National Institute of Design's first 'Vision Plus' conference

National Institute of Design's first 'Vision Plus' conference

Ahmedabad: As a first in the South East Asia, the National Institute of Design (NID) in the city will now be hosting an international conference on information design called 'Vision Plus 2010'.
'Vision Plus' is a series of conferences, dedicated to all aspects of information design supported by International Institute for Information Design (IIID).
While the conferences were usually held in European countries, this year Vision Plus 2010 will be held at NID from December 13 to 15. The event will be collaboratively designed, planned and organised with the Institute for Information Design at Japan (IIDJ).
Associate senior faculty and head of information technology at NID Rupesh Vyas who is heading the organizing team of the event said, "The initiative is part of the golden jubilee celebration of the institute this year. The event will be talking about information as a key factor to growth."
Talking about the significance of information design Vyas explained that a good information design can help execute many governmental schemes like the NREGA and others policies in a better way and thereby delivering better results.
Vision Plus 2010 will focus on three topics including healthcare, mobility and communities. The event plans to bring together a wide spectrum of interested and concerned people including people from international bodies, local representatives and those from the design community and academia from across the country.
Vyas said, "We are also looking forward to participation of both government and non government stake holders and people from the corporations in the event as well. Andreas Schneider of IIDJ is giving us significant support in the whole initiative."
The exercise as a whole aims to sensitize decision-makers on the relevance of information design competences for their strategic planning, enhance educational and professional practice, trigger collaboration projects, have presentations and demonstrations in a variety of formats and at the same time enjoy lively discussions and networking.
"The themes of vision plus 2010 is not new to NID as we have been organizing various workshops with the theme in the campus. Yet the upcoming event will add to the existing knowledge of the students of NID to make them responsible designers," Vyas said.

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