SLDF 2012 promotes Sri Lanka as the South Asian Education Hub
Marking a turning point in Sri Lanka’s mission to be South Asia’s education hub, Sri Lanka Design Festival 2012 will host the inaugural ‘Design Education in the 21st Century’ this November. Organized jointly by Sri Lanka’s international design campus AOD and the centre for UK-Sri Lanka education correlationsBritish Council, the forum brings down some of the most impressive names in global design education.
Some of these names include design icons from the UK; Prof. Jane Rapley – Dean of Fashion and Textiles, Central Saint Martin’s, Prof. Wendy Dagworthy – Head, School of Fashion and Textile, Royal College of Art, Patrick Gotellier – Head of Department of Design – University College Falmouth and Prof. Steven Kyffin – Dean of Northumbria University School of Design UK. These renowned educationalists will get together to discuss the building blocks in creating a future designer: Specific education, knowledge, skills, behaviours and characteristics; a perspective from UK and Sri Lanka that would enrich specific qualities of design education in South Asia and Sri Lanka.
The UK, known as the global design hub, is the home to some of the top educationalists who helped shape Britain?s winning design industries by educating, training and helping young minds to become competent designers who can impact an entire world. British Council, as the centre for UK-Sri Lanka correlations, especially in learning and language, is keen to facilitate the sharing of this design knowledge with Sri Lanka.
Tony Reilly, the country director for British Council Sri Lanka said “We see tremendous potential in Sri Lankan design and the important role of education in moulding Lankan design talent to meet global standards and requirements. For this, we want to bring down the very best from the world’s best design education institutes in the UK together with experts from this region and formulate the best practices for design education in South Asia. This would be the first step in establishing this island as a hub for design education.”
The forum invites registrations from educationists, designers, media, NGOs, Government education, Government innovation and research funders along with Industry Human Resource Managers, design suppliers, academic researchers of design, Academic Teachers of design, students from undergraduate to post graduate research level (Registration is Free but prior registration is required)
For more information on the forum, contact British Council, Amina M MRuwanpathirana on+94 114 521 542 or email amina.ruwanpathirana@britishcouncil.org. To register/online tickets for SLDF and more information contact www.srilankadesignfestival.com or the festival secretariat +94 11 5737303 at AOD design campus, 29, Lauries Road, Colombo 4 between 8.30 am – 5.00 pm Monday – Saturday.
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