‘Design’ as a means for development, for the future of India
Design is a plan or a visual representation of a vision. The design also helps people to gain an understanding of a vision. For a simple example, a person may know about a water bottle by looking at its sketch before the bottle itself is made.
People and people's interactions with the environment change from time to time. These changes are done through needs, thought processes, interests, and environmental changes. Over the past few decades, rapid growth in technology made a vast amount of information available; and this influenced people’s interactions, culture, food habits, leisure, or business travel at a much faster rate. In India, it is no different.
These changes are continuous and transform society from time to time. Although there are multiple ways one can think of channelizing these changes in order to have a positive outcome. In my opinion, it is to channelize these changes for the overall wellness of the living. In order to direct these changes, a lot of ideas or perspectives have to be communicated across. For example, the main job of faculty working in Education or Research institutions is to teach students by communicating with them about standard practices in fields like design, arts, law, engineering, medicine, or other fields.
Any such communication needs to be structured and organized for a clear understanding of an idea or a vision. In other words, a design document is required for development or as a means for exchanging ideas in the development process.
Considering India, I would like to see India which is much cleaner, healthier, happier, safer, and with improved supportive structures. Also, we need to consider supporting factors as well for the wellness of the society, where society can help each other and grow by supporting each other in Education, banking, finance, and health care sectors. Also, possible improvements could be seen in food, logistics, and manufacturing contributing to a better lifestyle.
Now as I expand design needs from humans, we can include animals, natural vegetation as well to improve the overall ecosystem to have a balanced environment for life. Thus, improving and maintaining places of India in order to promote tourism and attract tourists to come and visit India.
And as I further expand, I would like to see India improve its current position in the global landscape, global collaborations addressing topics like global warming, space travel, space exploration, and drug design. So, this is the expansion path for the far future of India. Of course, India is making so many advancements but I personally feel there is a lot of scope for improvement in terms of planning and design. From my perspective design by itself is a process or plan which could definitely help in focusing on various development areas of what we have discussed in the above paragraphs.
So, design by itself is a very powerful tool that provides a clear plan and also a visual representation of the vision, let it be the vision of a person or a company or a country, or even the vision of the entire earth. It also helps people to visualize and understand the plan of what is the vision we are having collectively as a society because the design has to inculcate the ideas of people when it comes to societal development. Once we inculcate these ideas of the design, the plan will be produced which then could be proceeded with the approval of community or community representatives. All of these things are part of the design, this tool could really help for the potential development of India or for any other place.
Design is a place where people could see the plan and people can imagine the collective vision of the society or the country and that vision is exciting the public in providing better life not only for himself but also for pears, for natural habitation for animals. In general, this motivates people, which is leading to the change in meeting the development vision and people work to achieve or to do the activities or to solve the problems in achieving that vision. There are no limits for design and people can design solutions for problems in society from a very small-scale problem to a large-scale problem that has to be solved by a company.
In conclusion for the wellness of people, animals, and natural vegetation need a better vision. From my point of the view, the design process will definitely help in creating a plan, a visual representation of the vision which in-turn potentially could motivate a lot of people who are a part of the society. Thus, channelizing the people’s energies and time in order to do problem-solving or tasks that are necessary in order to fulfill a certain plan, so that we meet the vision. That’s how design plays a major role in achieving crucial development.
