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Courses


Undergraduate Courses

DD 201 - Introduction to Design
DD 204 - Design Studio – II (Photography & Videography)
DD 313 - Art Design and Society
DD 316 - Digital Media in Design
DD 318 - Elements of Video
DD 3XX - Instructional design and multimedia
DD 401 - New Media Studies
DD 404 - Media Studies and analysis
DD 4XX - Design Project III
DD 413 - Design Seminar

Post-Graduate Courses

DD 501 - Design - An Introduction
DD 512 - New Media Studies
DD 507 - Design Project
DD 607 - Creativity & Innovation

New Media Studies

Study of History of modern visual and media cultures. Conventions and techniques of old media: rectangular frame, mobile viewpoint and montage. Relationship between language of multimedia and nineteenth century pro-cinematic cultural forms; Functions of screen, mobile camera, and montage in new media as compared to cinema; Theory of Cultural Interfaces. Study of Principles of New Media. Discrete representation, Numerical representation, Automation, Variability. Concept of new media object. Changing relationship of representation. Database as a genre of new media. Logic of remediation. Concept of digital dialectic. Digital Cinema and the history of moving Image. The new language of cinema. Forms of new media: Installations, Sound art, Net art. Free software movement and open source. New media art installation and cross-media practice. Media art as an intercommunicative process. Interactivity and interface: Models of interactive systems. Computation as an expressive medium. Aspects of Tactical Media. The Cyborg Manifesto.

Creativity and Innovation

Cognitive issues in creative thinking; Neurobiological studies of human brain lateralization with respect of creative thinking phenomena; Introduction to knowledge engineering and management; Modeling of Design Thinking and Tacit knowledge representation; Fuzzy thinking, vertical thinking, lateral thinking; Management issues in creativity and innovation; group versus individual creativity; Creativity techniques and tools; Brainstorming, Hypnologic imaginary, TRIZ method, Morphological analysis of ideas; Role of creativity in Innovation and Invention; Comparative studies of creativity in the Arts, Sciences, Engineering and Design; Future casting; Case Studies; Issues in Intellectual Property Rights.