technical skillset, and exposure of buildings, exhibitions, installations, public realm and other forms of space.
4. Product & Industrial Design
Trains students on the end-to-end product design process, right from understanding users, ideating solutions, creating prototypes, and delivering finished physical products like automobile, furniture, and consumer goods
5. Strategic Design & Management
Provides students the abilities to devise business decisions, innovate practices, grasp metrics, collaborate across teams, and embed design thinking at the core of business operations.
6. Transdisciplinary Design
Prepares designers to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries by integrating knowledge, methods and perspectives from diverse fields such as engineering, sciences and social sciences.
Programme Details:
● Degree Offered: Master of Design
● Duration: 2 years (4 semesters), 120 credits
● Bachelor Degree / Pursuing UG Final Year in any subject
● Entrance Process:
TDV ACCEPTANCE CHALLENGE – Two-stage selection process to identify discerning individuals based on ability and motivation
Stage I: Online exam to judge your creative aptitude, observation and comprehension skills
Stage II: Online meet-up to understand your alignment with our philosophy
1. Communication & Interaction Design
Emphasizes on the creative and technological abilities that enable designers to work across traditional and modern mediums, applying themselves to create print media as well as interactive digital products.
2. Fashion & Textile Design
Merges the two seemingly specialist fields of fashion and textile design with a focus on their inherent relationship, training students in designing and manufacturing clothing, material and technology of textiles etc.
3. Interior & Space Design
Focuses on the imagination and realisation of the built environment by imparting a creative mindset, technical skillset, and exposure of buildings, exhibitions, installations, public realm and other forms of space.
4. Product & Industrial Design
Trains students on the end-to-end product design process, right from understanding users, ideating solutions, creating prototypes, and delivering finished physical products like automobile, furniture, and consumer goods
5. Strategic Design & Management
Provides students the abilities to devise business decisions, innovate practices, grasp metrics, collaborate across teams, and embed design thinking at the core of business operations.
6. Transdisciplinary Design
Prepares designers to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries by integrating knowledge, methods and perspectives from diverse fields such as engineering, sciences and social sciences.
