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Kalpana Subramanian

Kalpana Subramanian is an award-winning artist-filmmaker-educator from India and a PhD candidate at the Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo. Her research focuses on transcultural aesthetic approaches to the study of experimental film and media.

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Issue 141

Entangled Visions: The Birth of a Radical Pedagogy of Design in India

byKalpana Subramanian

India’s National Institute Of Design (NID) was built on radical educational practices traceable to the traditions of the Bauhaus, the Indian Report of 1958, and the alternative pedagogies pioneered by Rabindranath Tagore. Kalpana Subramanian details a history that outlines the root of this radical pedagogy – she critiques the contemporary market forces that are threatening to reshape the legacy of this institution.

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