The craft sector of the country acts as a magnifying glass into the diverse regional and socio-cultural

profiles of the country. Being the largest employment sector after agriculture, there is a growing
need for revival of theses dying techniques in the present day.

The centre aims at becoming a learner focused cultural community that serves as a perfect basis for
the personal development, professional practice and to help foster the creative minds of the youth. It
aims at promoting and nurturing the individuality of the pupil and to provide a platform that helps to
promote the talents and passion of the individual. The centre equips students with transferrable and
tangible assets which are main requisite in the present society such as such as creativity , innovation,
critical thinking, collaboration and adaptability .There by helping individual’s to decode their own
unique creative self, while also working with, inspiring and to be inspired by their own peers and
instructors.

It aims to contribute and promote the country’s craft sector, though collaborative work, encouraging
research by creating an interactive global level public private community that has a unique character
of its own. The students would be guided by professionals in their various fields of work. Through
local community interaction and workshops the institute aims at promoting their individuality and to
contribute to the society. Through up to date technology and with knowledge of the traditional skills
it enables them to make new innovations and to create solutions for the present day.

To understand the critical role of the crafts community and its integral relationship to the Indian
society.

- To enable students to understand the relationship between economics, culture and aesthetics,

- To enable students to explore the linkages between environment, craft traditions and society
through field studies,

- To develop a respect for the diversity of Indian craft traditions and to uphold the dignity of its
practitioners by understanding the difficulties that they face,

- To introduce Indian culture through the crafts, so that school students appreciate the variety of
skills and expressions of the Indian artist

- To provide students a creative aesthetic experience of the unique visual and material culture of
India and develop values of conservation, protection of the environment, resources and heritage of
the country,

- To enable students to understand the relationship between tradition and contemporary trends,
form and function, creator and consumer.

- To understand the processes of creating a craft object from start to finish,

- To equip students with the tools to extend craft traditions to wider applications through applied
crafts,

Courses offered:
Fired Material Design – Earthenware Stoneware terracotta and porcelain

Soft material Design –Textile, Paper and natural Fibres

Hard Material Design –Wood, Metal, Stone, cane and bamboo

How does the design facilitating : Multi disciplinary nature :

Use of the traditional know how