Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology (SMI)—formerly known as Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology—has pioneered transdisciplinary art and design pedagogy for over two decades. Srishti educates artists, designers and practitioners with an aim to inspire and encourage creativity. Integrating practice, performance, research and experimental pedagogy has enabled Srishti students always to remain ahead of the curve.
SMI offers a unique practice-based approach that blends design thinking, problem-solving, project-oriented, and place-based learning with new digital technologies. Students of Srishti collaborate and intern with a large variety of industries during their education, with art and design contexts in India and around the globe, with international companies, and also within urban and rural localities to understand one’s role in improving the social conditions of life. With a faculty of distinguished professionals and academicians, an experimental curriculum, and an emphasis on critical thinking, Srishti celebrates “the chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star” (Friedrich Nietzsche).
The recognition that we live in a world that is becoming increasingly connected, networked and interdependent, and thereby more complex by the day has significant implications for how we intervene to produce better outcomes for all, for the present, and enduringly and sustainably into the future.
There is now a greater recognition of the need to change our methods and be inclusive, collaborative, and transformational. Together, these capabilities will make a creative impact on a broader range of societal transformation opportunities in a systemic, multidisciplinary fashion, driven by sustainable human-centric values and fully leveraging the interdisciplinary potential of art, design, and technology to realize better futures.
Collectively and individually, from entry-level practitioners to working professionals and advanced practitioners, we are engaged in creative impact making. This image of a world where creative impact making is widely practiced envisions an individual practitioner who thrives in an environment of proactive change and impact making, having a transferable portfolio of capabilities that empower effective performance in a wide range of creative applications.